It is usually about this time that I am wrapping up a couple hours of work and heading out for my cup of coffee and morning paper. Not today. How can I do that sitting her typing to you? I may be going out for coffee later; however, I will not be purchasing a Boston Globe today, tomorrow, or the next day.
See: Saying Goodbye to the Boston Globe
In fact, let me tell you a little story about a guy I knew:
The guy I'm talking about used to look forward to getting his morning papers. He used to purchase the New York Times and Boston Globe every day and meticulously outlined the stories he would cover, marking them with red and blue ink. While understanding the biases of the MSM, he still believed they did report events as they happened. There was no reason to doubt the truth of America's newspapers. Yes, there may have been some mistakes and omissions, but for the most part they did a decent job.
(For more on his journey see A Lifetime of Lies Since 9/11)
After about a year of increasingly poor MSM coverage and exposure to the blogs, his commentaries became more and more strident. He couldn't believe the scale of lies he was seeing, not just on Iraq and 9/11, but on every single issue (the weather fer cryin' out loud). Such behavior led him to stop purchasing the New York Times. That was part of his New Year's resolution for 2008 and it stuck. The strange part is that he found himself visiting the New York Times website less and less.
He kept purchasing a Boston Globe in the belief that it added a certain perspective and kitsch to his blog, an on-the-ground report on the MSM from his home base; however, their agenda-pushing propaganda -- oddly(?), the New York Times owns the Boston Globe -- just got worse and worse and worse and continues to this day. I guess that's why newspapers are failing: when they can't even please their most faithful purchasers, what hope do they have? They shouldn't tell all those lies.
Anyhow, he decided to scrap purchases of the Boston Globe as his New Years' resolution for 2009. Unfortunately, that resolution did not stick. I think you know who I'm talking about, readers.
And three weeks later, here we are.
Update:
Well, I made it. Didn't even stop at the news rack and didn't bother looking at the Boston Globe. The problem now is the fact that when I do not purchase a paper, I am much less likely to go there and read their stories. If I'm going to be on computer, I would rather read other blogs than spend time at the Boston Globe's website. Bad enough to see 99% garbage laid out in front of me in print from. Even harder to read on computer.
Goodbye, Globe!
