> ...the fact that the Globe seems to be backing
> away from two subjects of particular interest
> to Bostonians is telling.... coverage the
> paper clearly ought to be providing.
The Globe prints a very lengthy "Astrology Forecast" seven days a week. It measures 11 by 3.5 inches. Each week, that's 262 square inches, or 1.2 full-size pages in the main newspaper.
With ads, that would make a weekly 2-page spread for a Health/Science section right there.
Yes, the astrology column is with the comics. But with all the swapping between the main paper and the g section these days, all editorial space is fungible.
Cutting pseudoscience to keep science? Have they even though of this? A generation ago, the conventional newspaper wisdom was you can't cut the astrology column. But is that still true? Or, couldn't they at least run an astrology column that's 1/3 that size, like other papers do?