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Home Front: Culture Wars
Carr: Globe gobbledygook memo ominous sign
2017-01-09
[BostonHerald] Like Chipotle, the Cleveland Browns and the Democratic Party, the bust-out Boston Globe is trying to “reinvent” itself.
Hey! Hey! The Browns have hope!
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.

Check out the job titles in the memo — senior deputy managing editor for local news, deputy managing editor for audience engagement, deputy managing editor for operations, etc.
More at the link
Posted by:badanov

#7  This reeks of Management Consultant BS.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-01-09 19:42  

#6  As (editor) McGrory brags, they “drive the civic conversation in Greater Boston.”

How about "reporting news" instead, paperboy?
Posted by no mo uro 2017-01-09 07:00||

Too late - this is an attitude which permeates the place, which is why I'm looking forward to the dorm conversion.
Posted by: Raj   2017-01-09 17:29  

#5  I can't wait until they convert 135 Morrissey Boulevard to dorms for UMass-Boston.
Posted by: Raj   2017-01-09 17:21  

#4  
Posted by: 3dc   2017-01-09 13:24  

#3  ... TRANSLATION: "We're doing this crap to give the senior stockholders a chance to sell before the stocks attain roughly the same value as used Kleenex. The end is near, but we're part of the Media; we don't dare admit it's over until the morning we lock the doors without telling anyone and then we'll blame it on the Deplorables."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2017-01-09 10:33  

#2  Don't drive a civic like my brother.
Don't start a civic conversation like my brother

/Euripides Upman
Posted by: Shipman    2017-01-09 09:15  

#1  As (editor) McGrory brags, they “drive the civic conversation in Greater Boston.”

How about "reporting news" instead, paperboy?
Posted by: no mo uro   2017-01-09 07:00  

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