Barnicle story on Grantland

[Michael_ Gee]

Boston Magazine used to run a regular feature on crap Barnicle made up in his columns. For years. The Globe didn't care. It wasn't until they fired a couple of other writers for plagarism that Barnicle's practices got him in trouble. They couldn't fire the other ones and then not fire him when he got caught, which of course happened.
Then, just near the end of my Herald stint, it hired Barnicle, in the publisher's daft belief that the city remains predominately Irish Catholic and male.
To his considerable credit, when the 2005 buyouts and layoffs began, Barnicle immediately quit, stating he could afford to, and didn't to cause someone else to lose their job.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

My wife, who is not in the business and is often perplexed by our ways, was watching a spring training game with me. Barnicle was in the booth with the Red Sox announcers. I gave her a little of the background and she was like, "Why would they want him on the air?"

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Somewhere, in Heaven's version of Billy Goat's, Royko laughs uproariously at this carbon-copy pipsqueak.

We'll never forget.

 

[Boom_70]

Michael Vick killed dogs and was welcomed back. Does Barnicle ever get that chance?

 

[Versatile]

Michael Vick killed dogs and was welcomed back. Does Barnicle ever get that chance?

Vick's transgressions, however egregious, had nothing to do with his job. Pete Rose is a more apt comparison.

 

[rmanfredi]

Michael Vick killed dogs and was welcomed back. Does Barnicle ever get that chance?

I'm sure he'll have plenty of chances to kill dogs, but that's not the point...

 

[henryhenry]

Barnicle is a tremendous talent, but as pointed out on TBL, the two cardinal sins of journalism are don't make shirt up and don't plagiarize stuff. Barnicle has done both. Didn't he do both within a month of each other? God only knows how many times he did it before he got caught.

that was in 1998.
14 years.
he ripped off a few jokes from george carlin.
convicted murderers walk in less than 14 years.
plagiarism is not a capital crime.
give the guy a break.
jeez.

 

[Point of Order]

Am I the only person here not familiar with his past transgressions.

 

[Azrael]

Fabrication? Death penalty.

 

[Boom_70]

Fabrication? Death penalty.

Don't tell Joe Biden that.

 

[YankeeFan]

Fabrication? Death penalty.

+1

"Forgetting" to attribute a couple of jokes is bad. Making up stories? Done. Career should be over.

 

[Boom_70]

Fabrication? Death penalty.

+1

"Forgetting" to attribute a couple of jokes is bad. making up stories? Done. Career should be over.

But you can still be The Vice President.