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Much of mike were was involved with the boston globe for 11 years. Editor for the miami herald and work of the l. A. Times. Feel very strongly and strongly committed to the success of those institutions. They do face enormous pressures. Ill own up to the fact i eliminated the foreign coverage of the boston globe and i guess 2007 or so we were going through the recession. We were expressing 30 decline in revenues and does anybody any management role has to do, you have to make some very tough decisions. The question was are we going to maintain our foreign staff, five or six people, or cover our local region . The answer for institutions like the boston globe, we will cover our local region. There are other places that can cover the world. Nobody was happy with it. I wasnt happy with it. I were sharply criticized youre pretty much all of the people overseas at the moment left the boston globe to do other things, but i think that those institutions, they are still major newspapers. The b ....