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Sad, but true.  Today’s Globe has one little article on the Globe situation, basically just reprinting the publisher’s promise that cuts will extend to management as well as unions.  (They’ve also got a small item on our blog rally.)

The Herald, by contrast, has three interesting pieces today.  One, by Jessica Heslam, reports that union rank-and-file at the Globe are frustrated with their leadership’s approach to the crisis and have demanded an immediate general membership meeting.  Another, by Jerry Kronenberg and Christine McConville (didn’t she used to write for the Globe?), has more interesting numbers than any Globe piece I’ve yet seen, plus interviews with outside analysts on the situation (including former Globie Douglas Bailey) — another aspect that’s been lacking from the Globe’s coverage.  And then there’s a blistering op-ed from former Globe columnist Eileen McNamara, who lays the whole debacle at the feet of “Pinch” Sulzberger.  What kind of a nickname is “Pinch,” anyway?

I’m sure it’s awkward to cover a story that’s unfolding within your own building.  But the Globe’s not doing itself any favors by letting the Herald write the good stories on this crisis.

UPDATE: As alert BMGer Mike from Norwell notes below, the Herald has yet again beaten the Globe on the Globe’s own story, reporting an upcoming price increase before it showed up on boston.com.  That’s just embarrassing.

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  1. From the piece:

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    Blogs are often viewed as competitors of traditional media outlets and contributors to their financial woes.

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    p>By uninformed people who have little understanding of the relationship between traditional media and blogs.

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    p>My goodness.

  2. again from the Herald:

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    p>$1.50 daily, $3.50/$4.00 Sunday.  Sad to say, since I’ve been a subscriber for probably 25 years, I’m dropping my subscription.  Given the fact that delivery subscriptions actually tack on additional charges, means my 4-week bill over a little over 2 years will have gone from $31 to $50, and that for an early edition.  Netbook reading here I come…

    • from the Globe this morning, they clarify that prices will be increasing for newsstand rates only, so home delivery prices will not be increasing (for now).  At least someone thought that out (actually give an incentive to subscribe, which is a first – right now it’s actually more expensive to subscribe than pick up at the store).  Will be scratching off the call to cancel from my todo list, at least for awhile.

  3. A sharp acerbic and very funny oped in the Herald.
    Thank you Eileen. Thank you Rachelle.

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    p>Link not provided because you should buy the paper or go on line yourself.

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    p>Comparing the coverage between the Globe and the Herald every morning is one way to get a broader prospective.

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    p>Except for one thing. I think it’s the same crew of folk with undiagnosed and untreated mental health issues that start their commenting in the wee hours. Either insomniacs or night workers stealing time from their bosses.    

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    • Every now and then I nod sat the Herald Online and then let the Snark Chorus jump into the empty sand box and throw sand after I move along.

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      p>The Blogsphre isn’t for the thin skinned, anyway.

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      p>How were the Revenue Hearings – I am relying on you to report on them, albeit I know there is now streaming digi footage and will try to make time for it.  This is the 10 minute break I gave myself this afternoon – then back to paid work.  I love civic engagement but gotta pay the mortgage and have to keep a serious level of self discipline.  So, anyway, was it worth going?

    • Link not provided because you should buy the paper or go on line yourself.

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      p>Hi, welcome to the interwebs, a series of tubes.  Look, if the Herald doesn’t want people linking to its articles, it has two choices:
      1. Don’t put them online
      2. Put them behind some lamer login system like NYT.

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      p>Absent those two things, why on God’s greenish-brownish but still mostly blue Earth would you not provide the link on a blog posting?

      • is “link not provided by Judy.”  Not sure why, exactly.  But McNamara’s op-ed is linked in the main post.

  4. But what did anyone really expect? How about blaming whatever modern-day Harry Frazee sold the paper to New York in the first place?
    Traitor.

  5. It’s human nature to not want to report one’s own bad news.  Plus, the Herald is probably salivating over the prospect of outlasting the Globe.

    • but if the Globe were actually making money, then an upcoming debt payment wouldn’t be a reason for NYT to shut down the Globe, now would it?

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      p>Fail indeed.

        • a heavy debt load makes it more urgent for NYT to dump properties that are losing money.

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          p>Which of course begs the question: why is the Globe losing so much money, and what can be done about it?  That’s the point I’ve been trying to make this whole time.  Any sensible businessperson, debt-laden or not, would be trying to dump a property that’s flushing a million bucks a week down the loo.

          • What happens if they dump the paper version (besides a lot of unemployed people)? Would that help?
            I used to wonder why they kept raising the price- I thought lowering the price  might be the way to go. Sometimes lowering the price in the face of falling demand must be a good option, right? More people willing to buy at a lower price?
            I guess giving it away for free probably wouldn’t work, but how do free papers like the Phoenix stay profitable, I wonder? The hooker ads, perhaps.

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