5 Other Reasons the Boston Globe Faces Closure

[Doug Drown]

Yes, I'm aware of that.  (In fact, I have a copy of the first issue of the 
Herald Traveler Record American [no wonder they later shortened the name!]). 
What was the Herald became a much different newspaper under Hearst and 
Murdoch.  -Doug



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@myfairpoint.net>
Cc: "BRI+" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 1:57 AM
Subject: Re: 5 Other Reasons the Boston Globe Faces Closure


> 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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