The Globies: Arrogant Until The End
by Brian Maloney, May 4th, 2009 at 08:11pm
Long after the Boston Globe has published its final edition, their stunning arrogance will be hard to forget. And during eleventh-hour labor negotiations designed to give their dying paper some breathing room, the Globies were true to form, according to the Herald:
The Globe reporters covering negotiations this morning (and last night’s) got preferential treatment - and first dibs at interviews.
While the media crowd waiting for hours and hours in the front hallway of the Sacred Heart School for updates, Globe reporter Keith O’Brien was able to work in a comfortable office space, isolated from the rest of us.
He - as well as a Globe photographer - also got access to union leaders before they came out to speak to the crowd of media to update us on talks. He was also seen inside an office conducting a sit down interview with Boston Newspaper Guild leader Dan Totten this morning.
Outside in the hall, the rest of us reporters sat on chairs, stairs, a table and even a wheelchair. There was one outlet on the third floor. A woman from the Labor Guild School - located at Sacred Heart - was kind enough to provide us with chairs.
Professionalism? Courtesy? Forget it. The Globies truly see themselves as above the little people and that includes the rest of the local media.
Globe image: The Observer
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5 Comments Add your own
1. Broadcast Please | May 4th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I call ‘unfair’ on this piece, Maloney. Boston Globe isn’t responsible for anybody but their own reporters, first & foremost. They were a newspaper medium, not a furniture company. With the paper going under, I’m certain that every single Globe reporter is in that office. Anybody with thinking abilities can recognize that they would not cater to everybody in the panic-ridden last days of the newspaper company. On and on and on it goes. Pretty pathetic swipe, if I do say so, myself.
2. Brian Maloney | May 4th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I disagree. There were no similar stories of this kind of behavior in Seattle as the Times covered the Post-Intelligencer’s demise, it remained civil and professional.
3. piratetoby | May 4th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Brian,
I have to agree with BP. However I would go a step futher than “unfair”. Incredulous is a better description.
You can not possibly be serious!
4. Ad Man | May 5th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Perhaps there was no similar story because the reporters from the Seattle Times did not expect equal accomodations from which to spew venom the way Howie’s secretary Jessica does. She comes off like an idiot for writing the story and you display your agenda for all to see by repeating it.
5. piratetoby | May 5th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Still can’t get over this, Brian. What would have made you happy? Coffee delivered? Foot massages while you waited? Chinese take-out?
You’re gloating over the possible demise of the Globe, frothing at the mouth, and you feel the Globe lacks “civility”?
Really, give this whole notion of yours some careful thought.
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