Boston Still a Two-Newspaper Town

Sadly, just a day after Denver became a one-newspaper city, we learn another 20 buyouts are needed to take a buyout at the Boston Herald, which Publisher Pat Purcell said will still be in the black for 2009, but needs the cuts anyway.

“We’ve probably been ahead of most other newspaper companies,” said Purcell, when asked about financial trouble facing papers in San Francisco, Seattle, Denver and elsewhere. “We have defied the odds for a long time. We continue to defy the odds. We expect to be around for a long time.”

This city needs The Herald, founded in 1846 and if nothing else, a survivor of  Boston newspaper wars over the past century. Exhibit A: In the 1970s, the official name of the paper was the Boston Herald-Traveler and Record American in the morning and Record-American and Boston Herald Traveler  in the afternoon, showing the three other papers that had been absorbed over the years by the Herald.

Unfortunately, I need one of the old  Atex systems’  ”Save-Get” Keys for these newspaper layoff notes.