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New York Times Co. Doesn't 'Need' to Sell Boston Globe. But Will Anyhow.
No Economic Downturn Can Stop Vanity Fair (Except the One That Did)

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Unsolicited Advice
09/10/09

In reply to New York Times Co. Doesn't 'Need' to Sell Boston Globe. But Will Anyhow.
Watching the New York Times wax coquettish on their worse-than-worthless non-core assets is like watching Courtney Love trying to sleaze her way into some free heroin. The Globe has an impossible labor situation and no future. Only an oligarch would even be remotely interested, and even then it would be a rather expensive, second-rate vanity to maintain.
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
09/10/09

@Unsolicited Advice: You really think the Globe has no future? I mean, I know people here don't like newspapers, but that seems a bit extreme.
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friendslikeJimRome
09/10/09

@Grim Reaper of the Forest: I know for a fact that the Cushing Academy library just dropped their subscription to the Globe.
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
09/10/09

@friendslikeJimRome: You mean the Cushing Academy library that just gave away its entire collection of books?
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averyreade
12/05/08

In reply to No Economic Downturn Can Stop Vanity Fair (Except the One That Did)
Before, during, and after the last "Great Depression," the United States actually made things. Things that people wanted to buy.

Now it's an empty shell, folks. We managed to tread water for a while throwing up luxury condos and concocting bizarre investment schemes, but that could only last for so long...

Vanity Fair will likely return, yes.

In Dubai.

The U.S. is getting banged hard and left for dead, folks. If you haven't realized it yet, you will.

Sadly, the dim, mesmerized masses all but asked for it. (And I include myself in that category--spent more years gullible and naive than otherwise. There are very few who haven't, God bless 'em.)
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raincoaster
12/04/08

In reply to No Economic Downturn Can Stop Vanity Fair (Except the One That Did)
The oldest continuously published magazine in the English language is, I believe the Tatler, which was last interesting in the Eighties and before that not since about 1825. So that's not necessarily a good thing.
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SW-2
12/04/08

@raincoaster: I think it's actually the Farmers' Almanac, but I don't think that undermines your point.
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raincoaster
12/06/08

@SW-2: Nope, Tatler has it beat by a few decades.
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HiredGoons
12/04/08

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So it was a recession that killed the dinosaurs?
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tunamelt
12/04/08

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You and your facts.
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