In your springy Friday media column: a maybe-savior for the Boston Globe, traumatized journalists are everywhere, Newsweek bites HuffPo, and more!

The Boston Globe may have found its savior: the dude who owns the Boston Red Sox. John Henry says that if he buys the NYT Co's stake in the Red Sox, he might be willing to take the paper off their hands too. Which is actually not a bad deal at any price, since the paper is just leaking money out of every orifice! Do it, NYT Co: Just clear the fuck out of Boston, totally. That's never been a bad move.


Journalists get PTSD too, you'll be sad to hear.

Crazy news about newspapers, the roundup: The Daytona Beach News-Journal may go bankrupt. Rick fucking Santorum, gaybashing boy wonder, gets paid $1,750 per dumb column by the (bankrupt) Philly Inquirer. Media General's financial results were dismal. And newsroom employment at US newspapers fell more than 11% last year, to its lowest levels in three decades.


Time magazine did not defame former Indonesian president Suharto in 1999, you'll be happy to hear.

The big Newsweek relaunch is coming! Control yourself. "A prototype of the redesign that will be launched in early May is a cleaner take on the old, with more white space and bolder photographs. The launch will coincide with a relaunch of Newsweek.com that will replace wire copy with links to the best sources of online news, even if published by rivals." Everybody wanna be the HuffPo, but nobody wanna pay like the HuffPo. On general principle we must also say: "The Historical Jesus."