I would tell you how I truly feel about the Boston Phoenix closing, but that would involve using words that could only be published in the Phoenix.
A G-rated approximation, then.
Yvonne Abraham
I would tell you how I truly feel about the Boston Phoenix closing, but that would involve using words that could only be published in the Phoenix.
A G-rated approximation, then.
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Not the Phoenix's closing, but your column, Yvonne.
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I loved the Phoenix's irreverence in the best sense of that word. Excellent columns and reporters over the years. They opened the first investigations into the Catholic child sex abuse scandals. They will be missed.
"Here’s something I would like you to think about."
I thought about it. Your premise is moronic.
Here’s something I would like you to think about.
You have written a number of times that somehow the BTU and its members are to be criticized for seeking additional pay for additional time. Fact is, you’ve been pretty harsh. So let me draw an analogy, if you will, between what you’ve written today and the issue of the BTU and its insistence on more pay for more work.
Here’s what you said about the Phoenix:
“I was lucky enough to work at the Phoenix in the late 1990s. This was after the paper’s glory days, when its influence was enormous, its ad pages bursting. But it was glorious, nonetheless.
“At the Phoenix, I was surrounded by the smartest, funniest people I had ever known. None of them worked there for the pay, which was -- and here I want to reach for another cuss – inadequate, to say the least. People arrived at the Phoenix young, before life had worn down their edges and saddled them with obligations. Many of those who stayed -- the core of the place -- would take their edges to the grave, true believers who couldn’t imagine any obligation worth leaving for voluntarily…”
So you worked at the Phoenix when you were young and carefree—until you had obligations—then you moved on to a better paying job with more money. Good move for you, good move for the Globe. Great all around.
But when you talk about teachers and their union, here’s what you have had to say on 12/8/11.
“…In addition, the schools are offering a pay increase to all teachers of 5 percent over four years, in part to compensate them for the extra hour.
The union wants 10 percent over three years, and additional compensation for the extra hour. That’s right - not just a pay increase, which Stutman says they have coming anyway, but an extra bump, for moving toward a day that ought long since to have become standard…”
Consider the irony: It’s ok for you and other former Phoenix reporters to move on to a better life and position with more work and responsibilities, bit it’s NOT appropriate for other professionals to seek to improve their position. Ahhhh…
" I learned how to be a journalist there,"(at the Phoenix)..But the Globe taught you how NOT to be a journalist.