Globe for sale?

So former GE honcho Jack Welch and local ad honcho Jack Connors might try to buy the Globe - for about half what the New York Times paid for it back in 1999.

Dan Kennedy, who has been arguing for a locally owned Globe for awhile now, says this might be a case of the wrong buyers at the wrong time, even if the Times agreed to sell (which it says it's not interested in). He notes that Mike Barnicle the Undead is involved and that the prospective owners are "unsure" if they'd want boston.com:

I have to say that Times Co. ownership looks pretty good compared to the Welch crowd. Perhaps my own last name will allow me to get away with a bit of ethnic profiling, but this looks like the Revenge of the Pasty-Faced Irishmen. This is Old Boston, not New Boston - a nostalgia move, about the past rather than the future.

The Outraged Liberal calmly discusses Globe issues, including what he says is an impending upturn in the local ad market (driven in part by the new Nordstrom's at the under-construction Uber-Natick Mall) and the credibility issues the new owners would face:

... Mrs. Welch, the former AP reporter Suzy Wetlaufer, doesn't have the highest ethics rating in the business after sleeping with the married man (Welch) she was interviewing for the Harvard Business Review.

In fact, about the only person with a lower credibility rating is their pal Mike Barnicle -- dumped from two local newspapers for a combination of serial plagiarism and laziness above and beyond the call of duty. Any deal that includes a revitalized Barnicle presence in Boston is a bad one. ...

Harry at Squaring the Boston Globe though, says a new regime would bring some much needed discipline to the insufferably arrogant newspaper people now running that media zoo, such as the ones who got local pols to get involved in their contract dispute with Globe management. Also:

... It it delicious to imagine the distress that Barnicle's presence at such an early discussion might cause among the self-righteous folks on Morrissey Boulevard. ...

Nobody's approached me about the deal.