The Boston Globe conducted own ‘dirty war’ on free press
The Globe has shut down more newspapers in Boston than Donald Trump.
Now the Globe is campaigning for a free press.
The Globe covertly used its political columnists and reporters to pressure future House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill of Cambridge and other Massachusetts political figures to persuade the FCC to deny the Herald Traveler the license. It worked.
On March 19, 1972, the FCC ordered the Herald Traveler to surrender its license to Boston Broadcasters and the new WCVB-TV. Two weeks later the Herald Traveler folded. The Globe destroyed a competitor. A free press voice was lost, hundreds were thrown out of work, and the new TV owners got rich.
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