Remember the days of Peter Gammons hot stove comments in the Sunday Globe it took a while to read???.. never could figure out where and how he got all that info.. then there were a host of others who were very good also... McDonough, Montville, McMullen and Bob Ryan.. they were all knowledgeable and reliable.
My humble opinion of how we went from the best to the worse was that after BB, Doc, Stevens and other really good coaches began to control the situation and did not bow to the media, the media got really, really butthurt and the predictable backlash began starting with Ronnie Borges and continuing to this day..
As the media lost their reverence and their place in Boston Sports Hierarchy, they reacted by turning into adversaries.. also think it is a sign of the times, that despite our overall sports success talk radio is willing to jump on the hate bandwagon to further their own agenda.. which seems to sell and there are plenty of buyers.