40 years ago - Boston became a 2 newspaper town

[Karen McTrotsky]

It would be a grievous error to base understanding of the Ch. 5 case
entirely on the behavior of the Globe and the Kennedys as some
quick-and-dirty histories based on secondary sources do (especially when
they lapse into the unsubstantiated claim of Eisenhower administration era
FCC commissioners "with close ties to Kennedy")

Missing entirely from present-day accounts is any reference whatever to
Herald-Traveler Corp.'s considerable political muscle. We never see
mention  in  reviews of the WHDH affair of the owners of H-T Corp. The
"Yankee Republican" Boston Herald was owned by the same group of folks who
owned United Shoe Machinery Corp of Beverly, a Yankee Republican owned
industrial concern with considerable muscle. The other United States
Senator at the time was Leverett Saltonstall, Yankee Republican from
Beverly Farms. Both Kennedy and Saltonstall needed friends in newspapers
and, to a lesser extent, in the new medium of television as neither had won
50 percent of the vote in the elections in the ethnic Democrat vs. Yankee
Republican senate races of Lodge-Kennedy in '52 or Saltonstall-Furcolo in 56