Word: mindich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phoenix, founded in 1969, was bought in 1972 by publisher Stephen M. Mindich, who merged it with the less politically-oriented Boston After Dark...
...picket line together--at the old Phoenix, where they once went on strike against publisher Richard Missner. Missner and the strikers settled after the paper was shut down for a week, but a couple of months later, in July 1972, Missner sold the Phoenix to rival publisher Stephen Mindich of Boston After Dark. Mindich wanted only the Phoenix name and a staff member of two; he bought the paper merely to squeeze out his competition. The abandoned Phoenix staff, consumed by equal measures of pique and principle, decided to start their own paper, the Real paper. The first issue appeared...
...there may, indeed, be a difference. Mindich claims that despite The Real Paper's early edge, The Boston Phoenix is now outstripping The Real Paper early edge. The Boston Phoenix is now outstripping. The Real Paper four to one is hawker sales; in the Square any they're running about even. Rotner attribution the slow pickup of Real Paper sales to an identity problem, which he plass to counter with an extensive promotional campalgs...
...whole, Mindich said, the acquisition of The Phoenix has been "about 99 per cent positive in every way." His paid circulation is now ranging between 55,000 and 60,000 as compared to 30,000 before this summer, and his press...
...Mindich said that he feels them is not a market for two weekly newspapers of the same exact type" in the Boston area. But he doesn't consider The Real Paper of the same calibre as The Boston Phoenix, and therefore no longer considers it significants competition. "I just don't think they have it together," he said. "Quite frankly, it's not as good a newspaper. The Real Paper is not the old Phoenix--I don't care how you compare...