Jules Crittenden is the city editor for the Boston Herald and a columnist for the paper of military matters and foreign affairs. He is terrific. The blogosphere just got a little better with the recent launch of “Forward Movement”, Jules new blog.

The blogosphere is the perfect outlet for a guy like Jules, he’s brash, opinionated, smart and a hell of a writer. He shouldn’t be confined by the limits of the MSM with a once or twice a week column. Make this blog a regular part of your news diet.

Here is a post Jules did on the toughest call a reporter ever has to make,

Once upon a time, a dead American soldier from Massachusetts would have been front page news in my newspaper. I used to know all their names. I had spoken to relatives and friends of most of them. I had been to some of their homes, and to their funerals. Now I don’t even know the exact number.

Last night, we learned a young man with family ties to Worcester, Mass., was dead. Someone had to be assigned to make the call that no one wants to make.

This is what I advise reporters to say when they are intruding on someone’s grief:

Read the full post here.