[raccoonradio]

Howie Carr/ Globe deathwatch ping

[count-your-change]

The death of an elitist, etc. newspaper isn't a problem. It's too long survival is.
Which newspaper admits it's failing financially due to failing it's readers?
Anything and everything is at fault except the newspapers them selves. So as long as they made money they congratulated themselves with Pulitzers and other such nonsense and concluded the owners and managers were brilliant. Now it's clear they never knew what they doing at all. Good riddance as a lesson of what not to do.

[Lancey Howard]

While I don’t believe this bias is as bad as many critics say it is in reality - the perception is that the Globe is a liberal newspaper - even on its news pages. The Globe hasn’t successfully put that perception to rest. This, of course, alienated many readers in the center and on the right.

This silly statement only echoes the mindset of the liberal scum who produce the Globe:
"Oh, we're not as liberal as everybody thinks we are."
"We're not really THAT liberal - - it's just people's perception."

How crass.

The perception exists for a reason.
Add #6 to the list: Self Delusion

[maryz]

Second they began to write specifically for this class of people - mostly white and affluent and living in the Boston suburbs.

Ah, the typical Globe reader . . . Let me share a couple of old memories (I haven't read the Globe in at least 10 years) of Letters to the Editor:

Susan Trausch (remember her?) once wrote a light, rather amusing column on the end of summer doldrums, when it's been too hot for too long and everything looks wilted and dry and dusty. One line: "You can even hear it in the name of the month -- Awwww-gust." I thought it was pretty good. One Globe reader wrote an utterly indignant letter protesting that "Ms. Trausch is apparently unaware that August is named for the Emperor Caesar Augustus . . ." No idea why he thought that was a relevant comment, but he was truly bent out of shape over that column!

Another time, some guy (the name Jack Thomas might be it, but might not) wrote a Sunday magazine column on his attitude toward exercise (negative, in case you were wondering). He said he hated it when his wife came into the room and put on one of her Jane Fonda workout tapes; he said his first impulse would be to duck down behind the couch, but he was afraid Jane would jump out of the video and haul him out -- clearly not a serious column weighing thoughtfully the pros and cons of exercise. This one drew several protests, exemplified by one by a (I believe) certified physical therapist, who was outraged at the bad influence such an irresponsible column would have on "our young people"!

Globe readers -- I'm proud and happy not to be one of them! ;-)

[GOPJ]

Great post. Many members of the MSM write for each other - and for “prizes”. In truth, the only prize worth having is the loyalty and respect of readers...