Actually, these guys aren't really reporters, they're more like "columnists" (the difference being, if your cynical, that reporters are the only ones that report "facts").

First, Scott Van Voorhis, fresh off his hysterical "the Hancock Tower creates a 9,000 foot long shadow across the Boston Common" claim, now questions the practicality of building any more offfice towers, in Boston, at all.

Talk of a new wave of megatowers is also drawing some concerns. With major companies like Fidelity Investments pulling jobs out of Boston, there are real questions about where thousands of workers needed to fill megatowers would come from, executives said.

Tell you what. Call the Boston Herald tomorrow, or send Scott Van Voorhis an email, and ask him, which executives said this. Specifically. Ask for names. I doubt he can prove any executive said it. In fact, I think he made up that quote. I think he's "pulling a Barnicle".

If Scott Van Voorhis is afraid that Boston businesses won't be able to fill any new office towers, all he needs to do is saunter down the hall at the Herald, and talk to fellow "journalist" Brett Arends, who filed this contradictory report, apparently after attending the same press conference.

Downtown Boston could be on the brink of a new era of New York-style skyscraper construction following a policy shift by Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

New buildings would help “create some more vitality” in the city, he added.