By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


Were Healey and Wu booed at Fenway? It depends on what media universe you inhabit

Even Ted Williams regularly got booed at Fenway Park (with Ted reciprocating by spitting back at the cranky bandbox boo-birds). So I guess one could say Mayor Wu and Gov. Healey were in good company when they got booed during last Friday’s opening day ceremonies at Fenway. But … were they really booed? An alert Hub Blog reader noticed that the Wu-Healey booing was a reality in one media universe but not another media universe:

To me, it’s pretty indicative of the media landscape today:

1) An anti-Dem news event may or may not have happened.

2) Fox/NYPost/Herald take a far-right view of it.

3) The Globe/Boston.com don’t cover it at all.

The reader added: “Fox News tried to tie it (without any evidence) to Healey and Wu’s anti-ICE views.” … Videos of the dramatic, earth-shattering incident can be found here and here, among other places. … Get a load of this “Communists!” catcall. 

Update — From yet another reader: “They weren’t booing them. They were yelling – Wu! Wu! Wu!”

Update II — 4.7.26 — The Herald’s Joe Battenfeld is defending the right-wing-universe view of things. … Moi? I guess I’m one of those nothingburger types he mentions. The only thing I find remotely interesting about this boo-’em affair is who covered it and who didn’t.

Update III — 4.7.26 — Jon Keller is a fellow nothingburger type.

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