Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, Boston has eleven suburban dailies with a combined circulation of 193,000, and the Christian Science Monitor (circ. 162,000), primarily a national newspaper of comment and review...
...turn of the century, eight dailies were crammed together on the narrow, twisting section of Washington Street in downtown Boston called "Newspaper Row." Eight was too many. There, elbowing each other for space and circulation, the Boston papers developed their traditional pattern of frantic promotions, flashy makeup and lackadaisical reporting...
...Bugaboo. Among Boston newsmen, the passing of an era was little mourned. The warrens on Washington Street-cluttered city rooms, wire-cage elevators, battered rolltop desks-symbolized the musty editorial policies of the papers. "We've tried everything else," said one Globeman. "Maybe a change of scenery will get us-and the rest of the papers -up off our duffs...
...Boston editors are quick to admit their faults, but they put the blame on the old bugaboo of competition. With a population of more than 2,300,000, metropolitan Boston has six dailies: the staunchly Republican morning Herald (circ. 204,395) and evening Traveler (circ. 186,306) of bustling, bumptious Publisher Robert Choate; the morning Record (circ. 411,971) and evening American (circ. 176,318), both Hearst tabloids; the fusty, fence-straddling morning (circ. 225,162) and evening (149,070) Globes...
Wooing the Advertiser. This look-and-leap makeup has one virtue, at least to business-office eyes. "It makes the reader go through the entire paper," argues one official. "We can tell an advertiser that every one of our pages is well read." Wooing the advertiser further, Boston papers zealously cover every ribbon-cutting ceremony in the city. But no real attempt is made to cover the city's constant flow of major educational, scientific and medical stories. Deskmen often fumble major stories; e.g., one paper ran Russia's first A-bomb explosion below the fold...