As told by editor Brian McGrory to the Washington Post (with screenshots).
marcus-gralysays
How the mighty have fallen; the once respectable Globe resorting to content mills to fill their webpage.
smalltownguysays
For a long time I’ve jokingly referred in this blog to a new globe masthead that reads, “Owned by Moguls, Written by Interns.” Joking aside, this is not good.
1. We need the Globe (or something like it) to help expose corruption and advance decent policy choices.
2. The Globe not only needs a business plan to survive these perilous times for print media (and that, of course, means more on-line presence) but it also needs a credibility plan to which resources are devoted.
3. Brian McGrory’s comments indicate that at least some of the Globe executives don’t have a clear idea of the implications of the technology they are increasingly wedded to. That some content resides “deep in the web site” is no guarantee that it will emerge front and center at any time. This morning I checked Krugman’s blog, clicked on the Breitbart link he provided, then clicked on the Boston.com link that the Breitbart site provided, and, bingo! There it all was. And these links were still active well into the morning until people like Eric Wemple of the Washington Post emailed or called to alert the Globe people what was happening.
This un-checked material wasn’t on the Boston.com “Living” pages, it was on the FINANCIAL pages for crying out loud.
The moguls need to be sure that there are at least enough interns at work to monitor what’s going out over the Globe’s masthead.
Ryansays
this is one of my favorite things to ever happen on the internet.
On another note, though… wow has the Boston Globe fallen. That the story which appeared on its site ever appeared at all is even more damning than the fact that Brietbart ran with it.
The Globe has a responsibility to make sure every article posted on its site is read by someone on its staff before being posted — and clearly this one never was, because it was absurdly laughable and obviously false.
Mark L. Bailsays
for Reuters, has written and spoken about the need for reporters to learn to read, rather than write, better:
journalism is becoming much more conversational. It started with the rise of the blogs, and if blogs are now slowly dying out, that’s only because the conversation has overtaken them. It’s moved to Twitter, and Facebook, and many mainstream websites, too: the web is social now. You no longer need a blog to be part of the conversation; you don’t even need a Tumblr. Everybody is a publisher now, and all these new networks have helped to create a new vibrancy in public discourse….the biggest thing that’s missing in the journalistic establishment is people who are good at finding all that great material, and collating it, curating it, adding value to it, linking to it, presenting it to their readers. It’s a function which has historically been pushed into a blog ghetto, and which newspapers and old media generally have been pretty bad at. And of course old media doesn’t understand blogs in the first place, let alone have the confidence or the ability to incorporate such thinking into everything they do.
Just go to the “Search” box on Boston.Com, and type “Krugman”. The very first story headline that appears says:
Paul Krugman Files Chapter 13 Bankrutcy – Finance – Boston.com
The link is broken, but they are still showing that headline!
Hey, Brian McGrory, you are losing credibility.
jconwaysays
As Colin Powell put it when he endorsed Obama back in 08, so what if he was a Muslim? So what if Krugman did have to file bankruptcy?
I worked for nearly three years at a bankruptcy law firm and the vast majority (60%) of our clients were the victims of frankly immoral and illegal ponzi schemes endorsed by big banks and their colluders in the Bush administration OR were filing medical bankruptcies. In both cases they are victims not losers. I dislike the notion that the right would lie to discredit Paul Krugman, but I dislike the notion that even if he had filed bankruptcy his Nobel prizes and economic research suddenly eviscerates. Economic literacy and ones personal financial situation are entirely unrelated.
Frankly if a Nobel winner had to file bankruptcy on his house or because of his health it would be an indictment on our society, not on the professor.
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http://jimromenesko.com/2013/03/11/note-to-boston-com-krugman-isnt-bankrupt/
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As told by editor Brian McGrory to the Washington Post (with screenshots).
How the mighty have fallen; the once respectable Globe resorting to content mills to fill their webpage.
For a long time I’ve jokingly referred in this blog to a new globe masthead that reads, “Owned by Moguls, Written by Interns.” Joking aside, this is not good.
1. We need the Globe (or something like it) to help expose corruption and advance decent policy choices.
2. The Globe not only needs a business plan to survive these perilous times for print media (and that, of course, means more on-line presence) but it also needs a credibility plan to which resources are devoted.
3. Brian McGrory’s comments indicate that at least some of the Globe executives don’t have a clear idea of the implications of the technology they are increasingly wedded to. That some content resides “deep in the web site” is no guarantee that it will emerge front and center at any time. This morning I checked Krugman’s blog, clicked on the Breitbart link he provided, then clicked on the Boston.com link that the Breitbart site provided, and, bingo! There it all was. And these links were still active well into the morning until people like Eric Wemple of the Washington Post emailed or called to alert the Globe people what was happening.
This un-checked material wasn’t on the Boston.com “Living” pages, it was on the FINANCIAL pages for crying out loud.
The moguls need to be sure that there are at least enough interns at work to monitor what’s going out over the Globe’s masthead.
this is one of my favorite things to ever happen on the internet.
On another note, though… wow has the Boston Globe fallen. That the story which appeared on its site ever appeared at all is even more damning than the fact that Brietbart ran with it.
The Globe has a responsibility to make sure every article posted on its site is read by someone on its staff before being posted — and clearly this one never was, because it was absurdly laughable and obviously false.
for Reuters, has written and spoken about the need for reporters to learn to read, rather than write, better:
Just took a hit.
Just go to the “Search” box on Boston.Com, and type “Krugman”. The very first story headline that appears says:
Paul Krugman Files Chapter 13 Bankrutcy – Finance – Boston.com
The link is broken, but they are still showing that headline!
Hey, Brian McGrory, you are losing credibility.
As Colin Powell put it when he endorsed Obama back in 08, so what if he was a Muslim? So what if Krugman did have to file bankruptcy?
I worked for nearly three years at a bankruptcy law firm and the vast majority (60%) of our clients were the victims of frankly immoral and illegal ponzi schemes endorsed by big banks and their colluders in the Bush administration OR were filing medical bankruptcies. In both cases they are victims not losers. I dislike the notion that the right would lie to discredit Paul Krugman, but I dislike the notion that even if he had filed bankruptcy his Nobel prizes and economic research suddenly eviscerates. Economic literacy and ones personal financial situation are entirely unrelated.
Frankly if a Nobel winner had to file bankruptcy on his house or because of his health it would be an indictment on our society, not on the professor.
But then he has no creditablity either.
I read Dollars and Sense