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<a href="/biography/mike-barnicle">Michael Barnicle</a> was born on October 13, 1943 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Mike works as a print and broadcast journalist as well as a social and political commentator. He is currently a senior contributor on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

Inspiring Start of the Journey

Mike was raised in Fitchburg, Massachusetts and graduated from Boston University in 1965. Mike had an early brush with fame that would shape the rest of his life. He had the opportunity to volunteer for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy</a>’s 1968 presidential campaign. He didn’t just help out in his home state of Massachusetts. He also traveled to different states to promote the campaign. Mike was heavily involved in politics and social issues from an early age. The experience was a great learning tool for Mike as it let him learn about the government first hand. Mike took it hard when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy">Kennedy</a> was assassinated because the brutal truth of politics was revealed to him. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy</a> was a great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy">man</a> that stood up for great causes. The fact that someone or a group of people conspired to murder him to prevent him from being president confirmed that there were malicious people in the country that did not want peace and prosperity for the citizens of the country.

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy">Kennedy</a> family thought enough of Mike to invite him to <a href="/biography/robert-redford">Robert</a>’s funeral. The Requiem Mass was held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. He accompanied the 21 car funeral train that rode to Arlington National Cemetery. It was a tragic day that gave Mike the courage to become a warrior for justice. He would not stay silent, he would use his words and ideas to bring awareness to the American people.

Journalism and Broadcasting Career

In a <a href="/biography/robert-redford">Robert Redford</a> film called The Candidate, Mike appeared in a small role. Mike got to know <a href="/biography/robert-redford">Robert</a> really well and was invited to his home in Utah. While there, Mike was asked to write a column for The Boston Globe. He would end up writing the column from 1973 to 1998, an impressive 24 year run. The column initially got praise for coverage of the political and social upheaval which rolled the Boston when the city instituted the mandatory court-ordered school desegregation plan in the 1970s.

Mike has written over 4000 columns for multiple major news publications including The Boston Herald, New York Daily News and The Boston Globe. He gained prominence after writing columns on the working class of Boston. After he started to earn a reputation as a talented writer, other media outlets like Time Magazine, Esquire, ESPN Magazine, The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post hired him to write articles for them.

Since 1986, Mike has been a regular contributor to the Boston television news magazine, Chronicle on WCVB-TV. Mike has been featured on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and NBC's Today Show where he presented news and feature segments. Mike has been featured on many TV news programs including PBS's <a href="/biography/charlie-rose">Charlie Rose</a>, the PBS NewsHour, CBS's 60 Minutes, ESPN, and HBO sports programming.

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Social Change

Mike wrote a book called Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in The lives of Three American Families which won him a Pulitzer Prize. J Anthony Lukas said that Mike gave a voice to the residents of Boston who were not happy because of Boston school desegregation plans in the 1970s.

Mike became a strong voice for New England. His columns were a mix of the pointed criticism about the failure of bureaucratic and government and the personal stories of the people who were struggling in raising their families.

When he was interviewed for Chronicle on WCVB Channel 5’s special program JFK 100 Centennial Celebration, Mike had harsh words for the modern generation, “The first Catholic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson">president</a> being elected, the assassination, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a>, the Great Society, our plunge into Vietnam. The sadness of history and the way we regard history today is that too many young people know more about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga">Lady Gaga</a> than they do <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>.” Mike could only look on with disappointed eyes as he watched presidential candidates go from the highly intelligent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy</a> to the circus act of <a href="/biography/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>. He felt that the apathy of the modern generation is what allowed someone like <a href="/biography/donald-trump">Trump</a> steal the presidency. If the public was informed of American policies and issues, they wouldn’t have voted for <a href="/biography/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>. Some critics of Mike said that he should not blame the current generation for being ignorant because the blame falls on their elders who neglected to teach them about right and wrong.

Love of Baseball

Mike is a true resident of Boston because he is a huge fan of the baseball team, the Boston Red Sox. When <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/mike-barnicle-shares-his-memories-l">asked by MSNBC about the relationship the residents of Boston have with their old baseball stadium, Mike said</a>, “I think, in large part, it’s because of the permanence of the facility itself. When you consider the fact that we live in a time now where people move almost relentlessly. Very few people live in the same house they move into when they’re married or the same neighborhood when they’re married. Very few people certainly live in the neighborhood they grew up in. We change all sorts of things in rapid time. We sit here in front of TV sets with clickers in our hands, and change channels. We change spouses and partners; divorces are epidemic considering to what the divorce rate was 30 or 40 years ago. All of these things that we’re used to today, these elements of change that are around us, to some people and maybe to most people at some level within them, can be kind of disconcerting. Like ‘Jeez, that place used to be a drug store when I grew up.”

Personal life

Mike is a married to his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Finucane">wife</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Finucane">Anne Finucane</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Finucane">Anne</a> is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Finucane">vice chair</a> of Bank of America. She has a very high and prestigious job so only a well balanced man like Mike was able to win her heart and her commitment in marriage. They live in Lincoln, Massachusetts together and have had four children throughout their marriage.

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