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Non-disclosure strikes again
BY DAN KENNEDY
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Scott Greenberger’s page-one story in Tuesday’s Boston Globe on the opening of the so-called Big Concourse at Fenway Park — complete with two photos and two diagrams — was pretty effusive. But Steve Buckley’s column in the Boston Herald, which, with two photos, took up most of a page in the sports section, was even more enthusiastic. "It’s all dazzling, and the Red Sox have every right to be proud of what they have done," wrote Buckley. In other words, yes, it was a legitimate story — a feel-good feature for a slow news day in August. So what was missing? Repeat after me: a disclosure in the Globe story that the paper’s corporate parent, the New York Times Company, is a part-owner of the Red Sox — and thus, in some small way, the Globe was reporting on the doings of one of its business partners. Many readers already know it. It’s boring to have to keep repeating it. But it’s necessary.
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