Friday, March 22, 2013

What Was and What Will Never Be (Again)



How the Boston Phoenix Kept Its Readers But Lost Its Advertisers. (MediaShift, 3/19/2013)

Excerpt: But beyond those factors, the community that sustained the Phoenix has passed from the scene. At one time the Boston area was awash in 
  • concert venues
  • record stores
  • guitar emporiums
  • independent book stores
  • head shops 
-- the kinds of businesses that reached their customers by advertising in alternative weeklies. Now they are almost entirely gone.

In the heyday.

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