The Globe really is going overboard with this multi-part series on the life and career of Edward Moore Kennedy, Senior Senator from Massachusetts.
Other better bloggers than Humble Elias have discerned a eulogistic note in the series...I would just add worse than any platitudes the damn thing doesn't tell us anything new.
One could put up with the bloated novelistic length, but honestly every story, every contradiction, every tragedy and every triumph has been exhaustively covered elsewhere.
Vaudeville had a truism, do what you like but don't bore the audience...well the Globe here seems to think a sleepy readership is a happy readership.
I saw chuck out the facts and completely fictionalize the story a'la Citizen Kane...that might've opened up some possibilities.
Ah but the Globe thinks it is in the news business...except when Jeff Jacoby's column deals in the origins of the Jim Crow south or the New Deal...then a veil of sheer fantasy invades the paper worthy of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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