text: Technically you are correct, he is not a reporter but he is (from Wikipedia) "Benjamin Aaron Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator, columnist, author, radio talk show host, and a lawyer."
  As for "includes the hateful comments posted below the youtube video - comments clearly contrary to Globe guidelines" you would be right at home at Google where they are now locking people's accounts based on not liking the words in those people's Google Docs documents.