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Times Finds Boston Globe Hasn't Published In Months

Times Finds Boston Globe Hasn't Published In Months
At the once-harried offices of the Boston Globe

BOSTON (CAP) - Embarrassed New York Times executives, in preparing for an impending sale of their New England media group including the Boston Globe, were surprised to discover this week that the Globe hadn't published a daily print edition in more than two years.

"We knew things weren't great up there, but we thought they were at least still publishing," said New York Times spokeswoman Ellen Murphy. "You'd think we'd have gotten a phone call, an email, something..."

Apparently the people at the Times weren't the only ones who failed to notice when the Globe ceased publication. A CAP News survey of 5,000 Boston-area residents found that more than 90 percent of them had no idea the Globe had stopped printing, and most of the ones that did were former Globe employees, homeless people who had been using the paper for blankets, or papier mache aficionados.

For his part, former Globe editor Marty Baron said he was surprised how few people caught wind of the Globe's demise.

"I'm pretty sure we put something in that last issue about it," said Baron, now a publicity spokesman for IKEA Furniture. "I don't remember where it was, but definitely in the A section somewhere."

"That would probably explain why nobody saw it," Murphy responded, noting that most readers the Globe had left tended to read only the so-called G section, where the comics are.

The Globe has continued to publish content online via Boston.com, "mostly links to stories on the Huffington Post," noted Boston-area media critic David O'Kennedy. He added that the fact the Globe no longer exists could "seriously hurt the Times' chances of getting a good price for it."

- CAP News Staff
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