5 Other Reasons the Boston Globe Faces Closure

[Doug Drown]

No, I guess I don't get it.  The present-day Herald, however far-removed 
journalistically and (as it were) genealogically from the old Herald, isn't 
in any way its legal successor?   -Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@myfairpoint.net>
Cc: "BRI+" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: 5 Other Reasons the Boston Globe Faces Closure


> On 12 Apr 2009 at 19:24, Doug Drown wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> No you still don't get it.  What was the Herald DIED in 1972.  Joined
> the Boston Transcript, the Boston Post, and the New York Herald-
> Tribune, World Telegram, Journal-American, and Daily Mirror in that
> Great Newsroom in the Sky.  What was the Record American continues to
> use the Herald name but is NOT a continuation of the old Herald.
>
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