I had a letter to the editor published in the Boston Globe last month and now I'm going to have the distinction of authoring one of the last 100 Globe letters. Because it's really going to happen. My sense of certainty comes from Eric … [Read more...]
Can Politicians Save Newspapers?
(Cross-posted from the MS&L blog, The PR FinishLine - http://prfinishline.blogspot.c... The headlines are cascading in about the impending demise of newspapers. The headlines have been particularly breathless in the very papers on the … [Read more...]
Bill Simmons on the Death of Newspapers
Cross-posted from Blue News Tribune. Despite his fondness for Rocky IV and tendency to bash John Turturro (OK, he did it once), Bill Simmons, the Sports Guy, is pretty sharp. But this really surprised me in his column about Kevin … [Read more...]
“More Finneran Follies”
Where and when does it end? Who gave Tom Finneran,"for he's a jolly good felon", the right to "take care" of his buddies with our tax dollars? Another "Dukakoid", Tim Bassett is flushed out of hiding by the Boston Globe. Mr. … [Read more...]
Here’s What You Do, Globe
(Cross posted on Blue News Tribune and Blue Hampshire.) Enact this short list of proposals immediately: 1. No more "news analysis." You make that something reserved for the truly complex: credit default swaps, the federal budget, or the … [Read more...]
As the Globe Turns
Switchblade sisters: Boston.com teaser copy on the lead story from the Globe: Threat to Globe triggers flood of feelings News that The New York Times Co. might shut down the Boston Globe if its unions don't swiftly agree to $20 million in … [Read more...]
Response to Saturday’s hatchet-job?
Saturday's piece by Frank Phillips mentions several of the participants here. It reads like a hatchet-job. Any comments or responses? Doug? … [Read more...]
What’s next for the shrinking Globe
Working harder isn't going to do it once the Boston Globe has finished with its current round of 50 reductions to the newsroom staff. Once that process has been completed, the news staff will have shrunk from about 550 full-time journalists … [Read more...]
Social Security = Ponzi Scheme – The Zombie That Will Not Die
The Globe today published a mercifully brief letter to the editor comparing Social Security to a Madoff-like Ponzi scheme. Since no one at the Globe seems to spend anytime using the internet as a resource, they could not have known that … [Read more...]
Boston Globe 2, JFK 0!
Today is the 45th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In the state's newspaper of record, the Boston Globe, there were two mentions of this. The first, on the sports page, C1, in an article about the Harvard-Yale football … [Read more...]
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