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Report: Former boston.com reporter has new job offer rescinded over Chinese-foodgate meeting recording
By adamg on Tue, 01/06/2015 - 12:21pm
You know things are bad when even New York news sites take notice of your affairs: We read today on Capital, a site that normally covers exciting developments in the Cuomo/de Blasio administrations, that two boston.com employees were summarily cashiered and shame-walked out of the newsroom after a Dec. 12 all-hands meeting over the Edelman/Sichuan Garden/T-shirt/not-a-racist affair on management's suspicion they were the ones who recorded the meeting and slipped WGBH a copy of the audio.
But it gets worse, at least for one of the two people: The site says one of them had already given his two weeks' notice to boston.com to take a job at Buzzfeed, but that Buzzfeed rescinded the offer after it learned of the recording (from a Capital reporter working on the story).
Meanwhile, David Bernstein continues to be stymied in his efforts to learn who is in charge of the boston.com newsroom these days.
H/t Ian Lamont, who keeps up with the New York news these days so we don't have to.
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Hahaha, of course the next
Hahaha, of course the next step for a dollar store journalist would be buzzfeed. From one garbage dump to the next or in this case, not even!
Maybe she should apply to Rolling Stone. They're all about reporting lies and hearsay without investigation these days.
Except Rolling Stone took its screw-up seriously....
... and has arranged for a completely inedependent review of how and why things went wrong:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/12/22/rolling-st...
Rolling Stone's screw-up
was for one simple reason - trying to be "mainstream" by reporting on things they are not expert in reporting on.
Pretty sure
that Rolling Stone has always had its fair share or non-music reporting. A shittily researched story is a shittily researched story, whether it's about the Grateful Dead or fraternity rape culture.
Ebola risk for Lara Logan!
Lara Logan's penance for trusting the lying witness on a Benghazi story was going to Africa to cover Ebola! Wasn't enough she got stripped and sexually assaulted covering a story for them in Egypt.
So compared to her and what war correspondents endure, fallout from coverage of a trivial story was nothing.
Keeping the editor secret is company policy?
"ICYMI: Boston Globe Media Partners tells me they cannot say who if anyone is editor of http://boston.com, per company policy."
Bozos
Editor?
From my occasional visits to boston.com, I can safely assume that there is no editor, or at least no editor that actually does editing.
From the way some of boston.com's headlines read
It sounds like they're being lead by a group of 17 year old mean girls.
Join me....
I've started a 2015 Boston.com diet. Parental controls enforced so no mindless, accidental surfing when I'm bored/procrastinating or accidentally clicking links from other sites. I have better things to do with my time than consuming trashy non-journalism.
I finally gave up on them
when they changed the format. It wasn't even worth the effort to read the trolls in the comments goading each other around the naughty word filter.
I deleted all references to boston.com from my computer so that it no longer accidentally comes up in my browser.
Same
Only I added a line to my hosts file to resolve Boston.com to 127.0.0.1.
Firefox LeechBlock
I use the LeechBlock add-on for Firefox. Some sites get blocked altogether. Some sites get a few-second delay while a message on the screen reminds me why I don't like that site.