The New Yorker captures the feisty attitude against the Boston Globe from its tabloid rival:

“In an editorial [in the Globe], it opined that the citizens of Boston were fortunate to witness ‘this incomparable show in all its sprawling, controversial, and inspiring magnificence’—an assertion that made Ken Chandler, the top editor at the Herald, laugh.

“The Globe is a Times wannabe, but it can’t quite pull it off,” Chandler said last week, as he sat in his office. “We are just trying to extract some news from an event where there isn’t any. We knew that the Globe was going to give it a big [consult the Starr Report]. If I produced a newspaper as boring as the Globe, I’d kill myself.”