Comments on: Every other story in The Boston Globe is about Aerosmith http://trueslant.com/davidknowles/2009/11/09/every-other-story-in-boston-globe-is-about-aerosmith/ When New Crushes Old - by David Knowles Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:18:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Leor Galil http://trueslant.com/davidknowles/2009/11/09/every-other-story-in-boston-globe-is-about-aerosmith/comment-page-1/#comment-1668 Leor Galil Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:06:32 +0000 http://trueslant.com/davidknowles/?p=2816#comment-1668 It's more than just the new media landscape that's been bearing down on the Globe - for a solid chunk of the year, the very future of the paper was up in the air, with the New York Times threatening, well, to do just about anything they wanted with the paper. And even though the Times made the decision to keep the paper, the Times Co's ownership of the Globe has, over the years, sort of made the Globe redundant. It's also made the Globe really focus its energies on the local... In fact, the Globe's localized blogs have been expanding, and it's coverage of Kennedy's death was just about as in-depth as you could imagine. So, considering a large chunk of the Globe's main coverage over the past few years has been sports (the Sox, Celtics and Patriots championships no doubt helped the paper out a bit), something like a musical institution like Aerosmith is - for better or worse - a local news story with a lot of pull. Also, 10 more summer movie ballads should do the trick! It’s more than just the new media landscape that’s been bearing down on the Globe – for a solid chunk of the year, the very future of the paper was up in the air, with the New York Times threatening, well, to do just about anything they wanted with the paper. And even though the Times made the decision to keep the paper, the Times Co’s ownership of the Globe has, over the years, sort of made the Globe redundant.

It’s also made the Globe really focus its energies on the local… In fact, the Globe’s localized blogs have been expanding, and it’s coverage of Kennedy’s death was just about as in-depth as you could imagine. So, considering a large chunk of the Globe’s main coverage over the past few years has been sports (the Sox, Celtics and Patriots championships no doubt helped the paper out a bit), something like a musical institution like Aerosmith is – for better or worse – a local news story with a lot of pull.

Also, 10 more summer movie ballads should do the trick!

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