Boston Globe to go out of Business?

The Boston Globe , owned by the wildly successful New York Times (sarcasm alert), is in a LOT of trouble. They have over the past few years cut staff, redesigning the paper (read cheaper), and stopped coverings a lot of international/national events (using NYT feeds instead). Now another major round of layoffs this week.

The Globe will soon be gone in my opinion. How can this happen? We can blame the Internet, 24/7 cable news shows, or even the lack of government aid (yup sarcasm again). Buy, how is the cross town rival, Boston Herald, still doing ok and actually increasing distribution??? NY Times just announced pay cuts again and more layoffs...

Now the Herald is owned by same owners as the New York Post (and looks fluffy like it). Globe owned by NYT and their bias is so bad that even liberal bastions like Massachusetts and New York City are running from them. There is nothing wrong with having an opinion, heck I think smart people read different papers to get all sides. However, when every article is not reported as news but as filled with political bias people get pissed and stop reading.





posted by Peter Greene