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Renée Loth Takes a Breather – NYTimes Corp. Orders Globe Editorial to Support Casinos – With Poll

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According to credible sources the Boston Globe editorial board received orders from the Big Apple to support casino gambling. The Globe was also told to publish pro gambling stories. With their hearts not in it, the best reason the Globe could come up with in support is “do you have a better idea?”

The distress caused one editorial honcho, whose name I won’t mention (Renée Loth)  to take “a few days off”. People on Morrissey Blvd. are really bumming out over this. And they should.

Did this contribute to Steve Bailey’s abrupt departure?

Remember, casinos are all about money. Destination casinos pay big bucks to promote themselves and their never ending stream of entertainment.  Add three more of these to the two high spending and competitive casino advertisers already within a short drive for readers and NYT Corp. sees a huge increase in ad revenue. Not just Boston Globe and New York Times, but Worcester Telegram too.

And of course Red Sox can up bidding between five casinos for “Official Red Sox Gambling Den”. Thus making more money for minority Red Sox owner, New York Times, Corp.

Boston just ain’t Boston anymore..

Our Boston Globe has always been credible in their no good heavy-handedness. For instance, it was OUR local arrogant elitist newspaper when it helped destroy the city with its one sided coverage of forced busing. But hey, their ignorant cold hearts were in the right place, and they were OUR cold hearted, ignorant, elitist bastards.

Screw New York

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  2. That would explain the Globe’s complete reversal of opinion when it came to casino gambling….it must be the advertsiing dollars….the extra quarter must not be covering expenses!!!

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    p>I also wonder if they had anything to do with the shabby front page attacks on DiMasi….If you read them over a couple of times, the stories are really just full of speculation and inuendo (just like the nonsense NYC trip stories on the Gov)……but it makes sense to go after the guy that cost you all that advertsing money!

  3. …from Paul Krugman:

    Krugman up next. How did we get into this mess? We had just come out of the dot-com bubble, and so we should have known better. But people thought it was “different” this time … of course, it wasn’t. Why would it be different this time on housing? After all, we’ve had housing for 5,000 years. [Laughter] A few weeks ago, Carlyle Capital collapsed. [applause] They had 32:1 leveage — $32 of borrowed capital for every dollar of capital in hand. “This actually makes less sense than Pets.com did.”

    So how did this happen? First, everything is political. Krugman says he wrote an apolitical piece about the housing market and he was attacked for “just being against Bush.” However, if you take the housing price and compare it to the CPI, it was insane. It wasn’t a radical new technology — it was housing. There also was a “metapolitical” aspect: if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe that the economy will always go up, and if you think otherwise, you’re socialist. This attracted the people who were into “prestige.”

    In an economic sense, the New York Times is mostly fashion advertising with a little hard news wrapped around it. “The ads for the $5,000 handbags just bring the money in.” He quotes a financial blog that says bad things about the Bush administration and emphasizes with some incredulity that it’s a financial blog, not a political blog.

  4. This would be a fantastic story that could really blow the cover off the NYT’s destruction of the Globe… as well as explain their clear one-sidedness almost throughout this entire story. It absolutely could help explain Bailey’s departure, for sure. I’ll join with David: shoot me an email.  

  5. It really makes me think that we need to find another way to fund journalism, and figure out how to eliminate advertising all together.  I wonder what the Globe’s position would be on getting rid of advertising?  My eyeballs are not for sale, people don’t have a right to throw their message in front of me at every turn.

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