Posted on 10/19/2006 5:13:36 AM PDT by aculeus
Here's hoping, if the Boston Globe is headed for the trash heap, the Times isn't far behind.
Any article I read about the decline of the newspaper industry attributes it demise soley to the internet but fail to mention another reason is people are fed up with the bias socialist media.
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BOSTON GLOBE = CHANNELING EXPERTS AND DEMOCRATIC APOLOGISTS
If Mary Jo Kopechne had lived, she would be 64 years old.
Through his tireless work as a legislator,
(Sen. for Life) Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.
Charles Pierce, January 5, 2003 Boston Globe Magazine
How soon before the democrats demand public funding for newspapers.
I didn't like the Times the moment I found out it didn't have a comics section. :)
Newspapers will be the town cryers of this century.
You'd think that with all the liberals in Boston, they'd be raking in the bucks. I guess that the libs just don't have enough money to support all the media propaganda outlets they've set up.
Full article is behind WSJ Subscription wall ... but you've got the good news.
How is the WSJ doing? Are they financially managing to stay afloat?
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> Here's hoping, if the Boston Globe is headed for the trash heap, the Times isn't far behind.
I can't say I'm for the death of any newspaper.
The Globe needs to take off its rose-colored glasses and realize that its editorial policy, not the Internet, is killing it.
I don't understand it.
Selling to 30% of the market because of a flawed ideology results in loss of revenue and they scratch their heads in wonderment.
Put me in charge of the NY Times and I will guarantee a significant increase in revenue.
I am from the South so I can't quite figure this out. This paper seems to print what those voters in MA want to hear, based on the people they have put in office. So why is the paper not doing well? Or does the paper have to rely on right wing readers too?
I believe they're doing well. I quit their sub-only site for a while but agreed to re-up when they made an attractive offer ($79 per year but a $20 amazon gift cert as a bonus).
Their general content is tops ... and I agree with most of their editorial positions.
Speaking of the Globe writer Charlie Pierce, he just got caught in another lie.
Accuracy taking a toll on Globe scribe Pierce
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Boring Broadsheet blowhard Charlie Pierce wrote an ode to the Mass. Turnpikes toll-booth coin baskets in Sundays Boston Globe Magazine that might have been relevant - if the Pike hadnt abolished them more than three years ago!
Pierces musings, under the headline, Long Live Coins!, celebrates the use of change at the toll booth. No Fast Lane transponders for this old coot.
Thusly we quote: Coming up on the Allston tolls . . . I start doing improvised base 10 mathematics with whatever change is lying around on the front seat of the car. While paper money is easier, the coins enable me to sail up to the toll basket like the genuine Dr. J.
Occasionally, Pierce continues, I even throw the basket a head fake. Fake is the operative word here since, according to Turnpike spokesguy Jon Carlisle, the exact change baskets are no more.
The last 18 were removed in August of 2003, he told the Track. . . . "I dont know many people that are carrying a dozen or more quarters in their pocket who use the system, the former Pike chairman said at the time.
Obviously, Matt didnt know Charlie. "
http://thetrack.bostonherald.com/moreTrack/view.bg?articleid=162658
How much do you want to wager that this scribe has never even driven through a toll both? The Globe staff is full of hate America first, trust fund babies who live in the back bay and think hardship is having to watch a Sox game in the bleachers with the great unwashed.
I can't say I'm for the death of any newspaper.
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Actually, I don't like to see any business go under or see people lose their jobs. But despite their spin, if these papers fold, it will be their fault.
Put me in charge of the NY Times and I will guarantee a significant increase in revenue.
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Get rid of the bias and restore credibility. Make the paper something people want to read and learn from again...not use it to line the cat litter box.
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