Okay, I just read this column and laughed from beginning to end. It's a humorous piece about changes at The Boston Globe; but it's also a commentary about the challenges that traditional newspapers face and the leftist arc of most major news outlets. Anyway, I hope you find this column as humorous as I did, and maybe there's a bit to discuss as well.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/co.../01/carr_globe_gobbledygook_memo_ominous_sign
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/co.../01/carr_globe_gobbledygook_memo_ominous_sign
Like Chipotle, the Cleveland Browns and the Democratic Party, the bust-out Boston Globe is trying to “reinvent” itself.
In a memo to his decimated staff this week, editor Brian McGrory says the Globe will no longer be the “paper of record” (as if it ever was). Instead, he said, the Globe will be an “organization of interest.”
Sorry, not interested.
McGrory’s memo reads like it was composed by a recent graduate of an ESL program, or perhaps translated from another language, most likely consultantese. Everything is to be interesting, “relentlessly interesting.” After all these years of printing dreary left wing agitprop, how will the Globe become interesting?
“We’ll set up an Audience Engagement team,” McGrory writes. “We will refine and refine again the Hubs system that was proposed by the Mission working group.”
Yeah, that should bring back the readers all right. The Registry of Motor Vehicles couldn’t have put it any better.
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