When the New York Times Co. bought the Boston Globe in 1993 for $1.1 billion, the family-run New York newspaper said it was betting heavily on the future of the highly educated, affluent Boston market.I guess the urban crowd isn't growing.
But now that brainy, well-heeled populace turns out to be on the leading edge of a digital migration that is pummeling the Boston Globe so badly that it is on track for its first unprofitable year in its recent history, according to people familiar with the company’s finances.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Pinch's folly: The Boston Globe purchase
The American Thinker quotes a Wall Street Journal story on Pinch: