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Clash of the titans: New York Times and the Boston Globe grapple in left field.

... Charges that he has had extra-marital affair. So what? Who cares? I know I'm a little bit late on posting this vanity and I know that some people may read into this thread more than I intended but here goes. I just wish that all the Freepers posting negative remarks about Bill Clinton's sexual escapades would just shut up. The next time I see some Freeper post yet another news story regarding the rumors of Clinton's infidelity, I'm gonna go find and post a picture of the "Aw Jeez" guy. Don't you know that any and all of the...

Okay, check THIS out: I'm watching the local Sacramento news at 5:30 this morning on ABC (That just happened to be the station it was tuned to, and I don't have cable!), all of the sudden they break away to catch the live nominations for the Golden Globes. I'm thinking... WTH!?? Who gives a CRAP!! So I figure, I'll go to the FOX station, they won't be covering this garbage. WRONG!! I flip through EVERY FRICKIN' station that has local news... 3, 10, 13, 31, 40... ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, The CW! EVERY last one of them are covering the...

Who - if anyone - will try to save the Boston Globe? Ex-General Electric boss Jack Welch and retired Hill Holliday honcho Jack Connors briefly flirted with the idea a few years back. But the bloated broadsheet’s balance sheet has gotten a lot worse since then. Since January 2007, the value of the New York Times [NYT] Co.’s New England Media Group, which includes the Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, has dropped by $980 million. And the problems on Morrissey Boulevard are getting worse by the week. The Boston Business Journal recently reported that the Globe was losing...

TO HIGHLIGHT China's repressive policies, protesters are attacking the Olympic torch as it wends its way to Beijing and the summer games. It's embarrassing for the moment, but China knows the real score. In the long run, the drive for human profit always beats the drive for human rights. Massachusetts offers a tiny but telling glimpse into that broad economic reality. On April 1, University of Massachusetts president Jack M. Wilson announced an agreement with Chinese officials to offer government-sanctioned online classes in the communist nation of 1.3 billion. The deal, UMass officials said, could generate up to $5 million...

BARACK Obama has been gaining momentum in his historic bid for the White House, but a shocking new scandal could derail the Democratic Party's charismatic frontrunner. Find out how an outrageous video made by a dying Minnesota man has triggered a lawsuit against Obama's organization - and read his stunning exclusive GLOBE interview about drugs and forbidden sex.

The Boston Globe will soon announce cutbacks at the newspaper, including hundreds of layoffs, and an increase in the per copy price of the paper to 75 cents as of Feb. 1, according to several sources inside and outside of the paper. Sources informed Metro of the expected changes yesterday. Calls for comment to Globe Publisher Steven Ainsley and Executive Vice President Al Larkin Jr. were not immediately returned. The Globe saw a nearly 7 percent decrease — from 386,417 to 360,695 — in its daily circulation between Sept. 2006 and Sept. 2007, according to numbers released in November by...

Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have been endorsed by The Boston Globe editorial board ahead of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary on Jan. 8 in New Hampshire. The board wrote that Obama, the Illinois Democrat, fulfills America's need for "a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world,'' and that McCain, the Arizona Republican, ''has done more than his share to transcend partisanship and promote an honest discussion of the problems facing the United States.'' The newspaper released early excerpts of its McCain and Obama endorsements, which will be published in full in Sunday's Globe and on Boston.com. The...

At a rally in Ames, Iowa, on the eve of last weekend's straw poll, Mitt Romney invited his siblings onstage with his children and grandchildren. "Boy, we've got the whole gopher village up here," he told the crowd with a grin. "This is so much fun." "Whoop-de-do!" he says of John Edwards's proposal to let Americans save $250 tax-free. "Gosh, I love America," Romney said during one GOP debate. After hitting a long golf drive in one of his campaign videos, he shouts, "Holy moly!" Romney often sounds as if he has stepped out of a time machine from 1950s...

