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[A Joseph Ross]

He wouldn't have been surprised.  The Herald was always a Republican 
paper.  In any event, he apparently had little to do with getting the 
WHDH-TV license taken away.

On 8/12/2015 9:09 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> Joe Kennedy suffered a stroke in 1961 and some in the family suggested 
> that his anger over negative coverage of Ted running for Senator 
> contributed to the stroke.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 12, 2015, at 7:59 PM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com 
> <mailto:joe@attorneyross.com>> wrote:
>
>> I'm glad to see that there is still a Phoenix website, keeping 
>> articles like this available.
>>
>> From my reading of the article, Joseph Kennedy may have been the 
>> power broker in the Herald getting the license, but it seems to have 
>> been Tip O'Neill who was the power broker in getting the license 
>> taken away.
>>
>>
>> On 8/12/2015 12:56 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>>> It was all politics and Joseph Kennedy was the power broker. If the 
>>> Herald could get Jack's book a Pulitzer Prize, Joe would deliver 
>>> Channel 5. That happened. .
>>>
>>> But the Herald then went back to attacking the Kennedy's and the 
>>> family aligned with the Globe.
>>>
>>> This is a good read on the entire mess
>>>
>>> http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/documents/00469256.htm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:20 PM, A Joseph Ross 
>>> <joe@attorneyross.com <mailto:joe@attorneyross.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I remembered the ex parte contact, but I thought that was the
>>>     reason for the re-opening of the license proceeding.  They held
>>>     a whole new proceeding to award the license as a new station
>>>     application, rather than as a renewal, and WHDH was allowed to
>>>     apply.  It's my memory that when the Commission awarded the
>>>     license to Boston Broadcasters, they acknowledged WHDH's
>>>     excellent record as a broadcaster, but said that since this was
>>>     an original proceeding, not a renewal, WHDH got no credit for
>>>     its record, and the things Boston Broadcasters promised to do
>>>     made it the better applicant.
>>>
>>>     The whole thing was simply political, I've always thought.  A
>>>     Democratic administration taking the license away from a major
>>>     Republican newspaper, to benefit the Democratic-oriented Globe.
>>>
>>>
>>>     On 8/11/2015 7:22 AM, Sidney Schweiger wrote:
>>>
>>>         "I'm probably missing something, but I don't recall an issue
>>>         of lying on an application regarding Channel 5."
>>>
>>>         The Herald-Traveler Corporation failed to disclose an
>>>         illegal ex-parte communication between an officer of the
>>>         applicant and an FCC commissioner...the title of Sterling
>>>         Quinlan's book about the Channel 5 case, "The Hundred
>>>         Million Dollar Lunch."  Supposedly the commissioner refused
>>>         to discuss the case at that lunch, but the appearance of
>>>         impropriety was enough to eventually deny the H-T the license.
>>>
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