That didn't last long: Globe CEO quits, effective right this second; Henrys to roll up their sleeves more

Thanks for the laugh Dave! Indeed, O-FISH-L will take the bait on any Globe demise story. It's sad because I have many friends who were drivers, mailers, pressmen on Morrissey Boulevard, now long gone. In the old days the dark green Globe truck would pull up to the police cruiser at 4 am and give a bunch of papers for the station or barracks. Now there are very few Globe trucks left. Keep blaming the internet and not their far-left politics. After all, Trump only got 1,083,069 votes in MA. Write them off.

I only repeat my customer service experience while canceling the Globe because of the hypocrisy of calling a Dorchester number and reaching Manila, Philippines. After the 2016 fake Trump front page, the lovely woman in Manila told me that the reason for an hour-long hold was because "many, many" had canceled that day. Layoffs soon followed. Not one member of the Boston media has followed up about the impact of the fake front page but the turmoil at the Globe seems to continue.

As a canceled subscriber, I can only see the Globe's home page, nothing further. It was interesting on Sunday to see only one negative Trump story rather than the usual ten. Some "columnist" named Cohen, obsessed with Trump and for far too long given great exposure, seems to have been taken off page 1. Meanwhile Kevin Cullen was seen on Boston TV trying to duck out of the picture, interviewing an illegal alien hispanic who had finally been brought to justice. The sob story column followed. This only weeks after the unlicensed Irish "electrician" here illegally for two decades and wanted on an arrest warrant, was deported with great sympathy from the Globe.

If Henry and his child-bride have any fiduciary responsibility to the Globe, its employees and readers, they will continue changing staff and hire people able to play the news down the middle. That would be a breath of fresh-air after such a long decline. Perhaps Henry's other great investment, Pablo Sandoval can pick up a few subscriptions.

If Henry was truly concerned only with profits, he would never have gotten into the newspaper business. The Globe was in a tailspin before he bought it, and it has continued.

Let's start with the newspaper side. He inherited a newspaper hemorrhaging money because of the internet. The staff was shrinking for years before the purchase because of loss of revenue. Your griping about the paywall? No, you're griping about having to pay the salaries of the people whose stories you want to read. Sorry people, but newspapers are not run on rainbows and good feelings. The staff has to pay rent and read, so accept the paywall.

But let's look at John Henry's other local interest. You know, the base ball club whose ticket prices were amongst the highest back in the 1990s when the nonprofit Yawkey Trust ran it. Do you know why first the Yawkey Trust then the Fenway Sports Group charged the highest (on average) for tickets. Because they could. If they didn't, the tickets would all be bought by resellers who would make a killing in the secondary market. Sure, when they bought the team, FSG could have decided to set ticket prices on the levels that the Montreal Expos set their prices, then we could watch all the good players leave because there would be no money to pay them. That's the free market, my friend.

Do I like the direction the Globe has gone? As a print subscriber, I do feel unloved, but I know that Boston is doing better than other cities. Do I like the business plans of FSG? As a Liverpool fan, I think they could do better.