Yeah, that about covers it.
"A familiar name, an interrupted record; Taylor is drawing on his pedigree and a modern pitch" by Beth Healy, Globe Staff | October 8, 2009
Second in a two-part series about bidders for The Boston Globe.
.... a dying industry....
A longtime Globe editor, Lincoln Millstein, was already concerned about the Internet. “I worried about its power, its disruptive nature,’’ Millstein said in a recent interview. “You felt intuitively when you went online that this was going to cause problems.’’
You, TELLING the TRUTH is DISRUPTIVE and a PROBLEM for the AGENDA-PUSHING AmeriKan MSM!!!!
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So what do the Globe staff have to look forward.
"Platinum profits from formula of rigor, pain" by Casey Ross and Beth Healy, Globe Staff | October 7, 2009
.... Platinum’s chief executive, Tom Gores, acknowledged that much of the profit is due to sharp staff cuts and said he does not yet know how he will balance the sometimes competing goals of making money and producing quality journalism....
Well, we know what lost out there, don't we?
Immediately after taking over the newspaper, Platinum carried out layoffs of 192 employees that were planned by its previous owners, and then instituted a second staff reduction of 112.
This after the New York Times bent you guys over? Oh, Globe!
Among those laid off were the paper’s editorial page editor, its reporter covering the San Diego Padres, and several of its longest-serving feature writers and investigative reporters.
Some of you big shots better take note.
I guess the hop over to ESPN is a good career move, just in case.
(The head of the paper’s investigative team is now trying to create a separate nonprofit to continue producing in-depth reports; Platinum has committed an undisclosed amount of money to help fund the enterprise.)
Oh, that is nice of 'em.
Even before Platinum arrived on the scene, the Union-Tribune went through several rounds of staff reductions that resulted in smaller daily news sections. Its stories are shorter, and it relies on wire services for national and international news.
You sure they aren't talking about the Boston Globe, because....
Related: Saying Goodbye to the Boston Globe
A year ago, the Union-Tribune shut its Washington bureau, which in 2006 helped win the newspaper a Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in journalism, for its coverage of a corrupt California congressman.
Like most major metropolitan newspapers, the Globe, too, has experienced significant reductions in staff and news content over the past several years. Newsroom staff is down to 340, from a high of 552 in 2000. The Globe has closed all its foreign bureaus and reduced staff coverage of national affairs and other select news categories.
No wonder it has turned into such a PoS.
Even my friends have noticed, and they only read the sports.
In San Diego, many former newsroom employees dismissed by Platinum said the cuts have stretched the staff thin, forcing beat reporters normally assigned to crime or the region’s large military industry to chase daily stories of any kind that their former colleagues had once covered.
WHO would EVER WANT to work for a NEWSPAPER now?
“When you continue to shrink and shrink and shrink, you’re just asking people to shovel at some point,’’ said Brian Cragin, a former technology editor at the Union-Tribune who was laid off by Platinum. “You just can’t produce quality.’’
Yup, and we know EXACTLY what they are shoveling!!!
And yes, that very accurately DESCRIBES my BOSTON GLOBE
Now read: Taking a Tour of the Boston Globe
Of course, why should we believe them?
Not like that "information" isn't self-serving or anything (like everything in their PoS pages).
