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Whatever Boston.com editors make, it's clearly not enough
By adamg on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 9:21am
The Herald reports a Boston.com editor is in a bit of hot water for designing and trying to sell T-shirts mocking that Harvard Business School professor.
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yeah
this is VERY inappropriate for someone at a news org to do this.
Wait...
BDC is still a news org?
ya ya ya
ya ya I know.. its Boston Dot Crap. But in very simplistic terms, they are a news source. Not a very good one, but yes a news source. (especially since in some ways they are still affliated/owned by the Boston Globe)
I hear Rolling Stone...
...is in the market for a hard hitting, reliable, unbiased journalist.
Performance based commission.
Which would explain the need to sell t-shirts on the side.
Marketing at all expense.
Isn't that what we see from John Henry's other local investment.
Yes, it's inappropriate, but
Yes, it's inappropriate, but I feel like this points up generational difference. She should be told not to do it again and why, but not fired.
Boston.com is trying very,
Boston.com is trying very, very hard to become as inept and unprofessional as Gawker. Wonder what year the author graduated from the Devry School of Blogging?
I just spit out my tea....
"Devry School of Blogging"
Can't say I'm at all bothered
Can't say I'm at all bothered by this. Don't see a problem with it.
Bad Idea
If the Herald's editor started selling a T-Shirt which proclaimed "I'm stupid but I'm not Obama" (or something equally as dumb) a lot of people would be up in arms.
The BDC shirt isn't horrible but it gives the impression the editor is pushing an agenda and editors aren't suppose to do that. (Not openly, at least.)
Wait
Wait, there are actually still some people out there that believe that there's such a thing as an impartial or "fair and balanced" newspaper?
All newspapers have positions, opinions, agendas to push. The ones that claim they don't are lying.
There is a difference between editorial viewpoint
and journalistic integrity.
In a classic two newspaper town like Boston, editorial viewpoint colors what each newspaper covers and emphasizes. For example, the Boston Herald, as many of us know, has an obsession with the misuse of EBT cards due to its conservative populism, but does have concern for the plight of urban Boston, as evidenced by the ongoing stories on unsolved murders in the city. The Boston Globe will cover trends of the upper classes, as they are theoretically a core constituency, but also have a religion reporter and someone on the Roman Catholic Church beat, since "ethnics" are also a traditional group or readers.
Journalistic integrity goes out the door when a reporter starts shilling t-shirts based off a story they just wrote. I give Howie Carr this much, at least he is writing both columns and books (and his books are of a much higher quality.) Yes, traditionally the goal was to sell newspapers or get viewers or whatnot in order to make the operation profitable, but don't be blatant about selling merchandise.
Good points except the part about Howie Carr
Remember, Carr's the guy who got the Herald to whore out its front page to his liposuction surgeon.
Editor's note: I admit I made money off T-shirts based on a news story I covered: Back in 2010, I sold I survived the Aquapocalypse T-shirts.
But have you read his books
He's a surprisingly good writer. But yeah, the liposuction thing.
As far as your stuff goes, other than French toast, which has become a thing, your wares are not based on your writing. Of course, if you start selling licensing board hearing based t-shirts, I might even buy one.
No one could have seen this
No one could have seen this coming except anyone who has paid attention to boston.com's descent into tabloidville over the last year or so.
Is she or whoever is responsible there also going to face scrutiny for calling the guy a racist based on obviously fake emails too?
She's obsessed
Edelman should consider filing a restraining order.
he could apply his 93A expertise to boston.com
A $1 discrepancy on menu prices pales in comparison to the daily consumer fraud (where the promised product is news) that is boston.com. But alas, they, like most advertising and entertainment companies, are protected by the first amendment.
Product?
It's only a product if you're buying it.
With Facebook, Google, Boston.com, etc: it always pays to remember that you're not the customer, you're the product that's being sold to the real customers.
But the editor would then
But the editor would then likely lateral over to Jezebel (part of Gawker) to post a blog about how she, a woman was victimized by this rich vindictive old straight white male.
Totally unprofessional....
... and sort of conflict-of-interesty, I think.
Ms. Sargent
is what used to be known as a shit stirrer. I believe today she'd be a 'troll'.
Didn't she just get kicked
Didn't she just get kicked out of a certain mom group recently over this stirring 'article'?
http://www.boston.com/life/moms/2014/11/21/ain-scandal-like-online-paren...
Fake emails
Have they found out who sent the fake racist emails?
I ask because one of the comments on the Herald article indicates that The restaurant owner sent them.
Probably a troll, but I thought I'd ask in case there was actual evidence.
A very low standard
The phrase "one of the comments on the Herald" marks a very low standard, even for truthiness.
next up
Fox news will tell us they now love Obama!
I don't think this would happen...
... even if he took us into war against Iran (something the right wing seems really desperate for).
If Obama declared war on Iran
If Obama declared war on Iran, you'd suddenly see more peaceniks in the Republican Party than there were at the 1972 Democratic Convention.
Ha Ha
That's fair. I did have to go wash my hands after hitting the 'save' button.
;-)