From our Local Dailies DisADvantage desk
As the hardreading staff has noted numerous times, the Boston Herald has long been the wallflower at the local advertising dance.
And so it remains in the time of coronavirus.
To be sure, Kappy’s Fine Wine & Spirits has been a loyal customer lately with full-page ads like this one.
And Stop & Shop ran this thank you ad today.
But that’s pretty much it for the thirsty local tabloid.
Crosstown at the Boston Globe, though (wait – that doesn’t work any more since the Globe moved to State Street and the Herald moved to Braintree and anyway everyone’s working remotely so the hell with it) – the full-page ads are coming fast and furious.
Yesterday there was this ad from the Veterans Cannabis Project urging Gov. Charlie Baker (R-Bogart) to designate all adult-use Massachusetts cannabis dispensaries as essential services.
Auto magnate Herb Chambers also went full-page yesterday.
Today is even better for the stately local broadsheet. It got the Chambers ad again and the Stop & Shop thank you ad. But today’s edition also features this Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts ad.
Body copy:
And this Uber ad.
Body copy:
Memo to Blue Cross and Uber: Maybe next time send some of that love to the Herald as well.
It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town 
Maybe it’s the lack of ads, but did you notice that the newsstand price of The Herald went up to $3.50 last week? $3.50! More than The NY Times, the Globe, and almost as much as the New York Daily News and the New York Post together! Who is going to be so devoted to Howie Carr, yet so undevoted to home delivery or ipad reading, as to pay that much every morning?
(For the single copy price of 3 months of Heralds, you can get home delivery for a year. For less than 3 weeks of single copy Heralds, you can read the e-edition for a year.)
Thanks, Mark – you made today’s post.
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