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Globe to raise prices to $1.50 daily ‘to remain viable’
Boston Herald ^
| 04/07/09
| Boston Herald staff
Posted on 04/07/2009 10:40:34 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio
Is there that much garbage to wrap in Boston...maybe if we consider the corrupt maggots on Bacon Hill.
To: raccoonradio
I lived most of my life in Connecticut, and have worked over most of the state.
CT is not that far from Boston, yet the Globe never sold all that well anywhere in the state. The NY sports fans would pick up the NY Post or Daily News. The Boston sports fans would pick up the Boston Herald or even the Hartford Courant. Even in Rhode Island, the Globe was always there, but it was never the first paper to get.
When I was a youngster, before I was interested in politics, I would sometimes buy the Sunday Boston Herald because it must have had the best comics section in the whole country. The Sunday edition had TWO large comics sections. Now I have my own children, and I cannot let them even SEE the comics section because the content is no longer suitable for young eyes. As a result, my children will grow up without newspapers, and will probably never get in the habit.
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posted on
04/07/2009 11:23:31 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: raccoonradio
The most any big-city newspaper is worth is $0.50 -- based on its value as a substitute for fireplace logs for heat.
To: kabar
Typical liberal response. If you have trouble selling a product, you raise the price.
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Reminds me of a man I knew who was trying to sell all the equipment from a printing business he had shut down thirty years ago. He had it in a storage building and when someone asked the price he would quote a figure and then tell them that it was good only for that month because every month he was adding another month’s rent on the storage building to the price. How brilliant is that?
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posted on
04/07/2009 11:25:00 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Change has come to America and all hope is gone.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
If you increase prices 100% and lose half your readers, its true, your income from sales doesnt change. The problem is, your income from advertising goes down 50% as well. Newspapers are in a death spiral. You're right - advertisers aren't going to pay the same rate for half the readers. Do you have any solutions?
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posted on
04/07/2009 11:25:18 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(The Queen gave Obama a signed photograph. What did she give President Bush?)
To: Old North State
oh right—yes I think I meant golddigger
To: raccoonradio
Toilet paper is cheaper, and doesn’t already have crap on it!
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posted on
04/07/2009 11:41:40 AM PDT
by
Wil H
(No Accomplishments, No Experience, No Resume No Records, No References, Nobama..)
To: GOPJ
No, I’m engineering, not marketing.
Like I said it’s a death spiral.
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posted on
04/07/2009 11:41:55 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
To: raccoonradio
Hmmmmmm......which paper to buy outside my Dunkies.....let’s see....75 cents for the Herald or $1.50 for the Glob.
Which is easier to read on my subway ride? Tabloid Herald or broadsheet Glob?
Which has an easier to stomach editorial board......somewhat conservative Herald.....or outright communist Glob?
Think I’ll get the Glob...../sarc
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posted on
04/07/2009 11:44:57 AM PDT
by
ElectricStrawberry
(27th Infantry Regiment....cut in half during the Clinton years...)
To: rockabyebaby
LOL, Howie’s all over this!
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posted on
04/07/2009 12:14:25 PM PDT
by
rockabyebaby
(We are soooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
To: max americana
we had to wait until the 3rd post for the unions to be blamed!?
you guys are slipping.
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posted on
04/07/2009 12:15:56 PM PDT
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: pabianice
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posted on
04/07/2009 12:18:12 PM PDT
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: raccoonradio
How do you remain “viable” if no one buys it at the higher price? The local sheet here became essentially a newspamphlet last year and raised the Sunday price by 50% and then the weekday price by 50% and it is, of course, making less money with the higher prices. It is a Freedom Newspaper and has a strong freemarket editorial slant but its editor doesn’t seem to understand how that works out in the paper’s own situation.
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posted on
04/07/2009 12:33:20 PM PDT
by
arthurus
( H.L. Mencken said, "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.")
To: reagan_fanatic
Garbage is garbage, no matter what its valued at....no matter what it's priced at.
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posted on
04/07/2009 12:35:49 PM PDT
by
arthurus
( H.L. Mencken said, "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.")
To: raccoonradio
Too funny. As has been stated here before, folks get off the train at night, the paper boxes are still full. Raise the price when it isn't even selling at the old price. Sounds bout right for liberals, same kind of logic they use for cigg. taxes.
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posted on
04/07/2009 1:00:48 PM PDT
by
gidget7
(Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
To: raccoonradio
Typical liberal economic thinking. We’re losing money, so let’s raise prices to get more revenue.
I wonder if Howie Carr would take the Boston Globe as an entry in his death pool?
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posted on
04/07/2009 1:45:28 PM PDT
by
ssaftler
(OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: gidget7
Look on the bright side:
From an early post:
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:16:49 PM 17 of 29
NewEnglander to MartinaMisc
Taxachusetts will only elect a Republican Governor (albeit a RINO) after the Boston Globe goes out of business and the local liberal TV anchors are drawn and quartered. Also do not forget that Taxachusetts still has the Banking Queen in DC.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2188821/posts
To: RipSawyer
LOL. Sounds like the owner of a widget factory who was told by his accountant that he was losing a nickel on each widget sold. His response, “Don’t worry, we’ll make it up in volume.”
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posted on
04/07/2009 3:12:42 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: raccoonradio
What a great idea during a recession.
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posted on
04/07/2009 3:33:52 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: trisham; All
and word has it the daily paper goes up to a buck in the Greater Boston area
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