On the Death of TV News Part Three: If You Don’t Like the News, Make the News

Vincent J. “Jimmy the Bear” Flemmi, originally uploaded by WBUR.

Third in a series

Somewhere and occasionally in this alternative, non-news universe, I managed to lay claim to my share of legitimate stories or subversively slip content by the producers.

He Should Have Taken the Stand

Courtroom One Gavel, originally uploaded by Joe Gratz.

Click here for a selection of Boeri’ stories on Bulger, Connolly & the Boston Mob.

John Connolly, the one time star of the FBI’s war on organized crime who was convicted of second degree murder yesterday, has been calling me collect from prison for the last year of so. I’m waiting for him to call me today. Now that he’s likely to spend the rest of his life in prison, I figure he’ll be calling sooner or later. In between his endless campaign to overturn his first conviction—on charges of corruption and of giving “Whitey” Bulger a head start before the cops could arrest him—which took up most of Connolly’s first six years in prison, and his new campaign to overturn this conviction, he no doubt will be sending me still more letters.