>>people from all walks of life looking for sex
The Boston Penis.
>>converting the Phoenix into a glossy magazine in the hopes of attracting high-end advertisers that had traditionally disdained the scruffy newspaper.
That tricky deal of appealing to both Yuppies and Occupiers. The Phoenix posted a vid on YouTube of occupiers next to the Fox 25 Boston studios: "This is what democracy looks like!," they chanted. Well, this is what bankruptcy looks like, folks.
Thanks Barack!
Last year they sold their radio station WFNX to Clear Channel for $14.5 million. (It's now a dance station, Evolution 101.7). The schadenfruede came from the fact that the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil corporation Clear Channel (aka Cheap Channel, but many of their stations do quite well running cons. talk including Rush) was the buyer. So much for "Occupy" radio!
Local media needs to reinvent itself. In my wife’s hometown a local entrepreneur created a web based “newspaper” that had not only local print stories, but short video clips of the local high school games, a video weather cast and even some short local interest interviews. Sadly local advertisers were skeptical and didn’t want to commit to ads and selling subscriptions to the site didn’t work either. However, I thought the concept was fantastic and maybe just a little too far ahead of the time.
The Boston Phoenix is disgusting. I will be glad to see it go.
Apparently, it is better to be RED and DEAD!
Bullstalin.
The Boston Phoenix was free on college campuses at least going back to 1985. Only visitors who didn't know better would actually pay for a copy of the alternative weekly hippie-sex-rag back then. It was free in BIG stacks at record stores, in college student union buildings and elsewhere.
60+ colleges in the vicinity.
Village Voice publications are currently experiencing scandal from investigations into human trafficking and minor solicitation in regards to their escort ads.
These publications thrive on their sex ads.
The Phoenix was “cool” in the Sixties, but has been an anachronism ever since.
Its very comprehensive and thorough entertainment section has, for a looooong time, been the only reason to pick up the rag - assuming you could stand the snotty and Leftist movie reviews.
Meanwhile, most of those “hippies” who read it after dropping acid and dropping out of society, dropped back in and became business people who now read The Wall Street Journal.