[saganite]

How much are buggy whips going for these days?

[Izzy Dunne]

In true, anti-capitalist style.

[Izzy Dunne]

ne of the most well-respected media companies

One of the top maggots on the corpse.

[muir_redwoods]

Why would anyone buy a newspaper? Either a single copy or an entire company neither makes any sense.

[ronnie raygun]

A bargan for an anti capitolist liberal progressive

[libertarian27]

The building is probably worth more than that.

[newnhdad]

If they pay more than a bag us used baseballs, they got ripped off.

[Red in Blue PA]

Schadenfreude

[Yo-Yo]

How do you become a millionaire? Start with a billion dollars and buy the Boston Globe.

[bert]

The New York Times is antiprogressive. The sale of the Globe means no more capital gins taxes for life.

[OrangeHoof]

Some teams go to extreme lengths to buy favorable press coverage. Think the Globe will be critical of the Sawx now?

[OldPossum]

Newspapers have faced difficulties in recent years as advertisers have moved more ads online.

Oh, is that so? No other reason, I guess. Well, let's ignore their political stances which turn off a lot of people; that has nothing to do with the situation.

[AlexW]

I doubt that there is a newspaper left in America that is worth the paper that it is printed on.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I bid two bits.

[I want the USA back]

“award-winning journalism”

The awards came from other left wing journalists, and are worth nothing.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Boston Snow Globe

[bjc]

I have always said that the only reliable facts in the Boston Globe are the ball scores and even then you need to find another source.

[FreedomPoster]

Just doing the math, that’s a -12.9% ROI over 20 years.

Stupid ought to hurt. Too bad they were able to cover it up for so many years.

[Long Jon No Silver]

Wouldn’t bother wrapping fish n’ chips in that rag. If I was camping out though, I would use it to wipe the the old you know whatsy. Love you freepers. That’s my ten cents worth from the land down under. 100 per cent Aussie beef.

[SamAdams76]

Does anybody remember those metal newspaper vending boxes that used to be everywhere? You would put a quarter or two into the box, pull a handle, and take out a newspaper. In the Boston area, you used to see yellow boxes for the Herald and green boxes for the Globe. Also, USA Today used to have all those white boxes with blue trim.

Anyway, these newspaper vending boxes are going the way of pay telephone booths. Besides, they charge so much these days that most people don't have the pocket change to buy one even if they wanted to.

The newspaper industry is in its dying throes. In 1994, you could still rent a videotape at a corner drugstore but you just knew that industry was on its way out, especially when the selections were "Karate Kid", "Toto - Live in Concert" and "Ernest Goes To Camp."

Well you can still buy a newspaper but you might want to shrink wrap it and put in up in your attic. Might be a collectors item someday, when our grandchildren grow up and want to see what a printed newspaper looked like. They will gaze at it in puzzled fascination in the same manner that we like to see "Mad Men" on TV when women used to wear dresses to work and men wore those funny looking fedora hats when they went outside. (Two cheers for having mini-bars in your office at work!)

Speaking of advertising ("Mad Men"), the newspaper is quickly becoming irrelevant. If you want to sell your boat (and what boat owner doesn't?), you would post your ad on Craigslist or some other website like that. Not in your local newspaper, which nobody reads. Or at least not anybody with enough money to buy a boat.

About the only newspaper worth anything these days is the Wall Street Journal and they appear to have stayed ahead of the curve with respect to having an online presence. Their web-based newspaper is first rate. But even they try to get you to take their print edition as well, even though the WSJ print edition is difficult to ready on my backyard picnic table because the wind keeps blowing it all over the place and bugs climb all over it. It's also tough to turn the pages and get them back folded again where it looks neat and tidy. It's so much better to just take my tablet to the picnic table and read the WSJ that way.