Blame Game at New York Times?

News came today that Richard Gilman will be replaced as publisher of the Boston Globe basically effective immediately (his replacement Steven Ainsley will start Septemeber 12th).

It has to be said that the Boston Globe is a shadow of its former self and I'm sure that Richard Gilman is not blameless for that decline. It also has to be said though that the general decline of the Boston Globe started in 1994 when the paper was acquired by the New York Times Company. The blame for the decline in circulation and quality was today fixed on Richard Gilman but the underlying problems really to blame were left unaddressed.

The Boston Globe of my youth was a paper with the best sports section in the country and a reputation for reporting news that was unmatched and well deserved. Under the management of the New York Time the sports section has been gutted while the paper itself has become a shill rag for liberal causes.

The daily circulation of the Boston Globe is roughly 413,000. That means that nationaly the Boston Globe is seen by less than half the people who would watch a re-run of Family Guy on the Cartoon Netwok. Think about that for a minute.