Posted on 08/09/2013 9:08:10 AM PDT by marktwain
Newspapers are a tough business to be in. But life is tougher when you’re stupid, as one of John Wayne’s characters famously said, and certainly some of the layoffs that befell the employees of the Gannett newspaper chain this week are that kind of tougher.
The chain is institutionally anti-gun, and its editorial employees have been hostile to legal gun owners on a visceral level. Some properties particularly stand out, like the Lower Hudson News, famous for “outing” the gun owners in its publication area, and for then hunkering down behind armed guards and demanding the arrest of plebes who — gasp! — criticized the wannabe post-American newspaper.
Over two dozen of the workers at LoHud and other Westchester County Gannett properties (which work from a single office) got axed this week. They get no severance, although some (union members, we think) get, briefly, a differential pay between their old salaries and unemployment insurance. To our delight, the nasty editor Caryn McBride is reported to be among the trash taken out at the News. We wrote way back in January:
Revenge tastes bitter, but victory is a kind of revenge that tastes sweet indeed, and the Rockland County Times [a LoHud competitor - Eds.] is headed towards victory.
Indeed, the Rockland County paper reported on the layoffs across town with ill-concealed glee here, and confirmed that McBride, the woman who called the cops demanding her critics be arrested, was one of the 17 reporters and editors and 9 other staffers sacked. Best line from the Rockland County Times: “They don’t fire guns, they fire people.”
(Excerpt) Read more at weaponsman.com ...
Nothing like rewarding failure!
How does 17+9 = “hundreds”?
There is a link in the actual article explaining this.
“Gannet has lost 73% of its value over the last decade”
They deserve it. They took over the Indianapolis Star, which I subscribed to for years and tunred it into a leftist rag.
The shareholders should take the Gannett executive team to court from the sounds of it.
In full seriousness: hating your customers is a highly effective way to turn them into your competition's customers.
This article is just crowing about the chickens that came home to roost in their particular Gannett service area.
As in: Some properties particularly stand out,...
Do you recall the old Klingon proverb which teaches us that "revenge is a dish that is best served coooooold"?
Hugo Chavez clone
New math.
Fries with that?
Fred Reed touched on the general subject nicely a couple weeks ago. Scroll past the shameless marketing of his daughter (though she’s good):
http://fredoneverything.net/Microjourno.shtml
A snip:
“And so the bright drift to the web, leaving newspapers to clippers of grocery coupons and television to the semiliterate and below. It isn´t universal, but it is the trend line. The majors have a product with all the flavor of wallpaper paste and, now, a busted monopoly. Any mutt in Mexico with a computer and time on his hands can play Clark Kent, and it really is the Daily Planet since that´s where people can read his outflow. My oh my.”
As Bawney Fwank would say...
Awwwww --- That's just tewwible!
Scadenfreude is deserved bad things happening to bad people...
Whether it's deliberate, or just "meant well," the destructive results are the same.
Quite often, Ignorant=clueless=bad.
Ah, but I’ll take deserved justice, in whatever form, and whatever delayed time.
And I’ll dance on graves when needed.
Interesting though it may be, that article sucks.
Am I the only one who knows that displaying a chart without a vertical scale is meaningless?
Truthfully, a lot of the decline of newspapers can be laid at the feet of university journalism schools, who instead of teaching objective reporting, competence in the field they are reporting in, editing, and expertise in at least one foreign language; instead train biased and prejudiced incompetence, almost priestly dogmatism, an utter rejection of even the possibility of ethics, and a deep contempt of intellectualism.
The only way out of this mess would be to create a new school of reporting and editing. It would offer three degrees, from lowest to highest: objective reporting, objective journalism, and editing. Just to get in, a student would have to have a Bachelor’s degree in a different field, which would be their reporting specialty.
An objective journalist would have to footnote justifications for his opinions from legitimate source material.
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