I used to read the Boston Globe fairly regularly back in the 50s and 60s, because my Aunt and Uncle subscribed to it as well as to the Boston Herald.
Frankly, it was a lousy newspaper back then, biased, and with very little real news. I read the NY Times when I was around NYC, and it made the Boston Globe look like some kind of small town journal.
I always liked Boston, but the Globe was nothing to write home about. It certainly wasn’t worth a billion dollars. Buying it was an act of stupid hubris.
I too, once had a subscription to the Boston Globe, but found that there was too many useless sheets of Newspaper, and found that they were soon being bundled up for recycling, without ever being read. Save A Tree, Help Global Warming, Shut Down the Boston Globe and the New York Times!