The Boston Globe (and
Boston Sunday Globe) is an
American daily
newspaper based in
Boston, Massachusetts. The
Globe has been owned by
The New York Times Company since 1993. Its chief print rival is the
Boston Herald.
[2] In 2008 the
Globe's average weekday circulation fell to 350,605, down from 382,503, or 8.3%. Sunday circulation fell 6.5% to 525,959.
[3]In 1993, The New York Times Company purchased Affiliated Publications for US$1.1 billion, making The Globe a wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times' parent.[4] The Jordan and Taylor families received substantial Times Company stock, but the last Taylor family members left management in 2000-2001.
In 1998, columnist Patricia Smith was forced to resign after it was discovered that she had fabricated people and quotations in several of her columns.[7] This raised questions of a double standard at the Globe, as Mike Barnicle, who is European-American (Smith is African-American), had been accused of the same offense without being punished. In August of that year, Barnicle was discovered to have copied material for a column from a George Carlin book, Brain Droppings. He was suspended for this offense, and his past columns were reviewed. In their review, the Globe editors found that Barnicle had fabricated a story about two cancer patients, and Barnicle was forced to resign.[8]
In 2004, the Globe apologized for printing graphic photographs that purportedly showed U.S. soldiers raping Iraqi women during the Iraq war. A week earlier the pictures had been shown by World Net Daily to be fantasies from an internet pornography site.[9][10][11]
