As reported in the NY Times on Monday, Boston is dealing with the threatened loss of the Globe by searching its collective soul and wondering what the closure would say about its city. “Boston’s not a podunk town,” the article quoted one resident saying. “It’s got to have a good paper.”

Quietly, while many in the news media where mourning the Rocky and speculating about which paper would be next, Hearst's newspaper division has been making some of its own news. First was their threat to close the San Francisco Chronicle, which has been disastrously losing money at least since Hearst paid some $50 million to "sell" their flagship, the Examiner.