WSJ's Levitz Omits Dem Party Connection in Story on 'Whitey' Bulger Ob

Ken Shepherd
July 1st, 2011 4:58 PM
Yesterday mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger -- captured last month with $800,000 in his possession -- was granted the right to retain taxpayer-funded counsel by a U.S. Magistrate judge Marianne Bowler, who "appointed high-profile Boston criminal-defense lawyer J.W. Carney Jr. as Bulger's public defender," Wall Street Journal's Jennifer Levitz reported in today's paper. Bulger, you may recall, is…
 

WaPo Notes Dem Party Connection in 'Whitey' Bulger Arrest Story... In

Ken Shepherd
June 24th, 2011 4:24 PM
"TV, Twitter were Boston mobster's undoing" the below-the-fold page A1 Washington Post headline informed readers this morning. In the 21-paragraph story that followed, Post staffer Jerry Markon detailed how the FBI closed in on the alleged serial killer and wanted mob boss. Yet Markon waited until the very last paragraph to note James "Whitey" Bulger's familial connection to Bay State…