As to the Herald, I find the quality of writing painful to read at times. Tabloid or not, it’s something that you folks need to work on. The mere fact that the Herald is a tabloid, does not mean that the writing should be sub standard.

Of course, unlike the Globe, the Herald never printed my credit card information and used the paper to wrap bundles of their rag. That was followed by a tepid at best effort to repair the damage by offering us a lower price, but no real protection from the potential of ID theft.

While I have some sympathy for the Globe printers &c. (NOT the editors or “reporters”) who will be losing their jobs soon, my overall response to the Globe’s impending demise is: Good riddance.

Every day starts with The Herald for me, and has for at least 20 years-although 20 years ago my day used to start at about 3:00PM but that’s another story…

“mountebanks ” Brilliant! (and so true)

Keep kicking their asses.

Whenever I think of the Globe or the Times I always think of the scene in Tale of Two Cities where an evil doer is found with a knife driven into his chest that pins a note to his flesh. The note reads, “Drive him fast to his tomb.”

I am now enjoying my rich, creamy helping of schadenfreude. Want some?

I tried, I really did, I TRIED to read the Globe over the last few years. The editorial page is bad enough. I mean, could the Globe NOT find anyone better than noted blowhard Hugh David Scott Greenway (because one name is never enough!), sophmoric Scot Lehigh, and the always logically challenged Derrick Z. Jackson? You mean there is NO ONE out there better than them?

Puh-leeeze.

I left the Globe when I noticed the “hard news” pages sounded like a Jackson column on a routine basis. That’s when I realized I’d rather stick needles in my eyes than read the Globe again.

Sure, bad managment at the Globe was a problem and a contributing factor. But I really believe that “personnel is policy” and it is personnel that is the reason the Globe is going down the tubes. If you hire people who consistently demonstrate they cannot bear an idea not in complete agreement with their own, then give them 8 column inches 3 times a week to prove it – you’re just signing your own pink slip.

In this case, the Globe’s “policy” was to mock the beliefs of a huge potential readership. They did this by totally abandoning any pretense of objectivity – all the while insisting they were objective. Yes, personnel IS policy.

To quote Dr. Phil, “So how’s that working out for you?

Good riddance to the Globe. The bonus is that Dan Shaughnessy will never write a Boston sports column again. Oh! Sweet, sweet justice….

The big difference that I see is that the Herald does it’s own work, and is it’s own paper, whereas the Globe is the poor sibling of the Grey Lady. As such, she mouths only what she is taught, and allowed to say. The kept child of a wayward lost woman.

I much prefer the Herald’s style, and it’s honest reporting. I say that not because this is your site, nor from some pandering ideal, but because I truly feel I am getting real reporting, well written and backed by research, rather than being spoon-fed the party line and the same regurgitated AP schlock that I can get through Google or any other national rag,