Whoever edits the Globe decided that the most important story to Boston readers this morning was “Putting the Dalai Lama on a pedastal” — judging from their above-the-fold front page.
Real newspapers like the Washington Post and New York Times reported “New Interrogation Details Emerge” and “Memos spell out brutal C.I.A. mode of interrogation“.
Today’s completely bone-headed Globe front page is why the paper is, properly, dead. It exemplifies editorial decisions that insult and attempt to infantilize me, the reader. A chair being built for the Dalai Lama is not even on my list of interests, never mind priorities, this morning. The MGH story merits an item in the “Metro” or “Business” section, perhaps.
The best use of today’s “newspaper” is starting the charcoal for tonight’s barbecue. To the executives of the Times and the Globe reading this: pull the plug. Now. Free the oppressed journalists that you must have locked in cells on Morrisey Boulevard, and then escape to Dubai or someplace.
Check out the front page… nothing. This is a great example of how the MSM can be biased outside of their editorial pages. Would this happen to a million-man march or would the cover of the Globe be plastered with pictures, reports and special “heart warming” stories????
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p>I can’t believe I am agreeing with BrooklineTom on ANYTHING but it is time for someone to stick a fork in the Boston Globe (I could see it out my bedroom window growing up, played football/street hockey in their parking lot).
Three hundred thousand people (according to Nate Silver) is a decent, but not wholly impressive turnout given the outlay of resources spent to promote it. On the other hand, we’re seeing roughly the same criteria that was used when the Globe downplayed anti-xenophobia and anti-war protests earlier this decade that had 10X as many participants.
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p>It seems the Globe is in a netherworld where it doesn’t benefit from the upside of being owned by the Times, but pays for the absentee incompetence of the management.
There have been many times where significant events occur from so many differing areas and the Globe will somehow find an obscure story to headline. Why? What happening to reporting the news… the news we care about?
An annual anti-tax protest pales in comparison to the real-world events of any given day, but as they happen in places with difficult-to-pronounce names, they’re ignored by the press anyway.
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p>And if we just reported the news people care about, American Idol would own the headlines.