5 Other Reasons the Boston Globe Faces Closure

[Doug Drown]

My understanding is that the Globe, during a large part of the twentieth 
century, had a large Democrat Irish Catholic readership, and the Herald 
represented the Republican Protestant Yankees (a tradition it in part 
inherited from the old Transcript, though it was a much wider constituency 
than the Transcript's predominantly Brahmin readership).  This was certainly 
true when I was a kid; Democrats I knew bought the Globe and  Republicans 
favored the Herald.

The Hearst papers and the Post stood for working-class populism and were 
usually identified with the Democratic Party, but were actually independent.

Correct me if I'm wrong on any of this.   -Doug





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don A" <donald_astelle@yahoo.com>
To: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org>
Cc: "BRI+" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: 5 Other Reasons the Boston Globe Faces Closure


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> From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org>
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>>> "[...] This was the ultimate betrayal of the Globe's working
>>> and blue-collar readers."
>>
>> I thought the "working and blue-collar" types read the Herald...
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>
> They do now...   But that wasn't always the case.  The Globe at one time 
> had a large Irish Catholic working class consituancy.
>