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Why I love boston.com's newsbot
By adamg on Wed, 12/14/2005 - 8:00am
It's constantly seeking to expand the definition of "local" to help us break out of our parochial mindset. Take, for example, this morning's lead item - yeah, sure, you'd think most Bostonians would care more about a quadruple murder in Dorchester than a possible subway strike 200 miles away, but geez, people, that kind of thinking will never get us world-class status.
Earlier:
Cupertino, Mass.
Boston.com: Bay State in massive landgrab
But the grapefruits remain neutral
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Boston.com does serve all of
Boston.com does serve all of new england, not just boston, so i could see why this would be there. People in connecticut care about what goes on in NYC. They should consider not covering connecticut as much though.
but Connecticut, and
but Connecticut, and especially southwestern Connecticut, is only notionally part of New England. For the most part, the Globe pays little attention to it. I'm convinced that if the Station nightclub fire had happened 10 miles further to the west, across the state line into Connecticut, it would have gotten minimal Globe coverage.