Farewell Dear Newspapers

O, how I did enjoy you! What a delight you always were. And now, dear friends, it's time to bid you a found farewell.

When I was a teen and attending Boston College High School ( while commuting by train from Lowell), the city had about 5 or 6 dailies.

They were all great papers. We had such giants as the Post, Herald, Traveler, Globe, Christian Science Monitor and others I can't now recall.

Over the decades one by one they fell and went out of business. Television was the first killer wave of the newspapers and the Internet was the final, fatal blow.

Now the largest city in New England has only two very sick and ailing papers.

The recent news about the Boston Globe, wasn't really news, as it was coming for a long longtime.

Newspapers are out in this age of modern instant electronic communications.

The Boston Globe was king-of-the-roost for a long time. They had a powerful sway on politics in the city and in the state. In many ways they may have had to much political power.

Unlike other daily newspapers in the Commonwealth the Globe was always honest and always intelligent. They had a cadre of highly gifted intelligent writers.

I don't think the Boston Globe will entire cease to exist but I do believe it will be substantially downsized to a fraction of what it once was. I think in time it will be sold by the NY Times and it will hang on and linger for a while longer.

Times change and we must change with them!

And the good news is that we are as this memo is via the wonderful Internet. Welcome to the future.

Bill McInerney

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