A coda to The Weekly Dig’s articles on Somerville politics from last year

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So, The Weekly Dig has posted a coda to their series on Somerville politics, based on a detailed rebuttal that was submitted to the newspaper by the City in December:

A Response to the City of Somerville

This is a follow-up to the articles they ran last year:

• The Somerville Files: Part 1: The Fixed Gears (DSLJ discussion)


• The Somerville Files: Part 2: Ghosts of Assembly Square (DSLJ discussion)


• The Somerville Files: Part 3: Rage Against The Machine (DSLJ discussion)


• The Somerville Files: Part 3.1: Update (DSLJ discussion)


• The Somerville Files: Part 4: The Man in the Mayor Suit (DSLJ discussion)

The more I read of DigBoston’s coverage of “sleazy” Somerville politics, the more convinced I am that if this is the best we can do for “scandal” in this town, then we seem to have solved all our real problems and are working down the list of nitpicking hayseed non-news trivialities.

Dig’s entire agenda seems to be “everybody seems to love this town, let’s expose the underbelly & take ’em down a few pegs”, so they had three reporters work at it for a year and came up with a series of stunning exposés on… zoning board meeting notes.

Are there any “real” news organizations left that can take a crack at this and let us know if there’s an actual story here? (Preferably, not in a series of long, bitchy articles spread over months and saying …not very much?) Once again, the Dig doesn’t seem to be qualified for the task.

[Hi! I don’t normally use LiveJournal — this is the first time I’ve logged in in forever — but Ron encouraged me to cross-post this here from Facebook…]