Grim Father Time fingering Time. Many happy returns of this day.
Posted on 01/19/2007 6:43:13 AM PST by randog
January 19, 2007 -- THE bloodbath at Time Inc. turned out to be worse than many had anticipated, with the final number of staff cuts swelling to 289 workers and Time, People and Sports Illustrated taking the heaviest hits.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
"...future of flexible, multiplatform content creation."
Tis a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.
Yep, the NY Time and Katie Couric are so... yesterday.
"The news mags are all doomed."
Bingo. It is similar to what David Halberstam chronicled in his book, The Reckoning. There the dinosaur Big 3 auto makers got fat and lazy and took their customer base for granted. They were woefully unprepared for the Japanese auto incursion. Here the big news magazines are woefully unprepared for the internet incursion. By the time they restructure enough to appeal to a wide customer base in order to compete again, they will no longer be the voice of the left and therefore the left will attack them as tree-wasters. I don't see a win-win for the news magazines, although I think the public as a whole, and the trees, will definitely win.
My family was a loyal Time subscriber when I was growing up. I enjoyed reading the magazine but it was only after I was in college that I realized how biased it was. I left Time, went to Newsweek and got disgusted by its dead body photo of the week, tried US News & World Report, finally gave up on all three. My office gets Time and I leaf through it occasionally but I have not found any useful information there for at least a decade. It will be a small loss if it folds altogether.
"We are running in the red again for the last - insert accounting chicanery here - quarters, and we have no more money to keep running at the current level."
"But first let, me stress that these layoffs are not about performance mumble mumble, ... individuals mumble mumble; the layoffs are about restructuring mumbo jumbo move quickly into a future of mumble mumble mumble.
Where are those PR people!?
If you can get past King's blabbering about the NY Slimes being the greatest newspaper in the world. Leads me to believe he is nothing but a leftist liberal.
That was done a long, long, time ago.
Bummer.
Lyndon LaRouche sells
his weekly magazine for
$400 a year! [!!]
Even though he's nuts
he sells enough subscriptions
to stay in business. [!]
And, though he is nuts,
his magazine packs more punch
than Time or Newsweek.
"They've decimated what was once a respected source of news and other information," said Newspaper Guild President Barry Lipton, who had just begun negotiations on a new contract with Time Inc. "It's like Humpty Dumpty, [it] will never be put back together again."
It's like Humpty Dumpty all right but not for his reasons.
"They've decimated what was once a respected source of news and other information,"
I think ONCE is the keyword here. They should have added 'upon a time'.
all those "journalists" who believe there is a market for politically correct left wing drivil will now form blogs.
As bloggers they will get a mercy interview from CNN during a slow news day and then never heard from again.
Grim Father Time fingering Time. Many happy returns of this day.
no "jobs bank" for journalists?
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Ana Marie Cox (b. 1972) is an American author and blogger, who was the founding editor of the political blog Wonkette, and widely considered synonymous with the title.
She attended high school at Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she wrote for the school's newspaper, The Clarion. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 1994.
Cox is the former executive editor of Suck.com, where she wrote under the pen name "Ann O'Tate." She is married to Chris Lehmann, formerly of The Washington Post and New York and now an editor at Congressional Quarterly, and lives in Washington, D.C.
Under her tenure, Wonkette, published by weblog group Gawker Media since October 2003, was an often racy journal of Capitol Hill gossip—she had an infamous predilection for the word "#ssf#ck#ng"—as well as more serious matters of politics and policy. Cox and Wonkette gained notoriety in the political world for publicizing the story of Jessica Cutler, also known as "Washingtonienne", a staff assistant to Senator Mike DeWine (R.-OH), who accepted money from a Bush administration official and others in exchange for sexual favors. On January 5, 2006, she officially announced her retirement as the blog's editor and her imminent transition to "Wonkette Emerita."
Her novel Dog Days, ISBN 1-59448-901-7, a satire of Washington D.C. for which she was reportedly paid $250,000, was published on January 6, 2006. The book is widely considered to be a commercial failure, especially for such a highly-touted first novel. As of March 2006, it had sold only 5,000 copies, according to Nielsen book sales tracking figures.[citation needed] On Thursday, July 27, 2006 she was named the Washington editor of Time.com. She also pens The Ana Log on the Time web site.
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I bet Starbucks pays him extra, for all the writing he does about coffee in his articles.
These sports "experts", IMHO, rank just ahead of the betting "experts" so prominently advertised on sports talk radio.
It's time, Time.
I told you so twenty years ago when I cancelled my subscription (after many years) and told you never to contaminate my home with that propaganda rag again!
Too bad you scorned truth!
"It's like a funeral"Such is the fate of those who fail to face reality."I think everyone is too scared to be ticked off or to show they are angry"
"A somber gloom was the order of the day"
"Everyone is completely demoralized, and there is no work being done."
"It's like Humpty Dumpty, [it] will never be put back together again."
"They've decimated what was once a respected source of news and other information."That was done many years ago by the Time staff--who decided to dish out propaganda instead of offering truth and believable information.
MESSAGE TO BBC,NBC,ABC,CBS,CNN,LATIMES,NYTIMES,ETC: Are you paying attention?
If the Democrats in Congress have their way, they'll prop up Leftist propaganda rags like Time with federal government money--payed for by the American workers and tax payers. Support the Democrats (you already do!), and you may pull it out of the fire after all. The Democrat Party is always ready to encourage a Leftist/Marxist Propaganda Organ!
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