Sad to say (and see), the Boston Globe has become a wire-service publication wrapped in local content.
Exhibit A:
Tuesday’s edition, which featured the usual front-page Globe Staff content (in this case, five pieces):
But from there, readers get 15 pages of wire-service reports: Ten pieces and eight briefs from the Associated Press, five pieces from the Washington Post, and one from the New York Times (Globe to Mother Ship: Drop Dead!)
No question, every newspaper is filled with filler when holiday sale ads expand the newshole.
But the Globe used to feature daily news from a lively foreign bureau and daily coverage from an aggressive D.C. desk.
No more.
Page One is Globe content, as are the editorial and op-ed pages.
Everything in between is rented space.
Very sad.
Campaign Outsider 
First time I’ve seen a cover of the Boston Globe in years.
Hate to say it, for many of the reasons you state, John, I don’t miss it one bit.
… Let me revise that. The weather almanac and the comics, maybe.
That’s almost as sad as the state of the Globe, Mudge.
Why? I can read the AP feeds just about anywhere. And the Globe website is not the best for good local news.
My local rag? Same thing.
Not sad at all. There is an extremely broad range of news and position offerings on the internet that I read regularly. Certainly a lot more than the narrow-focused, news reprinter dead-tree papers have become.
(I also didn’t like to have to walk 500′ down the driveway because the delivery people couldn’t understand what “on the porch” meant. But that’s just me and arthritis.)
Don’t be mad – but does having Globe-generated content in the Globe really matter? This, to me, reads like an adaptation of delivery technologies to better suit the evolving nature of the news medium. Obviously having some diversity in opinion/content is important, but that still exists, just in a different place. I think you’re too quick to equate the downfall of the delivery technology with the downfall of the medium.
Also, it’s kind of weird they’re doing a story on airport security on the front page of the Globe. I went through Logan yesterday, saw absolutely no sign of the body scanners, and received no offers for a pat down. Why are the media conspiring to put this non-issue on the agenda?
#1: I’d never be mad at you, Liz.
#2: I’m not mourning an information delivery system, but a once-proud news organization comprising journalists who cared about the overall product their paper created every day.
#3: See here for assurance that you aren’t the only one who thinks the TSA rumpus is Totally Strumpeted Assessment.