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BOSTON MAGAZINE HAD its semiannual complete staff turnover last week. Among the six let go were editor James Burnett and creative director Patrick Mitchell. Apparently, advertising is down, because the audience that likes to read about jewel-encrusted dog dishes has diminished.
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IF A REPORTER calls you for an interview, you'd better return their queries, motherfucker, and none of that "no comment" bullshit ... unless you want to feel the rage.
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APPARENTLY, BOSTON'S LARGEST newspaper also has Boston's biggest bruised ego.
An entire page of the Metro's Friday news section was devoted to readers' responses to its coverage of gay marriage, which, as it turns out, is a "HOT BUTTON ISSUE."
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YOU REALLY CAN'T blame the Boston Herald for succumbing to its desires. The paper lusts after stories with the perfect elements: Sex!, Corrupt Pols! (so Howie Carr doesn't stretch his brain muscles too hard writing his column), Killer Cons!, Good Cops!!
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Does size matter?
... More lies your newspaper told you: The Metro is claiming it's
"Boston's
Largest Newpaper." We believe in truth in advertising, so we took the
offending sample to Dig Labs, to test our theory that this is, in fact, a bunch
of horse shit.
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WHEN PEOPLE ASK us if we think the Boston Globe will collapse in a fit of debt and in-fighting, we always say, it doesn't have to.
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FEW CHARGES ARE more serious to a serious journalist than the accusation of plagiarism ... unless the journalism itself isn't serious, and the words being lifted are the journalistic equivalent of "I picked my nose and eated it."
That's why we think the battle raging between the two Somervillian papers is so ... cute! This is from the Somerville Journal's website:
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TWO WEEKS AGO, we learned the Metro's business model—of employing half-literate reporters to write articles consisting of one quote and a bunch of background information, then foisting the mess on unsuspecting T riders as part of an evil plot to stupefy the masses—kind of sucks.
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AS HIS HOMETOWN paper sputters on on life support, our very own muppety Sen. John Kerry, who happens to be the chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation's Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet (ladies, take note: the longer the title, the more someone's compensating for something), had to preside over a congressional panel on "The Future of Journalism," and listen to experts squabble over who was making journalism's future more bleak.
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THERE WAS THE New York Times Co.'s threat of filing a 60-day shutdown notice, settlements reached with most of the unions and the Boston Newspaper Guild stupidly holding out on the lifetime-employment guarantees that the NYT management stupidly agreed to when it stupidly spent too much money on the paper ... BUT the Boston Globe isn't dead (yet!)!!
