5 Other Reasons the Boston Globe Faces Closure

[Don A]

5 Other Reasons the Boston Globe Faces Closure
http://hightalk.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/5-other-reasons-the-boston-globe-faces-closure/

This article has been making it's way around the blogs.  There have been a 
lot of so-called 'experts' who have speculated on why the Globe is in the 
spot it is, but the truth is that almost every major newspaper is in a bind.

But the Globe takes some responsibility for some of theirown mistakes.  This 
guy seems to get it all down on paper.  It's a good read, especially this 
line:

"...they began to write specifically for this class of people - mostly white 
and affluent and living in the Boston suburbs. They became obsessed with 
real estate, gourmet cooking, home decorating, Harvard University, 
technology gadgets, travel, restaurants and child care. The content was 
often maddeningly skewered to this wealthy suburban audience often assuming 
that every reader faced the same challenges when redesigning a 
1,000-square-foot kitchen or throwing a dinner party for 18 after a 
Tanglewood concert. This was the ultimate betrayal of the Globe's working 
and blue-collar readers."

http://hightalk.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/5-other-reasons-the-boston-globe-faces-closure/