Media coverage of the Catholic Church in Boston is described by Joe Bergantino.

The former television reported says, “The church was covered, in both print and television, the way we covered a sports team. When Rose Kennedy died, we brought in a priest to do the play-by-play at her Mass. The church wasn’t covered the way we would cover the government . . . And, because the church was not transparent at the time, it was like covering the Kremlin.”