Dean Johnson gets shafted

[Bill O'Neill]

Donna Halper wrote:

> Okay fine, now I've heard everything.  I think we would all agree, no 
> matter what our political persuasions, that Dean Johnson, the media 
> critic for the Boston Herald, has always been fair and unlike a 
> certain former columnist for the Globe, he is pretty accurate.  I just 
> heard from Dean (we've been friends for years) and he is really 
> upset-- they've cancelled his radio column and after 20 years of doing 
> it, I fail to see why it got the axe.

That is ridiculous of the Herald to axe Johnson.  I agree that Dean is a 
rare talent in media & entertainment reporting.  (He even interviewed me 
in 1982 and even spelled my name right.)

Bill O'Neill