Opinion: Boston Herald Needs to Be Less Divisive - a letter from Joe Viglione

 

Boston Herald and Herald Media. 

301 Littleton Road

P. O. Box 4004 

Westford, MA 01886

 

Dear Boston Herald: 

Having gone to school with the chairman of the

Massachusetts Republican Party, James J. Lyons, Jr., I recall

how popular Jimmy was a half a century ago in Arlington and how out-of-touch

his Trump doctrine is today, especially with Massachusetts voters.

The question now is, why is the Boston Herald behaving in

the unpopular manner Lyons has chosen?

With your competition charging an absurd $3.00 per daily

issue one would think the Herald would follow the Boston

Phoenix model of free print editions (and wasn't the Phoenix

the last of the weekly papers in the country to do that?)

Then I Google the Herald and see you charge $3.50

per daily.   Yer kidding, right?

But what infuriated me is the 12.00 you swiped out of my

bank account this week with no alert, AND NO ABILITY FOR

ME TO OPT OUT ONLINE!

Pursuant to Maura Healey's MGL 93a Deceptive Business

Practices, I should sue your paper for $12.00, triple damages

and court costs!  Seriously.   An estimated 60 bucks!  Every

digital subscriber getting blindsided should do the same...

ten thousand subscribers times sixty bucks might give 

your subscription department a clue.

Take the hint!

But back to Jimmy Lyons' missteps.  The Biden Bashing

by the Herald is a real turnoff.  Even Karl W. Smith's

opinion piece today on Mitt Romney.....please!  

How about Smith's July 22 article "Smith: Biden should ask Trump’s help for boosting vaccinations."

That's like asking Kim Jong-un to run the Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA)

Red meat for the MAGA nuts!

Attempting to advise Joe Biden while slapping his administration 

won't get anyone's attention except for the Herald's base of loony Trump followers.

And they are in the minority.  So pin your hopes on the Trump

base and end up like Trump, licking his wounds and facing

criminal indictment.  

  

That kind of nonsense is fine if you are exposing Medford or Quincy 

or Westford local politics, but highly illogical to go after a president

very, very popular in an ultra blue state.

Found on the web:

The Herald was named one of the "10 Newspapers That 'Do It Right'" in 2012 by Editor & Publisher. 

In December 2017, the Herald filed for bankruptcy."

Why are we not surprised?

Joe Viglione