As the hardreading staffed has extensively noted, the PR battle over the demolition of the Prouty Garden at Children’s Hospital has been waged on multiple fronts in the news media, both paid and unpaid.
Representative samples of paid media in the form of full-page ads in the Boston dailies:
Representative sample of unpaid media – compliments of Children’s CEO Sandra Fenwick – on last Thursday’s Boston Globe’s op-ed page:
Beyond that, yesterday’s Globe featured this full-page ad for at least the second time:
So here’s our question, again:
Will the Globe give equal op-time to the Save the Prouty Garden folks?
Or does just money talk at the $tately local broadsheet?
Well . . .
Today’s Globe provides the answer in the form of yet another costly full-page ad from the pro-Prouty forces.
Nuts ‘n’ bolts graf:
That’s all well and good, but once again, Globeniks: When does the Prouty gets its freebie?
It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town 
The Globe published a strongly-worded pro-Garden op-ed from one of their own employees one month ago:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/01/22/the-memories-preserved-prouty-garden/GGcSLqUK1idIeS0X4fedKJ/story.html
Fair enough, Mark. I just like to see them a little closer together.
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