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More Globe shrinkage: City Weekly on the chopping block
By adamg on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 4:59pm
The Globe says it'll decide within a couple weeks whether to axe the Sunday section; says Boston and inner-suburb readers already get "a lot of city coverage" in the daily Metro section, the Boston Business Journal reports.
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Is the Ideas section next?
I got an online survey form asking me (among other things) whether it would be a good idea to abolish the Sunday Ideas section, moving the editorial pages to Main News and the Books pages to Arts & Entertainment.
I replied "Hell no" -- not if the newspaper wants to even pretend to serve an educated readership. If they do this, I probably will cancel my home delivery subscription.
As for City Weekly, it provides a useful supplement or counterpoint to the GateHouse weeklies' coverage of Cambridge and Somerville. These two cities would get essentially no news coverage in the Globe without the City Weekly section.
Joke?
Are they kidding? Now what is the reason for a Boston resident to buy the Globe? They have bounced jobs from its Morrisey Blvd operations and now are excluding the only section, albeit small section, that speaks to everyday Boston. Sad that more of an uproar will most likely come from the Idea section crowd. Where will all the "educated" readers turn to now for the information that fill up all their vapid conversations?
City Weekly is already less than it should be
All of the Globe's suburban zoned sections come out twice a week, Thursdays and Sundays.
Instead of cutting out our weekly and leaving us with no news coverage, how about giving us a Thursday section too?
That figures
I'll admit it. Earlier this year, I finally cancelled my weekday subscription. There just wasn't enough interesting content left in the paper to justify the expense. I can't rely on it for national or international news, which it's largely ceased covering; its local reporting has atrophied; and the sports was all that was holding me. And the truth is, the teams I really follow, I follow online. The childhood thrill of checking the box score over breakfast is long gone - these days, I see it before I go to sleep, or when I switch on my computer in the morning.
I kept my Sunday subscription, though. I love the Ideas section - it's actually superior to the Times' Week in Review, albeit slightly thinner. And there's no substitute for the City Weekly - it's not as if the Metro covers my side of the Charles (Cambridge/Somerville) in any particular depth. There are other interesting things sprinkled through the Sunday edition - the Magazine tends to have a few interesting items - but it's those two sections that have kept me subscribing.
So I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that they're now on the chopping block. But here's the thing - the Sunday edition is about the only good thing the Globe still has going. It's still chock-full of lucrative circulars. It still runs real estate listings. If the Globe starts slashing Sunday content, are they going to kill their last egg-laying goose?
The Globe keeps getting
The Globe keeps getting worse every week. Now they want to give up 2 sections that make it unique?
These sections are pretty much the only reason I'm hanging onto a Sunday subscription. As mentioned upthread, the Somerville and Cambridge coverage is good in City Weekly, coverage not found to the same level in the regional section. Also there is frequent bicycling and transit coverage in the City Weekly section, again not found elsewhere in the paper.
Since they already took out their weekly TV magazine,
and decimated their City Weekly Section, it should come as no surprise if the Ideas Section, with the Op-Eds pages, are next on the chopping block.
I just dont get how removing
I just dont get how removing content helps?
The whole media dying thing is people moving online right? And doesnt removing the content from the paper mean it wont be online either?
And of course, people like Ron and myself will cancel because the stuff we like to read no longer exists.
What does the Miami Herald do right? Last time I was there, the paper cost 25/35 cents daily (higher for islands), was thicker than the globe and with better content.
el globo
J should be publisher. The Globe will not survive by self-surgery. Or is there a Pulitzer for best skeleton?
zzzzzzz
A self-dismembering paper
City Weekly and Ideas are two sections I most look forward to in the Sunday Globe.
I'm afraid to ask the Globe a play on the standard job interview question: Where do you see yourself in five years?
hear, hear
City Weekly is sometimes stuffed with fluff, and sometimes about New Hampshire. But I would cry at its funeral.
As for getting rid of Ideas: Jesus, that's a foul rumor. Dear Globe: It may not hurt when the nice doctor severs your prefrontal cortex with an ice pick, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
They are unworthy
I am still bummed that they dropped Adam's regular feature. That gave us stuff beyond UH and far more granular than the Metro or the rest of the weekly section.
This is the unprofitable cookie company, thinking if they only put in fewer chocolate chips and maybe oleo instead of butter, their profit margin will improve. It might, but they'll sell damned fewer cookies.
That would be the end for me...
I open the door, grab the Globe and begin culling it.
On the way in, I ditch sports and classified. I don't even look at those. They're recycled immediately every day.
And often the first section is useless, It takes 5 minutes. I've already covered that information on line. That section I pack into my husband's briefcase for him to read on the subway.
I've usually seen most Regional Metro covers online-- right here where UH and often with more information than the print Globe includes.
If they cut the City Weekly, I'll drop my subscription. I have a Kindle 2 on order and can get the Globe for less than $10 a month for my husband to read on the way to work. The difference in price will pay for the Kindle in one year and we can read a lot more than the Globe on it.
Now I have to figure out how to get newspaper for my pup's litter box.
Veronicaaaa!
nooooooooooooooooooo