[aculeus]

Full article is behind WSJ Subscription wall ... but you've got the good news.

[fatnotlazy]

Here's hoping, if the Boston Globe is headed for the trash heap, the Times isn't far behind.

[Man50D]

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.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Newspapers will be the town cryers of this century.

[Brilliant]

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.

[Chickensoup]

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?

[MelonFarmerJ]

"Whatever ails our industry got to Boston first," says Ken Chandler, editor of the rival newspaper, the Boston Herald. "It's the Internet. It's all the choices people have for their time."

And so it begins, the slow spiral into the trashcan of history. Internet vs. print, by the components: News for the news junkie??? 12 to 24 hours stale in a newspaper. Opinion? Slanted to the editors' political leaning, now available in every imaginable viewpoint. Weather? The same. Financials? No contest, Internet hands down. Classifieds? Targetable and searchable via the Internet. Comics? The entire galaxy available, not just those deemed politically correct. (like Doonsebury on the family comics page.)

The Internet truly is all things to all people. About the only thing the newspapers still have going for them are the broadside sales advertisements (supermarket inserts, etc.) which present a large amount of easily scanned data quickly, and obituary notices, ditto. The sales inserts/coupons can be delivered by the Internet (targeted, of course), and for the obits? Well, there's always the local newspaper......

[Uncledave]

ping

[Hattie]

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?

[Nathan Zachary]

""Whatever ails our industry got to Boston first," says Ken Chandler, editor of the rival newspaper, the Boston Herald. "It's the Internet."

Well then, isn't it time you blamed Al Gore? After all, he invented this disaster...

[Libertarian444]

Keep the Sports page. FIRE everybody else.

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.bobbydarin.net/mackie.mp3

Mack the Knife is Back!:

Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And it shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe
And he keeps it … ah … out of sight.

Ya know when that shark bites, with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves, though, wears old MacHeath, babe
So there’s nevah, nevah a trace of red.

Now on the sidewalk … uuh, huh … whoo … sunny mornin’ … uuh, huh
Lies a body just oozin' life … eeek!
And someone’s sneakin' ‘round the corner
Could that someone be Mack the Knife?

A-there's a tugboat … huh, huh, huh … down by the river don’tcha know
Where a cement bag’s just a'droopin' on down
Oh, that cement is just, it's there for the weight, dear
Five'll get ya ten old Macky’s back in town.

Now, d'ja hear ‘bout Louie Miller? He disappeared, babe
After drawin' out all his hard-earned cash
And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor
Could it be our boy's done somethin' rash?



Now … Jenny Diver … ho, ho … yeah … Sukey Tawdry
Ooh … Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Oh, the line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky’s back in town.

Aah … I said Jenny Diver … whoa … Sukey Tawdry
Look out to Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Yes, that line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky’s back in town …

Look out … old Macky is back!!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I cancelled by Globe subscription after that outrageous May, 2004 article running internet porn purporting to be photos of GIs raping Iraqi women.

Never looked back.