Bostonist: IFC Media Project Town Hall, Bostonist Readers Speak Out!

Rick Sawyer

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:25:25 -0500

In the Globe's defense (I'm rarely in a position to say that), the story in Scituate was about a house blowing up and the Barnstable story was about a dude who found a dead body on fire, neither of which you should expect the Globe to ignore. But your point is sound. It's not rare to see stories of suburban ennui pushing murders in the city off the front page.

16WadeSt

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:54:35 -0500

Maybe if the Boston Globe covered news in Boston, it wouldn't fall quite so hard. Look at the datelines on B1 of today's paper -- the news articles are out of Scituate and Barnstable, the column is out of Weston, and one-half of the two local stories is on city pools closing ... in the middle of December.

Kerry Skemp

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:31:23 -0500

CJR has a cool database of who owns what: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php and i'm sorry i missed this, it looked awesome.