By adamg on Sun., 2/25/2018 - 2:16 pm
The way Boston's two major dailies covered yesterday's I-93 showdown between stunters and staties could not have been more different.
The Herald made the incident its entire front page (aided by a dramatic photo) - with not even a mention of the Winchester library murder- while the Globe made it a brief on page 2 of the Metro section. The Globe devoted most of its front page to a well sourced, well written scoop on turmoil at the Boston Athenaeum, but, well, raise your hand if you've ever been inside the Athenaeum.
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*raises hand*
By bibliotequetres...
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 2:20pm
*raises hand*
Now, let me go for UR BOSTON LIBRARY DORK :
I have HAD TEA at the Boston Atheneum.
That is some next-level
By Cranky
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 2:37pm
That is some next-level library dorkdom.
I stand in awe.
Oh, raises hand as well
By adamg
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 2:39pm
After I got laid off from my last full-time job and started doing UHub full time instead, a kind soul gave me a year's membership to the Athenaeum, where I'd go after City Hall hearings and bliss out as I typed up the latest licensing misdeeds or whatever. It was most cool, and exactly what you'd expect an old library to be like (imagine if the main reading room at the Copley Square BPL were cut up and stacked on several floors - and had a book bound in human skin). But I'm still guessing more people are familiar with the Expressway than the Athenaeum.
Love the Athenaeum
By cw in boston
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 3:01pm
but it is the complete opposite experience from the Expressway.
no doubt, adam, no doubt
By bibliotequetres...
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 4:00pm
(That's an awfully nice gift to get btw)
I've Been to Tea There
By APB
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 4:05pm
AND I've made my own tea there. I was a member for a little while.
AND I have fallen asleep on a sofa.
AND I can spell ATHENAEUM correctly.
Really? Your keyboard has digraphs?
By bibliotequetres...
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 6:37pm
.
Sure, why not?
By Matthew Miller
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 10:52pm
Mine dœs.
Hand Raised
By Suldog
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 6:25pm
I'm a member. So is MY WIFE. Wonderful place.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Clarification needed
By Parkwayne
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 8:17pm
Should the 'MY WIFE" in all caps be read in a Borat voice?
HA-HA!
By Suldog
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 9:53pm
No, just with the normal amount of awe you have reserved for a superb woman.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
A few visits
By Irma la Douce
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 7:05pm
I've visited for public art exhibits, and once attended what I think is an annual Open House event that included a discounted membership offer. There was a special guided tour of the stacks and conservation areas. Love the alcove overlooking the Granary Burying Ground and the desk spaces on the second floor.
The Globe article does not say much about how regular visiting members might be affected by the staff turmoil.
Targeting each demo.
By bulgingbuick
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 2:30pm
Meet the new papers same as the old papers.
Two problems with the Herald one
By anon
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 9:23am
Funny thing about point #2
By Waquiot
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 12:34pm
Those arrested looked pretty white to me.
Alas, there were two reasons why the Herald played this up. The first is that this is a quality of life issue in parts on Boston, but I won't bore you on the demographics of those areas. The second, and objectively the more important one, is that they were able to get a photographer out to the scene and get some good shots. Going back to the days of the Evening Record and Daily Advertiser at the end, photography has driven this newspaper. Just look at the winners of the Pulitzer for news photography.
Globe story is excellent
By Turalura Lipschitz
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 2:31pm
Globe story is excellent journalism that interests only octagenarians who live in Louisburg Square or Lincoln; Herald's story is disjointed but essential to the 1000s of people who've been disrupted by the dumbwheelers.
This is why
By Sources Say
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 2:48pm
I like two newspaper towns.
Wrong. I first went to the
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 4:32pm
Wrong. I first went to the Athenaeum in my early 20's while I was living in NH. Some of us just really love old architecture, amazing libraries, researching and reading things other than best sellers. Take a seat.
I'm years away from octegenarianism
By Michael
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 6:17pm
And I'd much rather read about my favorite place in the city than why today's traffic jam is different from all other traffic jams.
60
By Suldog
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 6:30pm
So no doubt subject to many sweeping generalizations, if someone wishes to make some, but also a member of the Athenaeum. I'd still rather read about sanity taking hold for a change.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
My favorite part of Pesach.
By blues_lead
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 12:51pm
My favorite part of Pesach.
I also love having many news
By formerlyTheSoBo...
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 8:37am
I also love having many news outlets. Something for everyone:
- Herald readers = uneducated people
- Boston Globe readers = mildly educated people (too much sportsball coverage to make it to the next level)
- UHUB readers = highly educated people
Fun fact
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 10:30am
One can enjoy spectator sport while also being well informed about civic affairs and issues in the news. Your snobbery is unproductive.
Then...
By Brian Riccio
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 11:08am
what's your excuse?
My excuse for what?
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 12:02pm
Go on...
Dr. Barker's background is
By bibliotequetres...
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 2:35pm
Dr. Barker's background is exclusively in art galleries and art museums. Even though the Atheneum holds some fantastic works of art, it is a library, first and foremost.
