The Boston Globe Columnist Jokes That Boston Herald Would Sooner Send Them a Car Bomb Than a Cocktail

The Boston Herald — the tabloid competitor to The Boston Globe that has published columns referring to its broadsheet rivals as “pampered pukes,” among other things — spewed its usual venom at Globe columnist Kevin Cullen this week, according to an email obtained by FishbowlNY.

Or so the original email said.

Turns out the story was a joke, FishbowlNY has now learned, for which Cullen later apologized.

“Kevin’s email to colleagues was a joke,” Ellen Clegg, a Globe spokeswoman, told us, “and he has called Herald editor Joe Sciacca to apologize.”

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