Globe/Boston.com needs our help! ;-)
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I read the Boston Globe on-line at boston.com. I read it mostly to glean any local news I may have missed from other sources, not because it is central or in any way important. I feel somewhat bad about this. I grew up with home delivery of the Globe and while maybe I was less critical as a callow youth... (hell no, I was fearsome) it does seem like these days it is barely on the boil.
The point? Ah yes, the point. Is there anything we can do? Does anyone have a line in? I don't presume we can affect editorial policy. That is laden in god knows what layers of political ya-ya and office wah-wah. Maybe there is something we can do about Boston.com? It is so much of a "web site by interns" (not to disparage interns...;-) in it's overall design, stories, social media attempts, layout. It is just a disaster but it continues on year after year. Does anyone read it besides me and the trolls who post in the comments section? I lived in Chicago a long time and coming back here I am kind of ashamed to cite the Globe/Boston.com as my hometown paper.
Anyway - is there someone to tell? I've been over the site and have posted a few suggestions but it is all yadda-yadda replies. I was thinking that if there was a lever (i.e. a response here) maybe someone in some boardroom on Morrissey Boulevard might take a clue - and forestall the movers coming in.
I read the Boston Globe on-line at boston.com. I read it mostly to glean any local news I may have missed from other sources, not because it is central or in any way important. I feel somewhat bad about this. I grew up with home delivery of the Globe and while maybe I was less critical as a callow youth... (hell no, I was fearsome) it does seem like these days it is barely on the boil.
The point? Ah yes, the point. Is there anything we can do? Does anyone have a line in? I don't presume we can affect editorial policy. That is laden in god knows what layers of political ya-ya and office wah-wah. Maybe there is something we can do about Boston.com? It is so much of a "web site by interns" (not to disparage interns...;-) in it's overall design, stories, social media attempts, layout. It is just a disaster but it continues on year after year. Does anyone read it besides me and the trolls who post in the comments section? I lived in Chicago a long time and coming back here I am kind of ashamed to cite the Globe/Boston.com as my hometown paper.
Anyway - is there someone to tell? I've been over the site and have posted a few suggestions but it is all yadda-yadda replies. I was thinking that if there was a lever (i.e. a response here) maybe someone in some boardroom on Morrissey Boulevard might take a clue - and forestall the movers coming in.
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Re: Thanks
Date: 2010-02-07 02:10 pm (UTC)