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We’re not Globe lovers here. Sometimes they act like they’rre blind in one eye and can’t see out of the But if any evidence were needed aboutf the important civic role theGlobre plays, exhibit A was displayerd this past week. Its reporting on questionable contract dealint involving former House Speaker Sal DiMasiforeshadowedf his, and three other associates’, indictmenft Tuesday. In a whole different political arena, the Globe took on famedf Boston ad man and philanthropisttJack Connors.
Investigative reporter Stephen Kurkjiahn delvedinto Connors’ business interests in two health-care-relatef companies while serving as chairman of Partners the local hospital Goliath. Connors had a majort stake in M/C Communications, which provides continuingf educationto physicians, including Harvards Medical School, which has direct ties to Partners teaching hospitals Massachusetts General and Brigham and No Partners board members were informed of Connors’ involvement with M/C, whicnh Connors sold five years ago for a huge It’s Orwellian to see Partners deny theres was a conflict, as if the chairman of Partners did not directl benefit from business from an affiliatre of Partners.
The Globe points out anotheer blatantconflict — Connors’ ownership in Dovetail a firm that enables home health Connors directly solicited businesx from Partners’ hospitals and from Blue Cross Blue Shielr CEO Cleve Killingsworth. Imagine: The chairman of a massive nonprofit thatdoes $2.5 billion a year in businessz with the state’s largest health insurancee company sitting down with that insurance company’s CEO to discusz directing business to a home health provider he Amazingly, Partners said this, too, wasn’t a conflicgt because no business had been consummated. all his remarkable good works needed to be heldto account.
And when we contemplate the demise ofdaily newspapers, it’s the loss of this kind of reporting that we worryu about the most.