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Layoffs, buyouts at the Globe

By adamg on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 6:49pm

Poynter reports.

The news comes a month after layoffs at boston.com.

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By theszak on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 10:09am.

Who are the Metro Journalists that will cover the good works and such of Boston City Councilors?

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By anon on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 6:59pm.

Named theszak would be willing to do it!

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By WikiMan on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 9:29pm.

Don is a legend in Boston's on-line media. I miss Usenet.

See: http://saklad.stormloader.com/

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By Lunchbox on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 9:56am.

Fascinating stuff.

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By cybah on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 11:33pm.

So he's been posting this stuff for well almost 2 decades now.

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By Westie Scum on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 7:28pm.

Please be Shirley Leung please be Shirley Leung...

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By Neighbor2 on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 8:04pm.

...if you only read articles for free.

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By Facepalm on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 8:24pm.

Since when has the Globe had content worth paying for?

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By Bob Murphy on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 11:11pm.

....and I'm in my late 30s. #RIPGlobe

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By Stevil nli on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 9:16pm.

For basically regurgitating press releases from beacon hill and city hall.

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By O-FISH-L on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 12:54am.

Amazingly, this week's Sunday Globe sent a Globe reporter to Nashville to write a huge, front page, above the fold story about a Democrat ex-Mayor's "dream" of creating a new trackless trolley system. The far-left slant was evident from the sub-headline. "The Koch Brothers" and "GOP Legislature" dashed the poor Mayor's $100 million+ dream.

If moderate and conservative readers weren't yet disgusted by the "Koch Brothers/GOP" as villains angle, we learn the ex-Mayor had met with President Obama and received a promise of partial federal funding but the "GOP Legislature" voted against contributing $35 million of required state funds, possibly because a group funded by the Koch's argued the lure of partial federal funding shouldn't force significant state spending. Who cares?

An opinion piece masked as news. The only tenuous Boston link is that the ex-Mayor is from Gardner, MA and has landed a nice new job at BU. Sad.

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By anon on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 7:38am.

Newspapers can cover national news And write opinion pieces. There actual is pretty normal, and it's not like you don't seize every chance to repeat a made up story about Obama.

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By Patricia on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 9:36am.

The problem is there is a huge difference between news and opinion. Too many news outlets today confuse the two and I believe the poster was referring to that issue with the Globes story.

Most of us are wise enough to figure it out for ourselves but the newspaper in question should know better than to try to represent an opinion piece as news.

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By moxie on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 7:36am.

Is my way of saying thank you for the weekly city-wide carpet bombing we know as Globe Direct!

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By penguin_berry on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 9:27am.

I live in an area where they're addressed to a specific address and delivered to our mailbox. I once followed the steps on their tweet to unsubscribe - https://twitter.com/globedirect/status/494559765117566977. I still get the frickin things every damn week. My favorite part is how it's loose in the mailbox, so occasionally I'll find important bills I need to see in between the pages of crap.

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By g on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 8:52am.

... was when NESN let Orsillo go.

I know it's a stretch but they're both under the John Henry umbrella; and I am just fed up with the way this ownership group seems to pander to the "pink hat" crowd while putting a crap product on the field.

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By adamg on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 8:37am.
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By Chris77 on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 8:38am.

I assume the Globe will have some gigantic Head of the Charles supplement with in-depth analysis of the senior coxless sculling pairs.

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By Cranky on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 10:00am.

So I take it you haven't seen today's Globe...

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By Chris77 on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 12:36pm.

No, I hadn't. Sure enough, there's the rowing preview. No disrespect to oarsmen and women, but I will be occupied with hockey on Comm Ave. this weekend.

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By Waquiot on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 6:37pm.

Since they will have a tough time on either end of Comm Ave.

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By Well then on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 9:25am.

I mean one of the two lead stories on the Globe's homepage (BostonGlobe.com, not the drivel-filled Boston.com) is "Cockatoo at large in Brookline, and residents aren’t happy" so who here is complaining about the Globe's relevance and standards?

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By Steeve on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 1:04pm.

Who does Nick Cafardo have pictures of?

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By Nancy on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 1:11pm.

All of sudden, their weather and traffic sections at the top left of the page disappeared. I live chatted with a rep who said they're going to bring the weather back eventually.

Is it too much to ask that our local website of record to have a weather blurb?

Yet they keep Shirley Leung around writing advertorials disguised as a business column.

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