The Boston Herald, exposed the "fact" that the Boston Metro is fact financially linked to a Scandanavian conglomerate that peddles pornographic tv shows. Herald Publisher Pat Purcell is hell bent on preventing the New York Times Corp from acquiring a forty nine percent interest in the free daily. Thus Pat has entered the usual "scorched earth ends-justify-the-means phase of the crisis...we see this all the time here in Boston.
The Herald is a bitterly conservative publication with an op-ed page crammed with the usual Watch and Ward Society type puritans. So a bleak hatred of smut and its allegedly debased influence is to be expected, and if the Herald can get the boot on the Globe at the same time, so much the better. However, all this high mindedness however doesn't prevent the Herald's sales department from taking in adverts from pornographic bookstores, Providence Rhode Island strip joints, and Bachelorette sex toy parties. All of which can be found tucked away neatly in the Herald's voluminous and otherwise eminently readable sports pages.
Its petty seamy stuff...but it does underscore the Herald's hypocritical stance when it comes to public morals versus the bottom line. Moreover, you just know that given the Herald's perpetually thin profit margins that this kind of advertising can't be dispensed with. Alas this is the Herald we are taling about, like the Globe it has its own unique pathologies that it loves to share with us all.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
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