34. Globe held on to the Doug Ford drug dealing story for months and months, till Gawker and Star forced their hand.
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35. As a news consumer, I really feel like Globe doesn't want to share news with me. It wants to hoard news, and portion it out.
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36. Globe doesn't see its job to give readers news, but to act as gatekeeper between readers and news.
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37. The Globe sees itself as the paper of record. I hate to offend anyone's amour propre, but that just ain't so guys.
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38. The "paper of record" model is based on a readership demographic that is very old and, to be blunt, dying.
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39. Rather than shore up a model that is literally dying and sniff at Gawker, why not try to see these new experiments as offering a future?
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40. Further, even if "paper of record" model still viable, to make it work you gotta report news people actually want to read.
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41. Also, if you still want to be a "paper of record" maybe not have a star columnist who is a plagiarist & climate denialist.
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@HeerJeet Every time I turn to Globe's op-ed pages, I realize they have no interest in speaking to people who look like me.2 replies 2 retweets 0 likes
@EmpressMarket Fair point. I brought that up on recent Canadaland podcast.
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