Tuesday, February 2, 2010
By Bruce Mohl
David Guarino, in a blog post on MS&L Boston’s PR Finish Line, praises the Boston Redevelopment Authority for releasing what he calls a pre-buttal to last week’s investigative reports on the agency by CommonWealth magazine and Fox 25 Undercover.
The reports focused on an unusual fee imposed by the agency on certain real estate sales and the overrepresentation of city employees in a BRA affordable housing program. To see our reports, go here and here; to see the Fox 25 reports, go here.
On the day the magazine was being delivered to subscribers but before Fox could air its first broadcast, the BRA issued a press release to its Twitter network laying out its own defense. The BRA press release for the most part stuck to the facts, albeit a one-sided version of them. But it was annoying to me, my colleague Jack Sullivan, and Fox reporter Mike Beaudet that BRA officials went public even before seeing Beaudet’s piece.
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