Best of Boston

1987 Best Moment, in Boston Journalism

There were so many of them, right? But if we had to choose, it was the night a grinch at the Globe scratched a mustache on a news photo of Governor Dukakis. Either that, or when Globe reporter Bella English wrote a heart-tugger about Boston tenants who were being victimized by condo spectators, only to learn later from a column by the Herald‘s Norma Nathan that the tenants in the Globe story resided in a building owned by Globe star reporter Ben Bradlee, Jr., and his wife, Martha, Channel 5’s chief correspondent.