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The Globe wuvs Michael Dell
By adamg on Mon, 12/04/2017 - 2:32pm
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Delldos
Might legitimately be the worst headline I've ever seen.
The alternative weekly in tiny Burlington, VT hands the Weekly Dig its lunch. The wrong paper folded.
I thought it was pretty good.
I thought it was pretty good. But I also think it's funny that somebody has thrown a dildo on the field at the last two Pats/Bills games in Buffalo. I'm perpetually 14 years old.
Meh ..
Shouldn't the bigger deal with The Globe be that they let the BSO off the hook for years—and are still kinda burying the story—on hiring known pedohile James Levine. Is it because the BSO also advertises with the Globe, so it's even more off limits than the archdiocese was years ago? I mean hiring him in 2004 is unforgivable, especially considering part of the job description is working with young artists at the Tanglewood school. Where's the Globe on this story? Seems like they've soft-pedaled it to date.
Marty (no not that one)
The archdiocese story was from the Marty Baron era, before he went to the Washington Post. You're not going to see dinosaur McGrory rock the boat like that.
I subscribe to the Post because it reminds me of what the Globe used to be.
Pretty weak argument
So basically, Faraone dislikes Michael Dell because he has a lot of money and the Globe isn't trashing him. I'm not sure what he expects the Globe to do.
I have no idea what Faraone was trying to say here:
Why should we hold our nose?
Does anyone know what Faraone is trying to say half the time?
I noticed in yet another screed against the Globe, Faraone fails to mention by name our girl Shirl. Why he fails to mention a woman who practically worships at the feet of anyone with a CEO title in his furor against Mrs. Henry's folly is very strange indeed.
Especially when you consider Faraone's pedigree working for flesh peddler and human trafficker, Phoenix owner Steven Mindich. At least Henry never made money from prostitution.
Libel?
I'm not in the bag for Mr. Mindich, but do you have grounds to call him a "human trafficker?" I think the term you're looking for is "advertising salesman."
Right?
I mean, seeing how in The Phoenix's heyday, you were busy pulling wings off of flies in Vermont, so tell me again your frame of reference here?
And I'll let the man himself speak:
Yeah, sure, Steve. Trading scrip bought you those homes.
Phoenix Entre Nous section
Some paper boxes would get small piles of the section that had been pulled out, by people who wanted the Phoenix, but didn't want that sleazy section.
Besides phone sex and strip club ads, it included obvious prostitution.
Being a news organization, albeit with an entertainment-heavy slant, with obligations to reporting the truth, the Phoenix couldn't deny awareness of the obvious. ("Those escorts are only billing for companionship; any sex that might happen is separate, between mutually consenting adults!" "Those massages are totally therapeutic, and the ads totally don't suggest otherwise, and, as journalists, we've never heard of human trafficking!")
A truly honest news organization would watch the doings of their own business side, and report when appropriate.
I'm still waiting for Globe Spotlight to look into past friends-of-Menino handouts, past conflicts of interest involving promoting the Red Sox while owned by NYT Co., and any contemporary conflicts. Like that one awful, horrible shill on staff.
Which horrible shill
could you possibly be referring to?
Because you're reading the
Because you're reading the Globe.
Does the Globe wuv Michael's
Does the Globe wuv Michael's Deli?