This is news?
While other more capable ranters than I are verbally disemboweling the local paper for their woeful ineptitude, I'm wondering why the Boston Globe actually featured a story today about whether Patriots fans think Tom Brady should go back to Bridget Moynihan now that she's announced that she is knocked up with his baby. (The answer is a resounding yes. Because we ALL know that fans of a team get a say in the relationship and marriage decisions of the team's quarterback.)
Seriously? This is fucking news?! The random comments about his relationship status, made by random fans who happened to be shopping for souvenirs at Gillette Stadium?
Ugh. I was just saying to someone this weekend how I thought that the Boston Globe really got the balance right between being an online presence in Boston (via Boston.com) and being a serious newspaper that covered both the local investigative reporting angles and more national interest stories. I was saying it was the model that the AJC should strive for in their whole "we're gonna do the online thing right" crusade. And then I read this. I may have to withdraw the previous endorsement.
The only thing saving them from losing me as a reader forever is that they haven't devoted a page to "full coverage" of the baby news...yet. Give them time, I'm sure that if some other sordid detail of the Brady/Bundchen/Bridget+baby love triangle emerges, that they will be ALL OVER that story with graphics and photo galleries and messageboards and god knows what else.
And, lest I let an opportunity to talk about celebrity gossip go unnoticed, you TOTALLY know that the reason they broke up in December is because she told him she was pregnant. And he probably didn't want to get married and have a kid, and she did, so now she's basically calling him out for it by announcing the pregnancy while he's galivanting around Europe with that ho-bag Giselle.
(There, did that satisfy all readers of US Weekly and the Superficial?)
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Part of the problem throughout the newspaper industry is that all the execs are running around like chickens with their heads cut off, uncertain about what to do. The Internet scares them, cable news and television scares them, everything scares them. Instead of trying to fill a niche, i.e. people who want thoughtful reporting on important issues, they think the answer lies in turning everything into People magazine to try to appeal to the lowest common denominator. They don't stop to think that if someone is going to buy a copy solely because of a story such as the Tom Brady one (or Anna Nicole or whatever), they will return to buy another day to see what the city council did. A friend of mine in the newspaper business said recently that when the industry dies, it won't be because of competition, it will have committed suicide.
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