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


Curious timing: Globe runs puff piece on AG Campbell three days after her older brother’s conviction on multiple rape and sexual assault charges

Sooner or later the Globe was going to have to focus on Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s political prospects heading into the fall general elections, if only so it could say it covered a non-election election that everyone knows the Dem incumbent will win. But did the Globe really have to run a puff piece on Campbell less than three days after her older brother Alvin was convicted on 21 counts of rape, sexual assault and other charges, in what even the Globe describes as a “harrowing weekslong trial” of a serial rapist posing as a ride-share driver to prey on drunk women? … Not even a passing reference to Alvin’s high-profile legal saga that ended late Thursday afternoon? Nope. … I’m not saying the Globe had to pull a Howie Carr regarding the Alvin-Andrea connection. But couldn’t the Globe at least bury a mention of the trial in today’s piece or perhaps even wait a week or two before running the political-activists-just love-her bonbon?… Gee, it’s almost as if they had the story waiting in the can for just such a moment …

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