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Tampa Bay Times to slash dozens of jobs
Tampa Bay Times ^

Posted on 04/18/2018 7:32:54 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

The Tampa Bay Times is cutting "approximately" 50 jobs after new tariffs sent the price of newsprint skyrocketing.

Paul Tash, the newspaper's chairman and CEO, had warned of the potential for job cuts in a March 23 column, writing that the new tariffs could add more than $3 million to the Times' newsprint bill.

(Excerpt) Read more at bizjournals.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: layoffs; liberalmedia; maga; winning
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Trump's fault. Even when he goes after China, he manages a behind the back shot against the libtard press.
1 posted on 04/18/2018 7:32:54 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

BIAS = LAYOFFS


2 posted on 04/18/2018 7:33:21 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: Doctor Raoul

BTTT


3 posted on 04/18/2018 7:33:39 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: ameribbean expat
Had traditional newspapers been committed to journalistic integrity, they would have maintained strong circulation enough to weather the changes in both publishing and the economy.

They are reaping what they have sown for generations.

4 posted on 04/18/2018 7:43:33 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Progressives are turning America into "Harrison Bergeron" if conceived by Ayn Rand.)
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To: ameribbean expat

They deserve to go out of business. If they didn’t reprint the New York Times and Washington Post articles and editorials, they would’t have anything to print at all.


5 posted on 04/18/2018 7:44:03 PM PDT by shortstop (I used to wrap fish in the New York Times, but it made the fish stink.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Was this before or after the newspaper implemented the ‘living wage’ that they so avidly support? Fully employer paid health care? Affordable housing for employees? Perhaps if they put up a few more solar arrays, their carbon footprint savings will be enough to offset the carbon footprint of destroying oxygen giving trees and the massive pollution cost in transporting large rolls of newsprint from out of the country...?

Welcome to the world you made, Tampa Bay Times.


6 posted on 04/18/2018 7:59:49 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Why can’t this paper buy its newsprint from Canada, and there would be no tariff?


7 posted on 04/18/2018 7:59:51 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: ameribbean expat

Maybe they could cut out some of their nastiest leftist features and opinion.


8 posted on 04/18/2018 8:03:35 PM PDT by Iron Munro (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. -- Voltaire.)
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To: ameribbean expat

They should stop killing trees anyhow. /s


9 posted on 04/18/2018 8:12:43 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: ameribbean expat

News flu. It seems to be spreading. Denver Post, now Tampa Bay. They will blame everything and everyone but themselves. Which is fine as they are doomed anyway.


10 posted on 04/18/2018 8:13:39 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: ameribbean expat

The leftist Tampa Bay Times was formerly the St. Petersburg Times (aka ‘Pravda On The Bay’).

They bought out their competition on the other side of Tampa Bay, the centrist Tampa Tribune, and closed it down.

Then stuck Tribune subscribers with the Tampa Bay Times as a replacement.

Then raised subscription rates.

Then cut out the weekly TV listings and made them available as a separate publication - at an additional cost of course.

And as the paper gets smaller and smaller it turns more and more to the left.


11 posted on 04/18/2018 8:15:36 PM PDT by Iron Munro (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. -- Voltaire.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Serves the bastards right. A more evil employer there has never been.

I used to deliver the Tampa Times in about 1960 or so. A den of thieves and crooks. Nobody but the boss made anything off delivering the papers, the kids were lucky if they didn’t have to pay for papers out of their own pocket.


12 posted on 04/18/2018 8:21:16 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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What tariffs? We have wood, mills, trucks, and all the minerals to make ink.
President Trump wants us to rebuild our companies, buildings, mines, farms, mills and people.
Buy American


13 posted on 04/18/2018 8:30:21 PM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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To: ameribbean expat
In the 1980’s, the environmentalists ran the American paper industry out of business and to Indonesia and then China.

It was impossible to build new capacity or upgrade present facilities. Wood procurement in the West was shut down to save the G D spotted owl. Add to that, the left’s darling - the unions- raised wages and benefits such that labor was uncompetitive.

Besides that fact print media is dying, let's put the blame for high paper costs (tariffs) where it belongs, on the Left.

disclosure - I worked 30+ years in sales for North American paper makers.

14 posted on 04/18/2018 8:34:52 PM PDT by llevrok (DACA = Democrats Against Citizen Americans)
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To: Theodore R.

[Why can’t this paper buy its newsprint from Canada]

How about AMERICAN MADE newsprint?


15 posted on 04/18/2018 8:42:28 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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To: llevrok

[Besides that fact print media is dying, let’s put the blame for high paper costs]

Liberal newspapers raised the cost of ads beyond the budgets of small business. Newspapers that used to have three or four editions now have 10 pages max.

However, shoppers guides are thriving.


16 posted on 04/18/2018 8:45:55 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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To: ameribbean expat

Too bad for Tampa Bay Pravda!


17 posted on 04/18/2018 8:57:01 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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To: namvolunteer

, namvolunteer wrote:What tariffs ?
Sugar tariffs ? (our subsidies drove candy makers out of this country) Newsprint paper ? Ink ? MGD (Miele Goss Dexter) Presses ? . Excuse offered smells like BD (bovine defecation)


18 posted on 04/18/2018 9:04:10 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin another gem posted in the wilderness)
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To: ameribbean expat

More WINNING!


19 posted on 04/18/2018 9:24:36 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: ameribbean expat

Tampa Bay Times calls us no less than 5 times a day trying to get us to re-subscribe to the paper. My 13 year old used to read the comics and my dad would do the crossword puzzle when he visits, and the rest went straight into recycling without being read.


20 posted on 04/18/2018 9:28:26 PM PDT by pinkandgreenmom
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