Can’t wait for the Boston Glob to go out of business.

[rogersmithiii]

How Maine can start fixing its gun laws - The Boston Globe

Last week’s Lewiston bloodbath is fast becoming a national case study in how one state’s porous system of firearms regulation made it far too easy for a gunman to kill 18 people.

www.bostonglobe.com

 

[ProGun]

Well, I'm disappointed. I was hoping to hear they ARE going out of business. Won't give them the click to read any of the garbage they print. Paper is absolute trash.

 

[rep308]

It basically did go out of business and was bought by John Henry, the Red Sox owner, as a toy for his wife.

From Wikipedia:

......it was sold to The New York Times in 1993 for $1.1 billion, making it one of the most expensive print purchases in U.S. history.[7] The newspaper was purchased in 2013 by Boston Red Sox owner John W. Henry for $70 million from The New York Times Company, having lost over 90% of its value in 20 years.

 

[usp45ct]

Nice…so the age old axiom still applies
How do you make $70 Million in the newspaper business? Buy it for $1.1b.

 

[TJ4]

Stop reading them and linking their articles, then they will get fewer hits on their website and that in turn will turn away advertisers.

 

[HorizontalHunter]

Well, I'm disappointed. I was hoping to hear they ARE going out of business. Won't give them the click to read any of the garbage they print. Paper is absolute trash.

”Too big to fail” will be applied and it will be run with our tax dollars.

 

[M1911]

I truly despise the Boston Globe. That said, it is good for Boston to have two newspapers. Once a city is down to a single newspaper, the quality of that newspaper goes completely into the toilet, even further than the Globe is now.

So as much as I hate the Globe and refuse to read it, I think it is important that it stays around, because if the Globe goes under then the Boston Herald will go to crap.

 

[rep308]

I truly despise the Boston Globe. That said, it is good for Boston to have two newspapers. Once a city is down to a single newspaper, the quality of that newspaper goes completely into the toilet, even further than the Globe is now.

So as much as I hate the Globe and refuse to read it, I think it is important that it stays around, because if the Globe goes under then the Boston Herald will go to crap.

Go spend $4.50 on the Sunday herald and then tell me it isn’t crap now.

 

[M1911]

Go spend $4.50 on the Sunday herald and then tell me it isn’t crap now.

Take a look at a paper from a single paper market, like the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

 

[rogersmithiii]

The Worcester Telegram is a complete joke. Mostly junk news from outside the state of Mass.

 

[late08]

I truly despise the Boston Globe. That said, it is good for Boston to have two newspapers. Once a city is down to a single newspaper, the quality of that newspaper goes completely into the toilet, even further than the Globe is now.

So as much as I hate the Globe and refuse to read it, I think it is important that it stays around, because if the Globe goes under then the Boston Herald will go to crap.

You mean like what we have in Maine?

 

[M1911]

You mean like what we have in Maine?

I don't know the Maine media market. But the principle is straightforward -- monopolies tend not to care about providing good service. Competition is generally better for the consumer than a monopoly.