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Another right-wing fishwrap for Manchester

by: Peter Sullivan

Mon Nov 03, 2008 at 14:24:30 PM EST
Good lord. The Manchester Express is now using Joe Kelly Levasseur as its city hall reporter.

Naturally, his first column contains half-baked screeds against his usual list of political enemies (Ray Buckley, Betsi DeVries, and myself), as well as a "news" item about Red Wheeler's suit against Jim Hardy that fails to mention the fact that Joe is the attorney in the case.

Somewhere, William Loeb is smiling.
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Another right-wing fishwrap for Manchester | 7 comments
That sounds ridiculous (0.00 / 0)
Isn't the Manchester Express supposed to be like the chic, alternative to the Union Leader? I'm not familiar with it. Is it fairly mainstream?

"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America." Dwight Eisenhower
The Express is a Jekyll & Hyde creature (0.00 / 0)
The paper's publisher, Jody Reese, fancies himself the voice of the suave, artsy young professionals.

Unfortunately, he's the cheapest guy on the planet.

The previous city hall reporters, Jack Kenney, Jennifer Nickulas, and Dan Magazu, all bought into this silly notion called "getting paid". That's why Magazu bolted for the Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise, Nickulas is doing public relations work, and Kenney was let go.

Levasseur is willing to work for free. He has plenty of money, so he's really looking for a soap box and a scrap of credibility.


America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. -Harry Truman

Speculation (0.00 / 0)
I think a lot of these startup papers, like Boston's Metro, throw the door open to any number of lunatics. So if it's any consolation, JKL is likely contributing for next to nothing.
They had a good staff to start with (0.00 / 0)
and wooed away most of the competition, from the UL's attempt at an arts paper, the Mirror (now refigured as a kind of a Ladies' Home Journal-lite) but it wasn't just the wanting to get paid, it was the problems with lack of direction and the fact that Reese just looked at it as a cash cow, from what I hear through the graphics grapevine...
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Sheesh-- (0.00 / 0)
But then I stopped reading it back when they took Rich Gerard on board, 'cause I had more than enough of Richie G's winning ways when we were both riding the same bus to West High School.

Reese despises Levasseur and mocks him in private (I've heard him do it), which makes this even funnier. Of course he also despises and mocks Gerard, too. I doubt there's anybody in the world he doesn't despise and mock behind their backs, which upon reflection makes him a perfect fit for Gerard, since that was his stock-in-trade at West...

In some places (0.00 / 0)
around the country, while traveling, I've come across half-sheet arts and entertainment papers like the Hippo and Manchester Express that are entirely syndicated national content, no local stuff at all except for the advertisements.
And a historical perspective (4.00 / 1)
Curiously enough, this proliferation of small papers is somewhat like the way it was a hundred years ago, when The Manchester Union and The Manchester Leader were separate papers and there were several others.

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