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Steal This Newspaper (Minneapolis <Red> Star Story - Hillarious)
New York Times ^
| April 17, 2006
| David Carr
Posted on 04/17/2006 4:47:22 AM PDT by abb
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We can't help but eventually win when the enemy cuts each other up like this...
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posted on
04/17/2006 4:47:27 AM PDT
by
abb
To: abb
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posted on
04/17/2006 5:06:12 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: abb
When the memo landed on Romenesko, the journalism site, the company, rather than realizing that it had stepped in something unwholesome, began telling employees that the leaker would be found out and dealt with. --- It's not a "leaker", it's a "whistleblower"!
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posted on
04/17/2006 5:09:13 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
That tirade by Romenesko ranks right up there with the classic, "No fighting in here! This is a war room!"
ROFLMAO!
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posted on
04/17/2006 5:10:58 AM PDT
by
abb
(Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
To: abb
Put another way: Even the people that write for the Star & Sickle don't find it worth paying for.
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posted on
04/17/2006 5:11:47 AM PDT
by
Egon
(We are number one! All others are number two... or lower.)
To: abb
If the people who make the paper believe that an electronic version of the product is just as good as the one readers pay for, why bother subscribing? This month, Jack Shafer, the media columnist for Slate, suggested that the new, improved Web site of The New York Times had persuaded him to stop paying $621.40 for an annual subscription. You're right, abb - this is hilarious.
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posted on
04/17/2006 5:12:10 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: abb
The saying goes....you just can't make stuff like this up.
When your enemy seems intent on suicide, back off and watch the process.
Life sure sucks fo McClatchy stockholders that became the proud new owners of this mess. Their comment was "we didn't do it"
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posted on
04/17/2006 5:23:47 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)
To: bert
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posted on
04/17/2006 5:28:50 AM PDT
by
abb
(Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
To: Egon
LOL That's the first thing that came to mind.
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posted on
04/17/2006 5:34:18 AM PDT
by
babydoll22
(If you stop growing as a person you live in your own private hell.)
To: abb
Free copies of the local paper, The Daily Breeze, were available at their offices but this practice ended about 25 years ago.
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posted on
04/17/2006 5:34:20 AM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: ncountylee
The local Gannetoids are throwing their trash in my driveway again, hoping to get me subscribe I suppose.
I'm debating whether or not to call the sheriff and have them ticketed for littering...
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posted on
04/17/2006 5:57:30 AM PDT
by
abb
(Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
To: Egon
>> Even the people that write for the Star & Sickle don't find it worth paying for. <<
Not only that, they don't find it worth 25 cents. LOL
And that is today, when 25 cents is almost throw away change. (What can you actually buy for 25 cents? Maybe a gum ball.)
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posted on
04/17/2006 5:57:53 AM PDT
by
sd-joe
To: abb
"During the first week that the additional on-site racks were in service, 43 percent of the Star Tribunes removed from those racks were not paid for. For the second week the rate was 41 percent. This is called 'pilferage' in our business; but put more plainly, it is theft, pure and simple."
This quote has a delightful Captain Queeg, "who at the strawberries" quality about it.
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posted on
04/17/2006 6:03:13 AM PDT
by
6SJ7
To: 6SJ7
"But the strawberries! That's where I got them! With, with geometrice logic, I proved they stole them!"
LOLOLOL!!
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posted on
04/17/2006 6:05:57 AM PDT
by
abb
(Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
To: abb
Who needs a paper copy when you can take your Blackberry to the john?
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posted on
04/17/2006 6:09:25 AM PDT
by
IamConservative
(Who does not trust a man of principle? A man who has none.)
To: abb
When I was a kid in the mid-Fifties, my father worked for the WaPo. He used to bring free newspapers home by the armful, not only the Post but papers nationwide! Most of what I know about the US came from those papers, read while I ate breakfast.
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posted on
04/17/2006 6:15:17 AM PDT
by
Snickersnee
(Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
To: abb
...message from Steve Alexander, senior vice president for circulation...Makes me wonder what the Junior presidents and Junior vice-presidents of circulation are doing to occupy their time.
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posted on
04/17/2006 7:04:47 AM PDT
by
elli1
To: elli1
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posted on
04/17/2006 7:06:51 AM PDT
by
abb
(Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
To: abb
To: abb
I gets even better...
http://www.citypages.com/databank/27/1323/article14270.asp
I have 2 family members that work for the Strib. Both report that morale has never been lower.
The management side of the business is ballooning while production employees with decades of experience are being driven-out.
I could post some real horror stories about the place.
Suffice it to say that anyone worth a damn is jumping ship while McClatchy's minions re-arrange the deck chairs.
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posted on
04/17/2006 7:21:00 AM PDT
by
Spruce
(Keep your mitts off my wallet)
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