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Published Thursday, September 22, 2005 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

BIG UPS FOR MY COLLEAGUE, MICHELE McPHEE: In the latest issue of the Boston Phoenix, Mark Jurkowitz applauds my co-worker, Michele McPhee, for her new Monday police beat column in the Herald, and finally gets around to smacking the Globe for its Sidekick daily insert. McPhee deserves all the plaudits. She always tells me how much I produce for the paper, but my output is nothing compared to the daily load she carries for the front news section of our tab. As for Sidekick, I haven't been able to figure out what the Globe was trying to prove. When the Globe first announced the new configuration, we were led to believe that Sidekick could exist separately from the rest of the paper and even be sold that way. But really, it's just a mess. Now if they turned the entire Living/Arts section into a tab, that'd be something.