5 Other Reasons the Boston Globe Faces Closure

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 11 Apr 2009 at 16:03, Doug Drown wrote:

> 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
 
The big problem in your argument is that the Herald that was 
traditionally the voice of the Republican Protestant Yankees went out 
of business in 1972, after it lost the license for channel 5.  It 
sold its name and physical plant to Hearst's  Record American, which 
had been a tabloid and became a broadsheet (The "Herald Traveler 
Record American") for several years.  Eventually it returned to its 
tabloid roots and shortened the name to the Herald American.   That 
was the paper that Rupurt Murdoch bought circa 1982 and re-named the 
Herald.  

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