Worcester Telegram & Gazette Poynter
shortly after buying the Boston Globe last yr, John Henry wrote a three,000-phrase essay for the newspaper explaining why he bought it. The purchase wasn’t about profits, Henry defined, it was about discovering a option to maintain the newspaper for the long term. The Globe, he stated, is the eyes and ears of the region and, in some ways, its heartbeat. Henry vowed that the newspaper, which had been on an extended decline underneath the New York Times, would return to personal, local possession with an allegiance to readers and local residents, to not distant shareholders.
That the brand new owner stated, This won’t influence our information coverage in any means” is an insult to the people of Worcester and central Massachusetts. Nevertheless, I hope he succeeds in making the Telegram a better and extra financially wholesome native news group. All of us ought to. However, given the occasions of … Read the rest
Within the closing, bitter-sweet, episode of the Blackadder collection ~ ‘Blackadder Goes Fo(u)rth’ ~ the comedy out of the blue, unexpectedly, however quite rightly and appropriately, turns very critical. It is 1917, within the trenches of France, and the team are about to go ‘excessive’.