The anonymously-written blog notes, quite correctly, that the Globe abdicated its responsibility to inform the public when it pulled bulldog reporter Greg Grisolano off the Missouri Southern State University beat and shut down the newspaper's investigation of the problems with now-departed University President Bruce Speck, leaving any reporting to the Chart and the Turner Report.
For it now to claim it is a watchdog for the people smacks of hypocrisy:
It is comical that a couple of stories by Emily Younker suddenly make you the watchdog and the cheerleader all at once. And it is hypocritical to criticize those who criticize when you sent Greg Grisolano into the wilderness for requesting documents from the Speck administration during his famous “media blackout” period.You people are a joke.
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Don't be so harsh on the Joplin Globe, they don't claim to be journalists. If you check out their parent company on Wikipedia, you will see they are in the advertising sales business. They sell ads and obituaries, that's all. Community Newpaper Holdings is in the ad business, not a steward of the community.
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