Boston Globe Mayday

Posted on 30. Apr, 2009 by admin in For Students, New Media

And no one is answering the distress call. The Red Sox just said ‘no thanks’ today to the idea floated that they could be a white knight. Baystate lawmakers sent a letter to the New York Times chairman pleading for a solution to “preserves the newspaper for the future.” What exactly do representatives in Congress not understand about the money has run out? Perhaps the concept of the federal deficit – just spend more money than you have? And the Boston Globe union members are fractioned amongst themselves about the NYT (the Globe’s mothership) demand for $20M in union concessions to keep the newspaper open – deadline tomorrow! Ad sales reported down 31%, subscribers are thinned out and the Boston Globe is projected to lose $85M in 2009. This is an unfortunate situation that has been brewing for a while and now it is the 11th hour. One Globe columnist doesn’t think the newspaper will ‘pull the trigger.’ For 137 years, the Globe has been printing newspapers with a reputation for stellar investigative journalism and left-leaning politics, and many of us would be sad to see it shut down. (I read it online only now except for Sundays) I do think, however, if it does roll up the presses, the opportunity exists for regional and local community newspapers to become more of a factor in our everyday lives and believe it or not, those reporters are as capable and motiviated to uncover wrongdoing as any Globe reporter today.

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