BOSTON GLOBE to publish fake news, in lampoon Trump edition of Sunday paper...

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BOSTON GLOBE to publish fake news, in lampoon Trump edition of Sunday paper...

4/9/2016 - http://drudgereport.com

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[bsteadman]

Boston Globe Tries, Fails Miserably with Fake Anti-Trump Front Page; Here’s Why

Mediaite
By Joe Concha
4/10/2016

Excerpt:

The Boston Globe — once a proud, profitable publication — is reaching the end of its rope. The New York Times once tried to save the Globe in 2001 and sold it three ago at a 95 percent loss (NYT paid $1.1 billion while only fetching $70 million upon selling it). Its delivery woes after hiring a new California-based company were so apparent this year that its own writers had to help pitch in to get the paper to their final destinations. Job cuts via buyouts and layoffs continue to shrink the paper to a skeleton of its former self. Circulation and revenue have suffered as a result, as the Globe doesn’t even rank in the Top 20 on the circulation front, trailing much smaller cities/regions evidenced by it getting beat by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Las Vegas Review.

Most papers are struggling in a digital media age, that’s understood. But the Globe has won 23 Pulitzers since 1966, including in 2003 after its investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church that spawned 2015’s Best Picture winner in Spotlight (my review here). Most impressive about the movie? The professionalism and meticulous nature of its reporters and their allergy to all-things sensational and phony.

And those two words serve as an appropriate transition to what the Globe has become as evidenced by its front page full of fake news this morning in its Ideas section in a pathetic effort to save a sinking ship (conveniently leaked to the Drudge Report yesterday to create buzz in advance). The sole focus, of course, is Donald Trump… and what would happen to the country in the eyes of the Globe editorial board if he somehow won the presidency.

The horrible hypotheticals — which are all based on Congress or the Senate having no say in Trump proposals actually becoming law — include screaming headlines of, “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN: President Trump calls for tripling of ICE force; riots continue,” while other stories include “Markets sink as trade war looms,” “US soldiers refuse orders to kill ISIS families,” and “Trump on Nobel prize short list.” And of course, no Trump story is complete without mentioning Fox’s Megyn Kelly, who is relegated in 2017 to tweeting from a bar because she has been placed on a White House black list. As someone whose mother’s maiden name was Gallagher, the Irish-shaming of Kelly by portraying her as someone who turns to alcohol when times are tough is shameful, by the way (sarc).
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