POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook Boston MEDIA’s Friday quake — A PRIMARY challenge in 14th Suffolk — BAKER staffs up campaign
12/11/2017 07:07 AM EDT By Lauren Dezenski ( ldezenski@politico.com ; @LaurenDezenski) with Rebecca Morin ( rmorin@politico.com ; @RebeccaMorin_) WELCOME TO MONDAY, MASSACHUSETTS. THE DAY THAT SHOOK THE BOSTON MEDIA - Friday was a watershed moment for the Boston media landscape, delivering unexpected twists that by the end of the day left lingering questions about the city's composition as a two-paper town. The day started with controversy about the Boston Globe on an unexpected front: Popular morning sports talk radio show hosts Kirk and Callahan on-air sought to address the growing rumors about an unnamed Globe reporter who left the paper following unspecified sexual harassment accusations. After an hour of talk, Kirk and Callahan did not directly name the individual, "though they managed to get it out there indirectly," as Boston media watcher Dan Kennedy put it , and ramped up speculation about how the Globe would address it. Ho...