by B. » Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:51 am
It's a difficult time to write about the mob.
We used to have very few sources of new information and Capeci was the major one. We're spoiled here in that we have access to every book, article, etc. and we have great researchers who scrape FBI files and every other resource for obscure info. Hell even Bill Cutolo Jr. is stopping by under his own name to give his take.
There have been few members flipping the past few years and not many dramatic cases. The public isn't hungry for mob stories like they used to be and the people who are keeping track are f'n freaks like us.
I'm bored by a lot of his articles, too, but it's just how it is. It's hit Anastasia, too. When those guys completely retire or die there will be nobody to replace them. Scott, DiStefano, and other folks are trying, but Capeci and Anastasia are institutions due to decades as journalists who stepped up as the top dogs in the field at the right time.
It's a difficult time to write about the mob.
We used to have very few sources of new information and Capeci was the major one. We're spoiled here in that we have access to every book, article, etc. and we have great researchers who scrape FBI files and every other resource for obscure info. Hell even Bill Cutolo Jr. is stopping by under his own name to give his take.
There have been few members flipping the past few years and not many dramatic cases. The public isn't hungry for mob stories like they used to be and the people who are keeping track are f'n freaks like us.
I'm bored by a lot of his articles, too, but it's just how it is. It's hit Anastasia, too. When those guys completely retire or die there will be nobody to replace them. Scott, DiStefano, and other folks are trying, but Capeci and Anastasia are institutions due to decades as journalists who stepped up as the top dogs in the field at the right time.