Mike Barnicle

Michael Barnicle (born August 24, 1944 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts) is a radio talk show host in the Boston area with a daily show on WTKK 96.9FM. He is a former newspaper columnist for the Boston Globe and a regular contributor to the television magazine show "Chronicle", MSNBC's Hardball, Imus In the Morning, Scarborough Country, and the Boston Herald. Mike Barnicle broadcasts weekday mornings on WTKK-FM.

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August 24 - 1944 - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - Radio - Boston - WTKK - Boston Globe - Television - MSNBC - Imus - Broadcasts

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In 1998, Barnicle was forced to resign from his position as a columnist at the Boston Globe when he was accused of fabricating quotations. Earlier in 1998, Barnicle's plagiarism of George Carlin's book, Brain Droppings was revealed. Notwithstanding these controversies, and perhaps because he consistently denied the accusations of fabrication, he did not become a "journalistic pariah" in the fashion of Janet Cooke and Jayson Blair. In 2001, Barnicle hosted a companion show to Hardball, known as Mike Barnicle or Barnicle. It was cancelled when it became too expensive to rent studio time at VideoLink in Watertown, Massachusetts, close to Barnicle's Lincoln home. During a stint at the New York Daily News, he was hired in 2004 by the Globes rival, the Boston Herald. He resigned in April 2005.

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1998 - Boston Globe - Plagiarism - George Carlin - Brain Droppings - Janet Cooke - Jayson Blair - 2001 - Hardball - Watertown, Massachusetts - New York Daily News - 2004 - Boston Herald - 2005

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For years Boston radio talk show host and former fellow Herald columnist Howie Carr has had an ongoing feud with Barnicle, calling him a "hack" and giving out his home phone number. Barnicle called Carr "a pathetic figure" and asked "Can you imagine being as consumed with envy and jealousy toward me for as long as it has consumed him?" http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/05/07/badboys/

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Many years earlier, Barnicle appeared in Michael Ritchie's film The Candidate.

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Michael Ritchie - The Candidate

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