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

[Bill O'Neill]

A. Joseph Ross wrote:
> Or reading the paper on the T while commuting to and from work.

I was reading the three-star Herald on the commuter rail from Lowell to 
Boston and it it looked like I was done with it. An older gent came up 
to me and said, "You done with the Record?" 

Here in Addison County, we have two papers, one is a weekly (Eagle), the 
other is Mon & Thurs (Addison Independent and the Monday is threatened I 
hear).  It took the longest time for me to get used to no daily papers 
to read. I consider the Rutland Herald and Burlington Free Press 
redundantly left in a same-thinking climate. No risk, no challenge to 
prevailing thought, etc.)  There is no Internet substitute for the 
paper.  They each surve a purpose. Inevitable that we will not have an 
option.

Bill O'Neill