Coming back to Dan Gillmore for a moment, he writes “Another reason to be skeptical is modern journalism’s equally unfortunate tendency of assigning apparently equal weight to opposing viewpoints when one is backed up by fact and the other is not, or when the ‘sides’ are overwhelmingly mismatched.”

That is often done in the name of “objectivity.”

One friend got on Google+ and commented “I feel like I’m at a nightclub at 9pm.”

The discussion fell under the heading of keeping and cultivating talent in all of Massachusetts. But as time went on it was clear that “Massachusetts” in this context, meant Boston and Cambridge. At one point they showed a video, shot in Harvard Square, of students talking about what they wanted, which included cheaper urban housing and more hours for the T. Those are issues that clearly only mean something inside of 128.

In fact, during the panel discussion Paul English was asked if the fact that his company was in Concord was a deterrent for top talent.

So yes, the discussion became something different, which is “how do we keep talent in Boston.” I believe that there is more we can do.