Tampa Bay Times Financials Strained

Tampa Tribune ^ | 03/01/14 | Richard Mullins

[shortstop]

Who said there is never any good news anymore. I hope this rag goes under and takes their hack columnists and liberal suck ups with them. Worst paper in the country. I'll be the first to say good riddance when they go.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And take the Mpls Star and Des Moines Register with them.

[2banana]

Don’t get your hopes up.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (which had editorials endorsing Kerry for 21 straight days) has gone bankrupt TWICE and is still losing money to this day.

YET - It continues to publish every day...

[soycd]

Soros will spot them a few million to stock up on barrels of leftist ink.

[jjotto]

Unreported campaign contributions to Democrats, like most big city dailies. And look for them to give away lots of free copies/subscriptions around election time.

[Dan Nunn]

The Tribune is really going after the Times this morning, probably in response to the Times firing its first shot a couple weeks ago: Jo-Ann Stores sues Tampa Tribune, alleging inflated circulation numbers.

Here's another followup sure to be highlighted by the Tribune this weekend: Poynter Institute's Struggles Mirror the Times.

I loved this part:

While Times reporters have often investigated nonprofits and charities and the paper has published an ongoing series titled “America’s Worst Charities,” Poynter stumbled in getting its own nonprofit properly registered with the state.

Poynter failed to file paperwork with Florida to register as a nonprofit entity until 2009, decades after the Times patriarch Nelson Poynter established the school.

Remember, the Tampa Bay Times is the organization that publicizes Politifact.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Jo-Ann Fabric & Crafts BUMP! Just the excuse I needed to shop for fabric and yarn!!

Not that I needed one, but I do tend to ‘vote’ with my dwindling discretionary dollars. :)

[napscoordinator]

Anybody that is in the newspaper business MUST know that their days are numbers. It is stunning that this is such a shock. Of course they are going to lose revenue every year. Heck by the time a newspaper comes out the news is moldy and discussed inside and out over and over. Even conservative papers are in jeopardy. I get the Catholic paper from my diocese and know that it is a mater of time before I get a notice saying this is your last paper, we have gone exclusively on-line. I seriously think this ever issue and pleasantly surprised that I will get at least one more hard-copy issue.

[skinkinthegrass]

and Lexington unHeralded/misLeader with them, too...PLEASE!
for that matter, The Louisville Courier-urinJournal, also...
both are Commie Liberal/Marxists rags/tampon KY. papers.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Their time is nearly over.
The little machine you're sitting in front of destroyed them.

[Darth Reardon]

In October 2011, the Times began a round of layoffs “to lower our costs in this terrible economy,”

So, were they reporting on the “terrible” economy at that time, or touting the party “recovery” line?

[sjmjax]

Grew up in that area. St Pete Times now the Tampa Bay Times is so far left wing that every subscription should come with a Hammer & Sickle flag and autographed photo of Lenin.

[Tonytitan]

Their time is nearly over. The little machine you're sitting in front of destroyed them.

Will be glad when it happens to the NY Slimes, Washington Compost and the Nightly Network News on any broadcast channel(no more Sawyer, Shieffer, Williams, et al).

[4integrity]

‘...hope this rag goes under and takes their hack columnists and liberal suck ups with them...’

Agree!! Would love to see Fox’s Roger Ailes take over....justice!

[catnipman]

“After years of offering online news for free online, the Times began charging for access to its news website in September, even for current newspaper subscribers.”

Generally, entombing your digital content in a bunker like this is close to the last step towards bankruptcy for a media publishing outfit, either that or a diminution of its influence to the point that its simply fades away like the faint buzzing of mosquitoes in the very far distance, possibly slightly annoying, but of no real consequence.

My heart sings with joy each and every time I watch a Progressive/Democrat/Socialist media outfit plummeting to its doom in such fiery death spirals.

[Hardastarboard]

I would love to be out for an evening on the town and see Brian Williams shivering in the tattered, flthy remnants of a $1,500 Versace suit, searching desperately in the bottom of a dumpster for the least moldy / rotten bread crusts (and finding nothing).

I'd throw him a couple of pennies, with an accompanying "For all the great work you did protecting my country from fascism and governmental excess".

[MplsSteve]

I used to have family in St Pete back in the late 90’s thru about 2004.

Back then, the St Petersburg Times (which by the way, I hadn’t heard they changed their name) was not a good newspaper. You could sense the leftist bias even back then.

I would buy the Tampa Tribune. Their news was better and although I couldn’t call it a GOP-leaning newspaper, I thought their editorial pages were more well-balanced.

[skinkinthegrass]

"little machine"..and their Marxist ideologically corrupt ideas.

[VRW Conspirator]

Back then, the St Petersburg Times (which by the way, I hadn’t heard they changed their name) was not a good newspaper. You could sense the leftist bias even back then.

Roger that. Why didn't they just change their name to the Stalingrad Times I'll never know.

[dfwgator]

Back then, the St Petersburg Times (which by the way, I hadn’t heard they changed their name) was not a good newspaper. You could sense the leftist bias even back then. Roger that. Why didn't they just change their name to the Stalingrad Times I'll never know.

Don't you mean "Leningrad Times" ;)