The Boston Globe needs to look up the definition of hypocrisy.

We’ll do it for them: it’s “the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform.” The latest glaring example is the controversial White Stadium project.

The Globe fails to include in all stories about White Stadium in Franklin Park that Globe CEO Linda Henry is an investor in the women’s soccer league driving the project.

The Globe’s last story on White Stadium does not mention that key element. Nor does a recent exposé on “Josh Kraft’s financial entanglements” state that Linda Henry, the wife of big Globe boss John Henry, is, to use their phrasing, entangled in the White Stadium rehab.

This fact matters because the stadium rebuild will cost Boston taxpayers $100 million, and that’s just the current estimate. The premise of the Globe’s Kraft story was the potential cost to taxpayers to secure World Cup matches next year. Josh Kraft, son of Patriots owner Robert Kraft, is running for mayor of Boston.

Here’s the point. Both the World Cup and a women’s soccer team have the potential to boost the local economy. Kraft isn’t running from that fact. So why is the Globe?

The bulldozers are already ripping up White Stadium to make it suitable as the home of Boston’s entry into the National Women’s Soccer League. The Boston Unity Soccer Partners is fielding a local team and they have some big-money investors. Linda Henry is one of them.

The hefty price tag, along with the Wu admin’s admissions that the city taxpayer tab may climb even higher with further cost overruns, has raised questions about who stands to benefit most from the project. That’s what we wrote on Sunday.

Transparency is not selective, or at least it shouldn’t be.

Readers have a right to know that Linda Henry, who has a lot of pull at her paper, is an investor in the White Stadium project. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a champion of the stadium rebuild, is running for reelection against Josh Kraft.

That’s putting all your cards on the table. The cliché fits.

Yes, a new White Stadium will benefit city student-athletes. The park will be modernized in the process and this could all help Franklin Park’s appeal. But it comes with a cost. The $100 million tax hit — if it doesn’t climb higher — is a big ask.

The Herald dug into this story and we’ll keep at it. Linda Henry’s long reach does not extend to our door.

A spokesperson for Boston Unity confirmed the names of nine investors and also directed the Herald to a July 2024 Boston Globe op-ed written by four of them. They state, in part: “By pooling Boston Unity Soccer Partners’ $50 million with the city’s planned $50 million contribution in the stadium, we will not only create a state-of-the-art athletic facility, but the project will also generate an estimated 500 jobs in construction and help launch careers in sports management via paid internships for local students.”

That split is now $100 million for city taxpayers and in that ballpark for Boston Unity, according to the latest estimates.

That’s the math. We’ll keep our calculators handy since we don’t trust the Globe to do the same for readers.

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Rehabilitation work has started on Franklin Park’s White Stadium. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)