Friday, May 1, 2009

There Will Be a Boston Globe Tomorrow

The question is will I buy one? I don't always anymore.

Related: The Boston Globe Lives!

"Union seeks more talks on Globe; Accounting error complicates issue" by Keith O'Brien and Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | May 1, 2009

As of yesterday afternoon, the newspaper's New York-based parent company had not begun the process of formally closing the Globe.

The Times Co. had not filed such a notice as of yesterday, Messina said. And in a memo to staff, Globe publisher P. Steven Ainsley yesterday suggested that the dark clouds that have lingered at the paper for the last month will soon lift, and that the paper will "emerge from this difficult period in better shape than when we entered it."

What are you smoking in that newsroom?

Related: Boston Globe Executives Got Six-Figure Bonuses

Many Globe staffers and other observers simply don't see a scenario where the Times Co. would move today to announce the shut down of the Globe....

--more--"