Desperate times in the newspaper business lead to drastic measures (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Ft. Worth Star Telegram ^ | November 9, 2008 | MITCHELL SCHNURMAN

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Sunday good news.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122608993574009247.html
Broadcast Blues Hit Media Firms

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117995398.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
ABC mandates production cuts
Producers asked to trim budgets by 2%

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ping

[WKUHilltopper]

“ABC mandates production cuts
Producers asked to trim budgets by 2%”

HAHAHAH...wonder how they love their Obaaaa-ma now?

[SkiKnee]

Absolutely good news.

Die screaming vile beast!!!

[VRWC For Truth]

New business model

[Huskrrrr]

To all you journalists with inflated perceptions of your purpose and talents....can you say “Paper or plastic?”

[max americana]

>To all you journalists with inflated perceptions of your purpose and talents....can you say “Paper or plastic?”

I thought it was “how many ketchup would you like with that, sir?”

[sgtyork]

Two words: Molly Ivins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Ivins

[uncbob]

To all you journalists with inflated perceptions of your purpose and talents....can you say “Paper or plastic?”

What makes you think those jobs will be available --Too many out of work College profs are going to be looking for them when the economy tanks and parents don't have the $$$$ for tuition

[moose2004]

The future is the internet, not print or tv. We are very strong in talk radio, but Obama and the dems kicked our a$$es online. We need to pump millions of dollars into a RNC online effort starting now, an effort that could be compared to Obama’s $605 + million, we need to drown out the dems’ online messages, essentially we need to own the internet just like the dems own cable/network news and most print news.

[17th Miss Regt]

The idiots will never figure out:

Bias = Layoffs

[Floratina]

I wish I could eliminate Valpak and other spam of that ilk from clogging my mailbox. Grrrrrr...

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Maybe the media needs to start practicing “diversity”...real diversity...stop being a bunch of liberal libertine suckups

[Montfort]

If the fairness doctrine shuts down much of talk radio, there will be demand for conservative content. Newspapers could make some serious money by serving up some conservative content.

[Osage Orange]

My paper of choice...announced recently they will not deliver to some areas of the state.

One of those areas...is mine.

I guess I am expendable. Ha!!

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Take the money you were wasting on that newspaper subscription and send it in to Jim Rob. You have no idea how good it will make you feel.

[Osage Orange]

Ha!!

I didn't have a subscription....although I bought it nearly everyday.

Pretty right of center fish wrap...fwiw-

I give to FR...every year.

Thanks!!

[engrpat]

I'm not going to say that this paper, the Star-Telegram, is in the tank for Obama but two Sundays in a row they had stories about him in the sports pages. The SPORTS pages! They are so left it is unreal.

Last Wednesday I stopped taking it 7 days a week to Sundays only. I emailed this author and told him that when the last one out of building that turns out the light...well I will be the in the parking lot doing the happy dance.

[Red Dog #1]

I’d love to see a conservative subscription site with it’s staff of reports and bureaus. We’ve got plenty of conservative opinion bloggers but most of our ‘hard news” stories still come from the MSM. $50 a month would be more than reasonably for a good product.