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This week is one of those weeks when you find out the benefit of making new friends in high places. Well, let me be more specific. I’m not talking about friends with high political standing.…

Twenty-four years ago, Emily Rooney — whose long-running media-criticism program, "Beat the Press," on which I was a panelist, was canceled last week by GBH News — was just beginning a new phase of her career, as host and executive editor of the news and public-affairs program "Greater Boston." I wrote a piece for The…