the new weekly dig makes me cry
congratulations on your four-color adsploitation program! i guess some of the good ol' content is there, but a club section?! full-page ads for BOSTON'S ONLY GAY CLUB NIGHT and STELLA ARTOIS? why, it's the same as the "improper" or the "phoenix." all three should be merged into one publicly traded entity that promotes the stereotypically sterile view of "Boston" shared by my buddies back in new york. dude, we were so drunk on lansdowne this weekend! i'll be looking for something to read.
posted by Rob at 8:05 AM
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The problem with the Dig isn't just it's oh-so-gay cleaned up look, it's that it has simply lost it's edge. I picked it up for the 1st time about 3 months before the makeover, and upon reading some of the hilarious stuff and dead-on political and social critiques, I thought to myself 'Holy Shit, real people (of course, real people who are really funny)who have the balls to tell it like it is actually have a place to spout off too!?' I loved it. A few weeks later it looked a little different, but I ignored the buyout talk and kept reading. It didn't take long for me to realize that the content had shifted. What happened to Kingsbury? (& I'm not a R or a Libertarian, it was just nice to hear someone around here rip on the pretensions of liberals besides the guy next to me at the bar) Why did every joke in media farm and in the short bits on that page all of a sudden sound like they were stolen off of Jon Stewart's script? Why the hell is there some Harvard graduate who is a mediocre writer going on and on about her frequent reunions with recent graduates that occur amidst the backdrop of "third-world" Somerville and Cambridge?(and I'm not getting into the class warfare thing, you need to use harsh reality and sometimes overstatement to be funny, but what is going on with an "alternative" paper giving clout to an Ivy Leaguer so that they can wax notalgic about the frivilous occurrences in their little, detached world? Who is that bitch reaching with that nonsense, .001% of the readers? And forget about the general population) Prior to the buyout the Dig was the only print media outlet in Boston that appeared willing to attack ALL of the "pillars" of our society that were actually vacant. Now they just regurgitate jokes about FoxNews & Bill O'Reilly.... how brilliant & ballsy they are in taking on such rarely set upon public institutions and figures! Shouldn't someone in the Dig be writing funny shit about an aloof, ditzy Harvard graduate who lives in Somerville and how she is an asshole to everyone without even realizing it? THAT would be ballsy, THAT would be original, and, if you could, with some degree of humor and clarity, convey through extrapolating from her example that such behavior is more pervasive amongst her set than in the rest of the world, well, then you might be on to something BIG. Anyway, you get my point. I hope the Dig keeps on hiring OK, unimaginative writers just because they have an Ivy League name on their resume (if not their foreheads), because then - and I know this for a fact -they will sink just like the dead weight that they have become.
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