The Boston Globe: Thanks for the memories, Pinch

The American Thinker Blog ^ | May 04, 2009 | Rick Moran

[Scanian]

Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post is covering the apparent demise of another ancient American newspaper; the Boston Globe.

Yes, it was a liberal rag - a laughably small minded, mini-me imitation of its parent, the New York Times. But if one believes that a city's newspapers are more than mouthpieces for one political party or another, that covering art, culture, sports, fashion, and local business is an important task beyond politics that helps unite and define a metro area - then we may be suitably chastened by the demise even of a paper that thought John Kerry was the bees knees.

Kurtz reports on the resentment felt by many Bostonians toward Pinch Sulzberger and the New York Times:

Boston residents have long resented the takeover of the Globe by a company based in New York, with which the region competes in sports, banking and cultural bragging rights.

The notion that Boston, home to some of the country's top universities, could lose its major daily would have been unthinkable before the recent nationwide plunge in advertising revenue. That dive has triggered a wave of newspaper bankruptcies and the closing of the Rocky Mountain News and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

[ClearCase_guy]

Yes, it was a liberal rag - a laughably small minded, mini-me imitation of its parent, the New York Times.

The NYT bought the Glob in 1993. That a pretty recent even, IMO. The Globe sucked long before that. I resent the whole meme that "the NYT and Pinch Sulzburger ruined the Globe". The Globe ruined itself.

[Peter W. Kessler]

How’s the Boston Herald doing?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

“But if one believes that a city’s newspapers are more than mouthpieces for one political party or another, that covering art, culture, sports, fashion, and local business is an important task beyond politics...”

That’s the problem. In the hands of leftist propagandists, ALL of those topics are reduced to nothing more than vehicles to push their leftist ideology.

May the Globe and the NY Times both be buried deep in the Yucca Mountains with all the other toxic waste.

[YankeeReb]

The entire MSM needs to be bankrupted. Could you imagine a reporter in Nixon's day asking him “What enchants you about the job of president?” or a news show host saying he got a tingle up his leg when Eisenhower spoke. It's just disgusting. The MSM is a big reason why “the 0ne’s” approval rating isn't in the crapper, because they refuse to challenge the guy. If we had any real reporters left in this country they would ask the hard question and if they were frozen out report that fact.