To the Editor: In ''Newspaper Barons Resurface'' (Media Equation column, April 9), David Carr equates newspapers with a used Humvee, ''a hulking beast that has lost relevance in a changed landscape.'' Clever, but let's take a look. Last year, The Patriot-News in Pennsylvania exposed the child sex abuse scandal involving the Penn State coach Jerry...
One letter, signed Tinsel Teeth, asked, ''How can a boy kiss a girl who wears braces?'' Another, signed Dumbo, said: ''I have enormous ears. Kids say I look like a car with both doors left open. Is there an operation to whittle them down to size?'' And over the years there were too many like the one that said: ''I am in terrible trouble and I don't...
BOSTON -- The former manager, Terry Francona, has gone, his future unknown. The former general manager, Theo Epstein, has gone as well, but with a destination (Chicago) and a mission (to win a title for the Cubs.) The two men are, presumably, the lucky ones, if only because they no longer are around to face the accumulating wrath of Red Sox Nation,...
The Boston Globe er en amerikansk avis, der udgives i Boston, Massachusetts og resten af New England. Oplaget var i 2008 350.605 mandag-lørdag, mens søndagsudgaven Boston Sunday Globe udkom i 525.959 eksemplarer. Avisen er områdets største, men får konkurrence fra Boston Herald.
Avisen blev grundlagt i 1872 af seks lokale forretningsmænd. Siden 1993 har avisen været ejet af The New York Times Company.
Martin Baron har været dens chefredaktør siden 2001.