Boston Magazine
Critics of Herald
Inside Track gossip columnists
Gayle Fee and
Laura Raposa accuse the women of being mean-spirited for the sake of it and resorting to questionable methods to get a good item. One PR person tells
John Gonzalez: "They're a microcosm of all that’s good and evil with the journalism world." Fee says: "We've been doing this for 15 years. So if we write 60 items a week, times 50 weeks a year, that's 3,000 items per year. Times 15 years -- that's, what, 45,000 items? We’re gonna make a few mistakes."