Globe trims local coverage

Yes, journalism helps circulation, which supports ad sales, but other factors are at work here. Instead of reading the newspaper on the bus or train, so many are playing with cell and especially phones. People, generally rather do something else than read a newspaper. For old cranks like me, writing comments online take much less time than emailing letters to the editor, with more immediate feedback!

I used to support pre-press software and had newspapers for customers. Car ads were a major source of revenue for papers and the graphics had to come out right. Want to support journalism, buy more cars! Sunday's Help Wanted section was another cash cow, now gone.

Your Town, Wicked Local, and Patch coverage has all been spotty, depending on the neighborhood. Wicked Local screwed up on its new comments, Patch screwed up with too many non-new items and open house stories, and Your Town seems to have few stories and reporters not going after them.

Any journalists want to do a story on how the main cemetery in a town is getting used as a parking lot and the cemetery commission doesn't care? How many readers outside Arlington would care enough to be worth the print inches?

I do read it for other reasons.. I'm a big Inside Track person. Ooops sorry that's the herald. Oh wait, I like reading about happenings on a Friday around the city.. oh wait, that's the Metro. OH I know, I like to keep up with GLBT news.. oh wait that's Boston Spirit.

Gee there really isn't any real need to read the Globe anymore.

Wicked Local's coverage for the towns around Boston may still be good, but the Allston-Brighton Tab has become a complete waste of time, at least in its online incarnation.

I'm not holding my breath. Gatehouse media owns Wicked Local & they just went bankrupt. I'm not convinced that some of those smaller papers survive the restructuring in any recognizable way.

I like blogs...Universal Hub is one of many I read every day. But I'm pretty sure Adam would agree that if the Globe disappeared it would be a big loss to Boston, the whole region, and for that matter to UHub.

Personally I think the Globe has improved since Brian McGrory became editor, but I've always liked reading it and I hope they find a way to continue whether on the printed page or digitally.

while she was attacking Romney for being clueless about the illegals working on his Belmont lawn, she had illegal Brazilians she KNEW were undocumented working on HER lawn. The hypocrisy was stunning. That, and the whole preaching about LGBTQ issues thing. If you want to concentrate on a minority of the population, fine. But don't whine afterwards about the mathematical implications of your decisions on your revenue. Not everyone aspires to be a hipster.