I have never worked for Dr. Barker myself and so I'm not weighing in on her particular service at the Atheneum, but hiring a director with no library experience at all was a strange choice for the directors to make.
Two Papers - Two Parties
By scooterdude
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 2:35pm
Sort of makes you think how the system works.
Dems
Reps.
Herald
Globe.
"You say 'potato' I say po tatta to!
Let's call the whole thing off!"
Scrolled past a friend (mid
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 2:37pm
Scrolled past a friend (mid-20s white male) who shared the Herald's online story on Facebook. The meta title read, "State police: 1 shot during bike melee on 93." Thought, "Shouldn't that read 'State police shoot one during bike melee on 93'"? Didn't click through to see what the title on the page read.
No — The Colon Means That's What The State Police Said
By Elmer
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 3:08pm
Once Again, Universal Hub Is Truly A Treasure
By Elmer
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 3:06pm
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By Lanny Budd
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 6:12am
eDorable!
Not a member, but I frequent
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 4:27pm
Not a member, but I frequent the Athenaeum several times a year to see their excellent exhibits which are open to the public for only $5. It's a beautiful building and their collection is extraordinary.
It's articles like the one
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 4:53pm
It's articles like the one about the Athenaeum that would make me consider subscribing to The Globe. The Herald has always been more of a tabloid newapaper, which is fine as long as we're a two-paper town.
The view of the ...
By Lee
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 5:26pm
.... burial ground out the back windows of the Atheneum on an autumn afternoon is worth a visit alone.
I've been in the Athenaeum
By Ron Newman
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 5:34pm
They have occasional public programs that don't require either an admission fee or a membership. Even though I've been there only a handful of times, it's more relevant to my life than the Southeast Expressway is.
I Pick Both
By Grant Young
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 6:40pm
I think they're both significant stories.
Those kids on the dirt bikes and quad ATVs are potentially dangerous and for folks in the city's neighborhoods its a true nuisance. The cops haven't really had much success with them other than the odd confiscation raid. I'm not sure it was a complete success but I suspect the cops' willingness to try new tactics is a welcomed.
The Athenaeum story was really well done and about an institution that has deep Boston history. Its not just the Athenaeum that faces challenges to its historical mission. I've seen changes like it happening at other Boston institutions like it trying to remain relevant. Its painful and sometimes just stupid the way the "old guard" gets treated. I'm glad it's getting called out. Change is inevitable but sometimes respecting the past is the best way to the future.
Herald overplayed story, Globe underplayed it
By Ron Newman
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 7:01pm
Surely there's some (un)happy medium that neither paper achieved here?
The "brief" in the printed Sunday paper is a single paragraph, considerably shorter and less detailed than what you linked to on their website. The headline is [b]State trooper shoots suspect on I-93[/b] which provides no context for the shooting. The story deserved more coverage than that.
Timing?
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 7:20pm
Could it have to do with when the Globe and Herald were put to bed?
The Winchester murder was much earlier in the day.
To the point of your story
By Waquiot
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 8:38pm
It saddens me that there are people out there who have no idea what the front page of a newspaper is and the editorial significance of what is on it.
As for the story, I typically pass on the Sunday Herald, but thankfully I have other sources (I’m abstaining from the internet on the Christian Sabbath for Lent, so you weren’t my source) to find out about the events on the expressway.
If you are abstaining from the Internet today
By Ron Newman
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 8:47pm
how did you post this comment?
Because fasting of any kind is prohibited on Sundays
By Neal
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 12:28am
In Catholicism, even during lent. A lot of people interpret that as dispensation to resume whatever was given up for the day. The official line on the matter is basically "don't actively seek it out, but don't actively avoid it either".
Excellent point
By Waquiot
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 12:28am
I go sundown Saturday to sundown Sunday, or how the Sabbath is typically viewed (for Christians.)
UM, why did they have to insult clowns!
By hydeparkish
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 8:41pm
Seems more serious than a trip to the circus!
My thoughts exactly
By OriginalPatPayaso
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 9:27pm
Thanks for having the clowns back :)
Por que
By Roman
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 9:29pm
en Ingles?
Do I hear sirens wailing over
By be not logged in
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 10:36pm
Do I hear sirens wailing over that exquisite Schubert quartet?
This is the problem.
By dwhogan
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 1:15am
This is the problem.
Dogtown Herald vs. Dogtown Globe
By anon
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 9:12am
Dogtown Herald: OMFG SQUIRREL! SQUIRREL! SQUIRREL!
Dogtown Globe: In depth story on bones and rawhide treats
This Morning's SQUIRREL!
Story about Good Boys and Good Girls in a sad place.
I'm betting that some people
By Chris77
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 2:09pm
I'm betting that some people confuse the Athenaeum with the Arboretum and think it's down in that "icky" part of Boston when it's near the State House.
At least today's Herald back page is appropriate.
http://www.bostonherald.com/sites/default/files/st...
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