Could Boston become a one-newspaper town? Well, yes. Boston could even become a no-newspaper town at the rate newspaper closings are going (check out this CNN.com story). We all know by now that the Boston Globe‘s future is precarious. The union leaders have blown past their second deadline without coming to terms with the Boston Globe‘s owners — or, at least, the four unions haven’t all successfully met the terms dictated by The New York Times Co. for keeping the Globe in business.
Meanwhile, the Boston Herald has turned into a cross between a celebrity magazine and a sports magazine — and its editorial content, even in those areas, seem to be diminishing every day.