What hath Pinch wrought?

[Ian David]

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

The Boston Globe is about to undergo another round of buy-outs that will be devastating to what was once a great newspaper -- before The New York Times came to town.

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Eileen McNamara is bolting for academia. That moves follows a similar one in the last round from investigative reporter extraordinaire Walter Robinson. Also rumored to be looking to the door are veteran reporters and editors such as Steve Kurkjian, Charles Radin, Bob Turner and Peter Howe.

The only good news is that rumors about the demise of business columnist Steve Bailey are false.

Bitter comments from Globe haters aside, this round cuts even deeper into the muscle of a newspaper that could once proclaim itself among the nation's elite. The impact of the previous cuts can be found in a drastically smaller news hole, the demise of the national desk and all foreign bureaus and a brain drain that has robbed the newspaper of its institutional memory.

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