31 layoffs Monday at Gannett's Arizona Republic (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

VisualEditors ^ | November 14, 2006 | Staff

[abb]

yeah 31 here at the republic today... and a couple empty desks right next to me where editors used to be Sad

[abb]

Tuesday Afternoon Good News...

GONE WITH THE WIND - 2006

"There was a land of Publishers and Editors called the Newspaper Business... Here in this pretty world Journalism took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Reporters and their Enablers, of Anonymous Sources and of Stringers... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization Gone With the Wind..."

With apologies to Margaret Mitchell...

[abb]

Raoul's First Law of Journalism
BIAS = LAYOFFS

[abb]

Ping

[Paleo Conservative]

Q: Do you know how to make a small fortune in the newspaper business?

A: Start with a large one.

[Brilliant]

Someone else posted this:

"It's when I read posts like this that I'm glad I belong to a union. Doesn't mean there aren't layoffs but the terms have to be negotiated and people have to be treated decently."

Personally, I support unionization of the media. It's just about the only place I think it might actually help.

[ModelBreaker]

Personally, I support unionization of the media. It's just about the only place I think it might actually help.

Well, if it made them less profitable, they might go out of business faster.

[Brilliant]

That's what I mean.

[Spiff]

[abb]

http://www.clothmonkey.com/distress.htm

[John Lenin]

[Jacquerie]

RIP The Washington Star. Murdered by unions.

[Right Wing Agitator]

The Arizona Republic called me this week to ask if I would like to subscribe at a special low rate. Maybe they were trying to build up enough customers to prevent the layoffs? I told the caller that I would NEVER EVER purchase a newspaper that openly supports illegal immigration... Dead silence on the phone until I asked if she was still there. She politely ended the call and I hope she told her superiors what my response was.

[abb]

CQD CQD SOS SOS CQD DE MGY MGY MGY

[Milhous]

I love my calling. But I think I'm starting to hate this business.

Get in line.

[Just Lori]

Gannett....the company which owns the military times magazines......I wish the military would dump them, too.

[camas]

cool

[Joe Boucher]

Funny thing is that this is an area booming with new residents and still they are shrinking. GOOD.
Liars,

[samadams2000]

Funnies thing, newspapers have no defenders now. They have insulted, lied to and alienated the most educated that use to read, enjoy and buy them. Theyve worked for years to tear down this country, dont think Ill raise a stink or a finger to save them.

[Joe Boucher]

But then how can you read of their demise in their own obits?

[Grampa Dave]

Oh boy, here it comes again! Woe is us in the lying er newspaper racket. Announcements like this, just makes the heads of professional liars, er, journalists, spin.