Report: 34 Editorial Employees Accept 'Boston Globe' Buyout Offer

Editor & Publisher ^ | 11/22/05 | E&P Staff

[abb]

Is it me, or does the demise of the ToM (Tired old Media) seem similar to the History Channel story about the spread of the Black Death during the Middle Ages.

All that suffering... my, my.

[Crawdad]

Who is that guys wife?

[Radix]

Every time I go into a store that sells newspapers, there is a pile of unsold Boston Globes. It does not matter where I go, there are always a stack of Globes. The only exception for a very long time was on the day after the Red Sox won the series last year. Hooray.

I used to buy the Sunday edition on occasion, but during this last year I stopped, and unless linked, I do not frequent their web site.

The Boston Globe is a subversive newspaper. I am enjoying the crash and burn circumstance for that rag.

[IronJack]

I've read Daniel Dafoe's Journal of the Plague Year, which describes the despair and insanity that pervaded London and the outskirts during the Black Death of 1665. You're right; there are a lot of chilling similarities. There were a lot of idiotic "solutions" proposed, most of which did nothing but make things worse. There were those who refused to accept the reality, and danced around like nothing was wrong. There were others who huddled in their rooms and cursed their fate, trying to fix the blame anywhere they could for a circumstance far beyond their meager ability to comprehend.

Yes, your comparison is apt.

[pabianice]

Always a hit on the waterfront!

[rlmorel]

Ahh. Put a smile on my face today!