[abb]

We can't help but eventually win when the enemy cuts each other up like this...

[Izzy Dunne]

Go to www.BugMeNot.com for a name / password, if you don't want to register.

[Izzy Dunne]

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"!

[Egon]

Put another way: Even the people that write for the Star & Sickle don't find it worth paying for.

[Izzy Dunne]

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.

[bert]

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"

[ncountylee]

Free copies of the local paper, The Daily Breeze, were available at their offices but this practice ended about 25 years ago.

[6SJ7]

"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.

[IamConservative]

Who needs a paper copy when you can take your Blackberry to the john?

[Snickersnee]

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.

[elli1]

...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.

[Spruce]

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.

[listenhillary]

Find later

[Grampa Dave]

This is so funny, I thought that I was ready a thread from a satire site.