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Non-journalist put in charge of boston.com newsroom

BostInno reports John Henry's media company has named Eleanor Cleverly as interim editor of boston.com. She'd been hired in September to oversee content for the company's "Digital Marketplaces division." She kinda replaces Hilary Sergeant, who'd been more or less acting as editor and who is being shuffled over to a new job as "senior editor."

Meanwhile, David Bernstein checks in with a detailed chronology of just went wrong with the whole Chinese restaurant debacle, which led to Sargeant being suspended for a week. He raises an interesting question: If Sargeant was suspended for that tasteless T-shirt, how come Corey Gottlieb, the site's overall head honcho, gets off with no punishment when it turns out he's the one who pushed to publish that bogus racist e-mail story, which could've gotten the company in a lot more trouble (like lawsuit-type trouble) than the T-shirt?

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" Journalists" what a useless bunch in 2014 America.

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I said crowd-source funding for UHub to buy the domain, but that would tarnish Uhub's reputation to be associated with that disgrace of a news outlet.

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What, Nick Danger wasn't available?

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complained about a Chinese food order.

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I think part of the job of the Boston Globe is to set an example for what journalism and critical thinking is supposed to be.

Shitty faux-journalism outlets have become toxic to our very thinking.

The Globe company needs to stop trying to feed people bullshit junk food, and set an example for what journalism is supposed to be about.

This means Boston.com is *over* -- shitcan the whole thing, and start over with leadership that actually cares about journalism rather than amplifying the existing shittier side of local culture.

This also means taking some of the Globe's bullshit content to the chopping block. Or at least add a "bullshit" icon to each piece that you know is bullshit (advertorials, celebrity pumping, etc.) rather than being coy about the slippery slope.

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I think part of the job of the Boston Globe is to set an example for what journalism and critical thinking is supposed to be.

As "cautionary example," I take it.

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I think some people might say that the whole BDC newsroom is full of non-journalists.....

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a journalist had been running the boston dot crud "newsroom" up to this point?

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And absolutely nothing was affected.

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