Boston Globe Changes Copyright Notices as Its Multinational Owner, "The New York Times Company," Bobs and Weaves  Its Way Across the State
Doesn't Want Residents to Understand We Are Just Another Subsidiary of the Times
            The copyright notices on the Boston Globe website are now either "copyright The New York Times Company" or "copyright Globe Newspaper Company."
            This subject became very important in 2003 when the Globe was sued by Attorney J. Edward Pawlick for libeling his wife, Sally Pawlick, 16 times in 2002. As proof at that trial that the Globe is not independent of its owner, The New York Times Company, Pawlick pointed repeatedly to the fact that every story on Boston.com was copyrighted by the Times, not by the Globe.
            That's why Pawlick was startled a couple of weeks ago on Jan. 24 to see that the Globe had quietly changed its copyright notices from The Times to the Globe. The change was understandable because the owners of the Globe do not want Massachusetts residents to clearly understand that they are merely another outpost of The New York Times Company, which is taking a beating everywhere since Pawlick took his true experience to the attention of the public across the entire country with his book, "Libel by New York Times."
            Pawlick, who founded MassNews, tells us that he does not have the time to probe this new chicanery on the part of the lawyers he battled in his libel suit, but it is interesting to see the machinations of this multinational corporation as it bobs and weaves its way across the landscape of Massachusetts.