Forget about the Globe versus GateHouse. Now Boston.com sports reporter Chad Finn wants to tussle with sports radio heavyweight WEEI-AM:

We don't change the station, and so the station sees no need to change. Ratings are huge, possibly even as huge as the station claims. Its primary demographic has tremendous appeal to advertisers.

A tipster tells DQM that the Globe has formed a "New Revenue Team"--aimed, as the name suggests--at finding new ways for the paper to make money.

The NRT has 13 members, including managing editor Caleb Solomon and Boston.com bigwig Bob Kempf. Apparently, though, publisher Steve Ainsley wants as many people as possible involved in the new-revenue push: his memo speaks of an "incentive plan that pays out an increasing amount as an idea moves through the successive phases of development."

In my recent piece on looming cutbacks at the Globe, I noted that the paper's "Ideas" section was reportedly set for elimination. But a Globe staffer informs me that, since I did my reporting, management has decided *not* to kill "Ideas" after all.

To my mind, the death of "Ideas" wouldn't have been a loss if (as I proposed a few weeks back) the paper made intellectual affairs a staple elsewhere in the paper.

Today's Herald cover story focuses on three specific examples of local politicians "feeling the heat on the street from taxpayers and public sector workers fuming over impending layoffs and service cuts": someone shooting at the Lawrence city planner's office; Gloucester mayor Carolyn Kirk finding a pile of dead fish on her front porch; and Brian Wallace "getting an earful" about the proposed state gas tax during a fill-up.

I was born in 1972, so I'm smack dab in the middle of the demographic that guest columnist David Scharfenberg is discussing in today's Globe. But I'm having a hard time understanding what Scharfenberg is trying to say. Near as I can tell, he makes the following points:

--Gen X guys are confused about what it means to be to be men

Interesting change over at Horticultural Hall: Boston editor James Burnett will now report to Larry Platt, the editor of Philadelphia, who's just been promoted to editorial director of Metro Corp., parent company of both magazines. Platt's mission, according to a memo from Metro Cop. chairman Herb Lipson, is to "ensure that all titles owned by the company fulfill the editorial mission at a high level."

A new Poynter Institute piece on NY Post cartoonist Sean Delonas's February 18 offering--which may or may not have depicted Barack Obama as a dead chimp--includes a semi-exoneration from the excellent cartoonist Ted Rall:

Rall, who is familiar with Delonas' work, said he doesn't believe the cartoonist was saying anything about Obama.

Because that's the value of Boston's paper of record, according to the Boston Business Journal, which cites Barclays Capital analyst Craig Huber. (I'm rounding up just a skosh here.

All the more reason to think that $20 million figure the WSJ cited last December is worthless. But hold the Champagne, since the Globe originally sold for roughly six times its current worth (assuming Huber's right, obviously).

Truth is no defense against a charge of libel. Or at least, not much of one.

That, Dan Kennedy suggests, is the implication of this decision, issued last week by the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals. And Dan isn't the only one making the argument: here, for example, is Mass. Newspaper Publishers Association executive director Robert Ambrogi making a similar point.

A confession: I didn't know Colonel Tribune existed until Romenesko pointed me to this Mark Potts blog post.

Now, though, I'm weirdly fascinated by this quasi-historical, absurdist personification of the Chicago Tribune. And I'm wondering: if the Globe and Herald decided to follow suit, what characters would work best?

Suggest away.

The main point of Michael Kinsley's anti-micropayments Times op-ed--"Two bucks per reader per month is not going to save newspapers"--is well taken, and worth considering if, like me, you've previously been intrigued by the pro-micropayments argument. (Ditto for the anti-micropayments case made by Gabriel Sherman today on Slate.