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Arts blogger throws pie chart at Globe arts reporter
By adamg on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 1:42pm
Thomas Garvey uses Excel to prove that, on his Exhibitionist blog, Globe arts reporter Geoff Edgers mainly covers non-Boston or Bigfoot Boston stuff:
Posts about events or organizations based outside Boston: 55%
Posts about the BSO, MFA, CitiCenter, or Boston Ballet: 40%
Posts about Ray Davies and/or the Kinks: 15%
Posts about local arts events: 15%
Posts about smaller organizations: 5%
Edgers replies, says he didn't realize he was covering the Kinks that much
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In or out of boston...art is art
A lot of people outside of boston read geoff edgers and the globe. I live in the merrimack valley. if something interesting is going on, I don't care if it is IN boston or not... I'm interested in stuff up and down eastern MA, from the cape to Salisbury, as far west as worcester.
A lot of the arts stuff I do is based in Salem MA. that's outside boston, but close to it. I would LOVE if Geoff Edgers wrote about our Shakespeare summer camp on Winter Island and the fact that our kids are going to London and Stratford to perform this April.... just a few short weeks away.
We're not in Boston though... and as many times as I've contacted the globe they haven't done an article or piece or anything on Rebel Shakespeare since like 2000.
Maybe if we get Ray Davies to come play Hamlet for us.
I think I'd be irritated if he was constantly writing about art/theatre/music/events in like colorado, Maine, california... etc... If he takes his view outside the city limits, that's okay by me. Keeping it regional is a fine thing in my opinion.
Regionalism isn't the issue
Regionalism isn't the issue, although even there, I'd argue for something like a 1/3 regional, 2/3 Boston mix. My question is about the number of posts concerning Ray Davies and Howard Stern, etc. The point is essentially that a blog has a very low marginal cost to the Globe - it's the perfect platform for actual outreach to the arts community, which is of course a niche market. And yet they're not using it that way.
understood
I haven't watched the video yet or checked out your entry but I will when I get home (don't want to actually participate too hard in a discussion when i'm not 100% informed...)
thanks for your response.