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...Boston tabloid. Everyone who picked it up had the same reaction: they saw the lipstick-red banner head at the top, they read the teasers running down the left-hand column ("Toilet paper beauty linked to Teddy's past? page 3"), and they said this is it--the Boston Herald-American has sunk to an all-time...
...many, it came as a surprise to discover that this particular issue was actually an MIT parody called the "Boston Reamer-American." Even tales of kitchen infanticide did not seem too far-fetched for the Herald's salacious front page...
...Herald has become one of the nation's easiest newspapers to rag on. A year ago, it switched to tabloid format, and it has now resolutely plunked down all its chips on violent crimes and eye-catching scandal. Today, Boston residents who want their news served up with an eye to long-term significance, not short-term sensation, know they are down to one choice And for them, the morning newsstand routine of reaching for the Globe now also includes time out to cluck at the Herald...
...Moonies have made the newspaper business in Washington immeasurably healthier than it is today in Philadelphia and would be in Boston if the Herald shut down. The loss a city suffers when it becomes a one-newspaper town cannot be expressed too often. Nothing improves an editor's diligence and a reporter's aggressiveness more than the eternal dread of being scooped. That fear abates, to be sure, when the competition is a scandal-monger or a cult mouthpiece. But if competition vanishes altogether, the surviving newspaper is left with all the incentive to excel of a student...
DIED. Walter Terry, 69, author, lecturer and critic, first with the Boston Herald and later with the New York Herald Tribune and Saturday Review, who championed ballet and modern dance for almost half a century; of a heart attack; in New York City...