Sunday, April 5, 2009

Losing Mojo on Morrissey Boulevard

Boston Globe Woes Mount as NYT threatens to reduce them to a blog.

They're learning what we all eventually learn at one time or another. You can only think you're smarter than God for a New York Minute. It's fun while it lasts but the payback is a bitch.

"New York again,'' growled Daniel Doyle, 70, of Somerville, as he stood outside Verna's doughnut shop in Cambridge, where counter staff wear T-shirts saying "still here!'' because of its own brush with closing a couple of years ago. "I didn't even know they owned the Globe. If you took the paper away and I can't read my sports, what am I getting up in the morning for?''

If the Globe goes, this dude has nothing to live for.

This was my favorite soundbyte:


Critics of the Globe, especially in anonymous comments posted on the newspaper's website, said the newspaper was falling victim not just to turbulent economic times but what they called its own "liberal bias,'' though they did not provide specific examples.

Bias? The Globe has a bias? No really, what bias? Cite an example.

Yeah. We'll get right on it.

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