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Boston Globe's 7 pieces on Romney- A Pretty Good Endorsement posted by: jason | posted at: 9:50 AM | permalink here I finally had a chance to sit down and read the Globes 7 piece story on Mitt Romney. It's worth a read if you have the time. Long, but full of details. Before reading it what struck me, was the Boston Globe does a 7 article piece on Romney, and the most negative thing the public can take away from it is that Romney strapped a dog carrier to the top of his car. You would think with...

WASHINGTON - The numbers are a shock: Almost 1 billion people worldwide have high blood pressure, and over half a billion more will harbor this silent killer by 2025. It's not just a problem for the ever-fattening Western world. Even in parts of Africa, high blood pressure is becoming common. That translates into millions of deaths from heart disease alone. Yet hypertension doesn't command the attention of, say, bird flu, which so far has killed fewer than 200 people. "Hypertension has gone a bit out of fashion," says Dr. Jan Ostergren of Sweden's Karolinska University Hospital, who co-authored a first-of-its-kind...

How a new ownership model might ensure the survival of daily newspapers-including the Globe By Dan Kennedy Illustration by Nick Galifianakis Spring 2007 one of matt Storin’s last assignments before he retired as editor of The Boston Globe was to carry out a painful round of downsizing. It was the spring of 2001, and-in what has become a familiar story-circulation and advertising revenues were falling at the Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, both of which, then as now, were owned by the New York Times Company. At the Globe, the Sunday Focus and Books sections were combined and...

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Boston Globe editor Martin Baron sent the following note to the staff today concerning employee buyouts in the newsroom: To the staff: I’d like to update you on the buyout. We have accepted buyout applications from 24 of our colleagues in the newsroom. A handful of buyout applications were approved over the last several weeks, and some people already have left the Globe. The vast majority are being notified of their acceptance today, and they will leave the newsroom on various dates over the next few months. The dates have been set so that the newsroom has time to adjust...

The Democratic nominee is likely to be Barack Obama. I have followed politics far too long to fall in love, but Obama is like nothing we have seen since Bobby Kennedy and maybe since FDR. If you haven't read his first book, "Dreams from My Father," you owe it to yourself. Obama wrote the book when he was 33, having spent nearly three years as an organizer on Chicago's South Side, and then three years at Harvard Law School, where he was elected president of the Law Review. No 33-year-old has the right to such uncommon wisdom and humanity. The...

A leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination declared the debate on global warming "over" yesterday and said that the US would act to save the environment. Senator John McCain's speech at a summit on green policies indicated a crucial change in US political opinion towards climate change. "I am convinced that we have reached the tipping point and that the Congress of the United States will act with the agreement of the administration," said Mr McCain, who is a favoured candidate in next year's presidential primaries. "The debate is over, my friends. Now the question is: what do we...

The new publisher of The Boston Globe unveiled plans for a major round of job cuts at the broadsheet and its Worcester sister paper yesterday, citing a tough advertising market and circulation weakness. P. Steven Ainsley told staffers in a memo that 125 jobs would be eliminated from the Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, which make up the New York Times [NYT] Co.’s New England Media Group. About 17 jobs will be cut from the 412 in the Globe’s newsroom and two more will be trimmed from the paper’s opinion pages, a memo from Globe Editor Martin Baron...

BOSTON -- The New York Times Co. will cut about 125 positions through buyouts and other steps at The Boston Globe and the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, and outsourcing some finance and advertising work, a Globe spokesman said Thursday. About 70 of the positions will be eliminated through buyouts that will be offered to employees of the two newspapers starting late this month, Globe spokesman Al Larkin said. The buyouts will be offered to exempt and Newspaper Guild-covered employees with at least 10 years of service. Seventeen positions in the newsroom and two opinion page positions are expected to...

How do you turn a noble undocumented worker into a sinister, conniving illegal immigrant? You do it by hiring him to cut the lawn at Gov. Mitt Romney’s house, or at least that’s how the bow-tied bumkissers at The Boston Globe pulled it off. The phrase that is usually frowned upon by the Globe - illegal immigrants - was used 11 times in a front-page story Friday. Yesterday, those same dreaded “illegal immigrants” made it into the lead sentence of the follow-up story. So when did Pat Buchanan get hired as a rewrite man on Morrissey Boulevard? Just a few...