Somewhat OT: Times Co. threatens to shutter Boston Globe.

[Donna Halper]

At 01:31 PM 4/5/2009, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>Newspapers simply have not recovered from Craigs List which just
>destroyed small classifieds. Monster has taken the bulk of major
>employment ads and that is where papers made their profit.

There's also consolidation-- Boston newspapers used to have huge 
circulars from Jordan Marsh (gone), Filene's (gone), Filene's 
Basement (in big trouble financially), Zayre's (gone), Lechmere 
(gone)... you get the idea...And with car companies in trouble, the 
newspapers are really struggling to find those big advertisers who 
used to keep them going in the past.