I understand that with ownership comes privilege. I understand that John Henry owns both the Red Sox and the Boston Globe. I know that summer Sundays are slow in this town. But seriously, “How many bleeping dents are in the Green Monster?” on the front page, with picture no less?
Are there so few pieces in the pipeline that the front page would have contained a large blank spot if this nonsense wasn’t published? The Globe whines self-servingly about the absence of interest in the primaries, and on this crucial weekend (for those who follow politics) fills its front page with THIS!
The Globe hit a new low in mind-numbing idiocy this morning.
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(the Beatles, ‘A Day in the Life’)
… when you are sitting at Fenway and the Sox are finding new ways to lose baseball games.
…in the same manner that the dimples on a golf ball help the ball fly farther, the pock marks on the Green Monster have increased the rotational speed of the earth to a dangerous degree, increasing the orbital speed of the planet and rendering moot all the previous calculations regarding intersecting orbits of rogue asteroids, comets and Richard Branson…
.. In fact, the only thing that can save us now (besides, that is, the entire population of the east coast suddenly sprinting, non stop, to Chicago) is Bruce Willis and a rag-tag team of misfits and ne’er do wells combined with the tears of Ben Affleck, playing in a world series game at Fenway. We have four days to teach them the infield fly rule…
What more can we expect from the new owners of the Globe? People need not concern themselves with our health care crisis and the growing social problems cause by a widening wealth inequality, they need ballgames to watch, slot machine handles to pull, and pretty shiny things to distract them from their plight. When we were attacked on 9/11, President Bush told us to go the malls and shop or head to Disney World. Now the multimillionaire owner of the Globe and the Red Sox is telling us to ignore the primary elections, vote for casinos, and count the dents in the Green Monster.
Yes, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, or in this case, the wall.
Yes, John Henry now owns the Globe. But there have been occasional stories like this in the center of the Sunday front page for as long as I can recall. It’s always been true that there were more pressing societal ills but the Red Sox are an institution, win or lose. People need to lighten up a bit. Progressives (or are we liberals again?) might achieve more by being a little less shrill. It is possible to read about the Green Monster and care about issues too.
There are serious local and national news that could have been front paged, I guess if it was a Sunday edition it doesn’t really matter if they run with a soft story though. And like somebody else said, they got as many holes in their lineup as they do in the Green Monstah’
The Red Sox. Nonetheless, the refrain of “how could you run that piece when there are the very serious issues of X, Y, and Z that should take up every inch of the paper?” gets tiresome.
Next season’s lineup should be pretty decent. Now they just gotta find someone to pitch.
There is certainly a place for human interest stories, and I can see the Red Sox winning the World Series getting front page billing. However, morally the first job of the press is to inform, not entertain IMO. At this point there should be a front page story about at least one of the candidates every day, and no, not another poll but rather what a candidate said to enlighten us as to his/her views on an issue or qualifications for office.
but, as I said, there have been human interest stories, including the Red Sox and Fenway Park, in the Sunday Globe for as long as I can recall. Someone wants to argue the press is doing a bad job on covering the race or the world of politics and policy in general, fine. The main evidence offered to prove that assertion is that the center “photo” story on the Sunday Globe front page concerns the Red Sox, I’m not buying.
The same publication complains of how little interest the voters have in the primary, and how boring the campaign is (I posted a link elsewhere to the piece by Jim O’Sullivan I’m referring to).
that the campaign coverage hasn’t been great. I just don’t think running a story on the Wall has anything to do with that.