Comments on: Tweeting from City Hall

By: aging cynic

aging cynic — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:52:12 +0000

Rob, not to be contentious, but stop 39 people walking by City Hall. Pay her TWO thousand a year for every person who knows who Mike Ross is and what he does for a living. I’m guessing she would prefer the status quo.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:52:55 +0000

LF, you don’t think the Council president should have a communications director? Really? He’s one of the most high-profile members of the city government. He’s frequently quoted, interviewed, etc. Most people realize you often need a media professional to coordinate this stuff for you. It’s nothing out of the ordinary and a usual practice. She’s making $39,000 a year, that is hardly a lot of money.

By: LFNeilson

LFNeilson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:27:33 +0000

mike: Tripp at least was somewhere in the fed gov — does anyone know where? This is the Mass. Convention Comm. and the Boston City Council. That was pork, and this is, well, pork.

By: John Robinson

John Robinson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:49:22 +0000

To be accurate, I was listening to most of the conversation, but as anyone who has talked to politicians knows, they can talk for hours without seeming to take a breath. And he had made his point — that we had been unfair — like, 10 minutes before. I got it. Expressed my disagreement and so the rest of the conversation was me letting him vent for a while.

(I don’t think he’s among my twitter followers or yours.)

By: mike_b1

mike_b1 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:12:03 +0000

LF, where were you when it was revealed Linda Tripp was making just under $100,000 a year as a government secretary — a secretary! — who apparently still had plenty of time to make tape-recordings of hours of conversation with a young co-worker named Monica?

By: Nial Liszt

Nial Liszt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:40:43 +0000

Budgets cut to the bone. More draconian cuts expected!

Is there a Draco corollary to Godwin’s Law?

By: LFNeilson

LFNeilson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:36:58 +0000

More noteworthy than the fact that they were on FB or Twit are their positions and salaries. $93k for communications director for the Mass. Convention Center? $39k for spokeswoman for the president of the city council? I’m sure the city would shut down without them?

By: Paul Flannery

Paul Flannery — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:01:30 +0000

Well said Dan. As you know, I was Amy’s editor at BoMag and she’s one of the few people who can engage in 10 separate things all the time. That’s just how she operates and she works tremendously hard. Low blow by the Herald.

By: amused

amused — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:18:07 +0000

What does it say about a purported “journalist” who, according to the facebook account that is claimed to be hers, is a big fan of Channel 7 news? I guess sensationalism is sensationalism no matter where you tweet it.

By: John A Keith

John A Keith — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:06:49 +0000

Gotcha journalism is alive and well.

She should stick it out; it’s a bit embarrassing and uncomfortable, to be sure, but so what? It’s going to be gone in the next news cycle.

Yes, some people are “always” in the public eye so need to be cautious.

Once it becomes the norm, no one will care.

Now excuse me. I have to go delete the photo of my in drag at the urinal at Sunday night’s party.