Bring the Globe back to Boston!

Seriously, the Globe is a shadow of itself before the NY Times took it over. Gone are so many of the things that made the Globe not only great, but one of the Ten Best in the US, year after year. Ever hear of the Globe getting ayone's praises since the Times took it over? Me neither.

Time to get the NYC monkey off our backs. While Boston once proudly had Jordan Marsh, Filene's, and The Boston Globe, we now have lost those famed local institutions. And we are poorer for it.

I hope whoever buys the Globe brings back some of the things that were scrapped, things that made the paper a joy to read - in it's "dead tree" form. There is still nothing like reading a newspaper "cover to cover" Even with the Internet, there is still room for the paper version. but then, you need something people want to read about. It's like the NY Times bought the Globe simply so it could kill it.

And considering the bad jourbalism the Times has been doing for the past ten years, it's more than time to rid it from our shores. Just think...without the Times, we might not have gone to the war in Iraq! And the "reporters" the Times uses woul dbe doing what they were meatn to do - washing cars in some Brooklyn/Queens auto detail shop.

Bring back the Boston Globe! The real one!

More diversity in news media ownership is always a good thing.

Many of the Globe articles originate in the NY Times.  Will the "new" Globe have to pay the Times for these articles, or have their reporters create them?

Sell the land, tear down the building and put up a strip mall with a bodega and liquor store.  Let the ex employees find out how the policies they endorse affect their job prospects somewhere else. 

As a kid I grew up reading the Globe. As an adult I had the pleasure of working for the Globe on the advertising side. I was there when NY Times had all of these consultants and "Managers" come in with NO newspaper experience and watched them turn the Globe into NY Times North. I saw it first with the T&G product all the stories were by lines from AP and NYT very little regional reporting. Sadly the Globe went the same way. It's easy to blame the internet for all that has happened to newspapers. The management of NYT/BG never had a plan to deal with the loss of revenue while they were giving the content away for free on line. Category after category that were big money makers for print decreased their investment. Help Wanted, Real Estate, Education, Travel, Autos, Classified and Majors. Printing is where the costs are and the presses need to run If you want to fix the paper get rid of all the advertising that has migrated to the online world and focus on Local news with real reporting the Zone product the Globe once ran was garbage with very little newsworthy story lines and since it went to print on Thursdays for a Sunday edition. The paper needs to become interesting again. Local writers, local interest, local news. The NYT selling is probably the best thing that could happen if the paper is purchased by someone local.

Sorry to say but the days of print journalism are long gone. 

If by print journalism being gone you mean newsprint made from trees, you may be right.  But there's still a need to have intelligent reporting and analysis, even if it happens in the digital world.  None of the content creators have really figured out the economies of the digital world, really.  Look at the troubles in the music industry, in the movie industry, and so forth.  Can't say that I have a clue as to what to do or how this will play out, either.  I like the idea of strong independent reporting.  I hope that people can make a living with it.

To the Editors, With the decision of the New York Times to divest itself of the Boston Globe and allied interests, I hope this will be an opportunity to return LOCAL CONTROL to New-England's largest newspaper. I am not advocating a merger with any other media company, but I will say that as a part-time resident of Rhode Island, I continue to be impressed by the Providence Journal. The Journal is in many ways a better paper than the Globe has been since it was acquired by the New York Times, particularly in the range of the Journal's commentary pieces. You would do well to consider the strengths of the Journal as a model for a new, locally owned Boston Globe.

Let's dispense with all the diversity, local control and nonsense talk. While certainly bucking the trend away from the printed word, the Globe can succeed if 1) it restores it's once great sports page (40% of Globe readers in the 70's bought it for the sports page), 2) hire columnists who can write, entertain, educate and surprise us, not because they're diverse, male, black, gay, female, short, or tall (find us another George Fraiser or two!), 3) do what newspapers are supposed to do-- speak truth to power. It might also help if editors knew what was going on and weren't afraid to tell us, especially if it meant stepping on toes.

In the mid '90s my family got 4 or 5 daily papers, depending if I bought the Herald. The Globe, 2 local rags, and either the NYTimes or WSJ, whichever was doing a free promotion.   Since then, the Herald has gone totally tabloid, the 2 rags print nothing but press releases, the freebies are gone, and I don't look at the Globe as often. I go online occasionaly to look at headlines, and only headlines since experience has shown me pages of text or hours of talking contain no additional detail.  The only publication I pay for is the New Yorker, and that won't be renewed.

I don't think I'm worse off for it. If you won't print or broadcast news that requires reporting- as opposed to repeating- or anything interesting to grown ups, then I won't see your ads or hear who sponsors your station.

I will miss the Ideas and real estate news in the Globe, but I read Zippy online and Alex Beam probably isn't coming back ,so the hell with it.

Sunday delivery is great and I buy 1-3 copies during the week.  Print is not dead but SEVEN days per week is dead.  They should have multiple options and combinations of days a customer can select.  G is great and worth the 2 bucks alone out here in Western Mass!  I believe children must be taught to read newspapers because they'll self-select their own ignorance!