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Mercury News plans to shrink newsroom by 52 jobs
Grade the News ^ | 9/24/05 | Michael Stoll

Posted on 09/26/2005 7:32:18 AM PDT by LdSentinal

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1 posted on 09/26/2005 7:32:19 AM PDT by LdSentinal
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After the cuts were announced in Philadelphia, Walker Lundy, the former editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, told National Public Radio that newspaper companies "are eating their seed corn."

Let's hope so.

2 posted on 09/26/2005 7:34:17 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: LdSentinal

Knee jerk liberal rag. I get this paper only for the crossword puzzle and sports page. They are sinking themselves for their slanted news coverage.


3 posted on 09/26/2005 7:37:19 AM PDT by vets son
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The "seed corn" is no good. They need to switch seed supply houses, so they may as well throw out the seed corn. (lefty- marxist trained moonbats)


4 posted on 09/26/2005 7:38:20 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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Hopefully the Salt Lake Tribune will soon have the same thing happen.


5 posted on 09/26/2005 7:38:36 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Modernist American Art in the West)
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To: 2banana
"I fear for their future" .....

Well, well.....the most left wing slice of the media is having problems.....

Sob, sob.

6 posted on 09/26/2005 7:39:12 AM PDT by Republic If You Can Keep It
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To: LdSentinal

More good news from the war front to save America from the socialist/terrorist coalition.

The MSM still hasn't figured out that the real polls are supplied by the American people who vote with their pocketbook.........


7 posted on 09/26/2005 7:40:25 AM PDT by federal
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Can't make payroll?
Try the truth!

8 posted on 09/26/2005 7:40:40 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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I wonder if this is cyclical or if we're witnessing the death of the big daily newspapers.


9 posted on 09/26/2005 7:41:05 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Nemo me impune lacessit)
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To: vets son

...some of the Sunday funnies, and the TV listings...


10 posted on 09/26/2005 7:41:07 AM PDT by null and void (I'm a patient and peaceful man. Threaten me or mine, and that changes. Then, I am a vengeful man.)
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"Yeah, I told you there was  A CLIMATE OF FEAR in the newsroom." 
                                                                    Dan Rather
 
and
 
"Yeah, I told you there was  A CLIMATE OF FEAR in the newsroom." 
                                                                    Dan Rather

11 posted on 09/26/2005 7:41:56 AM PDT by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: vets son
Moved from San Jose eight years ago. I now listen to KSFO online where Lee and Melanie keep me updated on everything I need to know about the Bay Area.

Leigh Weimers was always a good friend.

12 posted on 09/26/2005 7:42:42 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Modernist American Art in the West)
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To: LdSentinal

INDIA ??


13 posted on 09/26/2005 7:43:06 AM PDT by traumer
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To: LdSentinal; NormsRevenge
That discharged journalistic talent can migrate over to the free-of-charge-movie-listing-massage-therapy rag Metro
14 posted on 09/26/2005 7:44:35 AM PDT by martin_fierro (|\/|4R71|\|_P|-|13RR0)
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To: federal

I kinda figure the real polls are actually the neilsen and Arbitron ratings. These asshats can go out and screw with any number of "polls", but the one that determines what their advertising is worth is the one they can't mess with because there's a check from the other side, i.e., the buyers of said advertising who make it their business to know the real score.


15 posted on 09/26/2005 7:45:04 AM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: LdSentinal
After the cuts were announced in Philadelphia, Walker Lundy, the former editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, told National Public Radio that newspaper companies "are eating their seed corn."

More like their seed thistles.


16 posted on 09/26/2005 7:48:44 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (We need a strict constructionist - not someone who plays shadow puppet theater with the Constitution)
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I was watching a local DC news show with some big wig from the Washington Post on. They asked him to comment on the new writers for the gossip column and what's the difference between news and gossip.

His response: "I don't care, as long as it increases circulation"


17 posted on 09/26/2005 7:52:27 AM PDT by Hoodlum91
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To: LdSentinal
Front page headline in the Mercury News:

Scores Lose Jobs At Mercury News

Minorities And Women Hardest Hit

18 posted on 09/26/2005 7:54:15 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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It's the evil newspaper CEOs wanting only to make a profit! Maybe they should examine their content (ie bias) to see if they could sell more papers.


19 posted on 09/26/2005 7:57:21 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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Gee, I can't imagine why their circulation would be down.

In the 'Family' section, the 'Family Man' refers to his wife/mother of his children as his 'parenting partner'(mother is non-pc). It was at that time I cancelled my subscription. He told me that 'parenting partner' was meant for people with a sense of humor.

In another column he talked about how moms who posed nude were just your typical suburban housewives and kids shouldn't feel stigmatized that their moms had hot bodies.

Another article gushed about how great it was that teenage girls can choose to experiment in lesbianism.

In their religious section they had an article about how a teenage girl rejected her family's religion,left her church and is exploring her spirituality.

In the 'home section they depict a lesbian couple as just another example of the 'typical' home buyer in Santa Clara County.

They routinely refer to President Bush as Bush or the Bush Whitehouse, yet always refer to former president Clinton as President.

I haven't paid for the paper in 3 years. I occasionally peruse my neighbor's copy when we're house-sitting just to see if anything's improved and it's still a piece of crap.


20 posted on 09/26/2005 8:23:17 AM PDT by TMD (Get Planned Parenthood out of our schools!)
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