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Destroying the Globe in order to save it?
By Ron Newman on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 9:29am
Today's Herald provides the latest update: Globe facing 'large' layoffs: Guild chief warns union of steep cuts
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If they're going to charge
If they're going to charge $1 for the paper, $3.50 on Sundays, and who knows how much more for the home delivery price increase that's coming soon, they'd better make sure there's something in it that's good to read. And that goes double for the Herald.
Value
As a Bostonian, I care about jobs and people.
However, as a reader of the Globe, I care about some of the content from the editorial side -- how it informs me, and its societal impact.
The Globe is potentially more important as a news organization than it is as a jobs program.
I think that a first-rate organization for real journalism like Boston needs could be funded for a small fraction of what the Globe is currently hemorrhaging on an over-sized business.
If they can save the *journalism* while preserving jobs with the over-sized business, then great. Otherwise, -- and it's really difficult to say when we're talking about who loses their job and who doesn't -- I really hope they opt for real journalism above all else.
They'll never learn
You can't cut your way to greatness.
Ludicrous!
The Boston Globe is scheduling layoffs, making huge cuts, and then hiking up the price with the possibility that this paper may end up being only the slightest shadow of its old self once they're through? This is ludicrous, imho.
Hard to know
But if destroying the Globe has even the tiniest potential to save it... I say we try it.
Wouldn't want to say we didn't try, is all.
Hmmmmm...I don't know, Jay Levitt:
I'd say that this:
also has the potential for disaster.
the potential for disaster?
You think we might destroy something else by accident?
Sorry, that's all I got...