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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    12/08/09

    In reply to The New York Times Buyout List (Updated)
    I'm surprised Bono didn't take the buyout.
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    12/08/09

    In reply to The New York Times Buyout List (Updated)
    God, MORE cuts to local coverage? Please don't do that, NYT.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/07/09

    In reply to The New York Times Buyout List (Updated)
    Please tell me we will still have Bill Cunningham to love and hug. Everyone else, meh.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/07/09

    @miss_msry: You kidding? Cunningham will be delivering papers on his bike as he snaps pix of Manhattan's copycat chi-chi-rati.
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    Image of TheSometimesWhy TheSometimesWhy
    12/07/09

    In reply to The New York Times Buyout List (Updated)
    Last one out turn off the Mr Coffee...
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    Image of tabloidhero tabloidhero
    12/08/09

    @TheSometimesWhy: If only the Eighth Ave newsroom had coffee makers or free coffee... or a coffee-cart-pusher for that matter...
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    Image of TheSometimesWhy TheSometimesWhy
    12/08/09

    @tabloidhero: You know, as I typed that line rather blithely, a shiver ran down my spine that what if things had sunk to the level that even poor Mr. Coffee had become a casualty of the economic times? Could that possibly be?

    And not even a mention in the local obit--oh, the humanity! (Or lack thereof.)
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    12/08/09

    @tabloidhero: Well, there is free coffee once a day. They push the coffee cart into the newsroom on the 3rd floor around 5 or 5:15 most days. Yes, I know, the perks are simply amazing.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/03/09

    In reply to DailyCandy Sours on Most of Its Cities
    This also shows that Comcast/NBCU deal not about digital/online but about TV channels. Short-sighted.
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    12/03/09

    Update: Comcast is excited about Web video -- just not websites without video.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    12/03/09

    In reply to DailyCandy Sours on Most of Its Cities
    People don't want daily emails on useless expensive shit they could buy if they had any money, which they don't, so they can't?

    Advertisers don't want to pay to be part of daily emails about that?
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/03/09

    In reply to DailyCandy Sours on Most of Its Cities
    Killing the Daily Candy local edition in Philly, home to Comcast HQ - youch. And expanding into beauty, entertainment, mom-as-mom and mom-as-woman content - yuck.
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    12/03/09

    @GlasgowRose: Has anyone heard of this "mom-as-woman/mom-as-mom content" term before? It sounds... well, admirably misguided.
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    12/03/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: Misguided, yes. Admirably so, no. Crass attempt to cash in on & pander to mommyblogger phenom.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to DailyCandy Sours on Most of Its Cities
    Good Lord. How will subscribers live without the skinny on $100 bars of soap?
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    12/03/09

    In reply to DailyCandy Sours on Most of Its Cities
    I still have no idea why I subscribe to DC, considering it gets deleted every time it appears in my inbox.
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    Image of Island of Misfit Toys Island of Misfit Toys
    12/03/09

    In reply to National Geographic Adventure Folds
    This is the first magazine death that upset me.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    12/03/09

    In reply to National Geographic Adventure Folds
    The wife and I were subscribing to NatGeo Adventure up until a couple of months ago. Sorry for any part, I may have played in its demise.

    PS) We still get the main mag and the Kids, so don't blame me if other units are having problems.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/03/09

    In reply to National Geographic Adventure Folds
    Shiite, I subscribed just YESTERDAY to NatGeo Adventure as a Christmas present for my nephew. Now I have to get online and find something else just as cheap.

    Are the powers at Belo out of their minds?
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    12/03/09

    In reply to National Geographic Adventure Folds
    Re: The Dallas Morning News. Turning over edit to sales is the breaking of the seventh seal, right? And I say this as a business guy.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    12/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: DMN is owned by the evil overload Belo Corporation, which has always seemed to filter its right-wing affiliations through the content of the paper. This is just another nail in its coffin of suck.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    12/03/09

    @Atilla the Bun: Well, as much as I dislike the right wing, they have the inalienable right to be stupid in their printed opinions, and of course even supposedly objective content will have a slant or a tinge--that's just the way the world works. But knocking down the church/state wall? Ugly!
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    12/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: I was raised with the Morning News as the regional Big City paper, and it has ever blended sections into one monolith. The news other places might carry stories of how Ross Perot is embarrassed that his EDS could not account for a million in services paid for by the feds, but the Op-Ed of the Morning News was all about a Black mother accepting a fifty dollar welfare payment to which she was apparently not entitled. Also, you'd see no even-handed review of the Oil Depletion Allowance, and over in sports, a writer was railing against Carlos and Smith years after they'd lifted their hands in Mexico City. It was Faux Noise in print, and I wonder why Rupert never bothered to acquire it.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    12/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: The problem is that because of the easing of FCC restrictions that used to strictly limit the number of newspapers and broadcast stations that an entity could own, Belo now controls a large amount of news content, much of which purports to be objective and simply isn't. Belo has the right to do this, certainly, but I also have the right to say it makes for sucky "journalism." This latest bit of news is just more of the same.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    12/03/09

    @Atilla the Bun: Point taken, and I grieve to remember that those rules were eased by the Clinton administration, and the late Ted Kennedy, to his shame, further eased restrictions on ownership for the foreign-born Rupert.
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    12/03/09

    @Tremonius: I take your word for it. I'd always heard that the Star-Telegram was a more enlightened paper. True?
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    Image of Spaghetti Cat Spaghetti Cat
    12/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: It is- and as a working (for the moment) journalist- this is the kind of thing that both nauseates and scares the shit out of me.

    Aside from the "favors for favors" ickiness associated with a policy move of this sort, what really makes my skin crawl is the thought of having to work hand in hand with sales staff.

    If the ones at my pub are any indication of the norm- these people are fucking retards with no scruples whose only concern is their commission. Not a good alliance for anyone who wishes to keep integrity in their newsroom.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    12/03/09

    @Spaghetti Cat: As a sales guy and publisher, I thank you.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    12/04/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: I'm going to ask my brother next time we talk about how the Ft Worth paper is today. I never had much experience with it way back when.

    It is truly amazing how isolated we all were in the fifties out there on that lonesome prairie. I can remember hitching rides to Big D for Rolling Stone and Beat literature at the Doubleday bookshop on Elm or one of them. I had to go nearly a hundred miles as the road runs to find anything not hewing to the company line.

    The brightest of us went away to school, and came back, and we marveled. I remember conversations with two buddies of that hierarchy, and neither one of them could tell what exactly it meant to be "conservative" or "liberal." It's like a concept of feathered flying critters to a mob of penguins.
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    12/04/09

    @Spaghetti Cat: Okay, distinguish for us other voices from other rooms. Like ... esteemed medical research schools which take contributions from interested parties like the drug and tobacco industry. Doctors prescribing ever more "tests" utilizing facilities in which they hold investments. Or, for that matter, the general and universal refusal of any news business to cite the number one factor in the Repugnant party: deficient or demented mental capacity.
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    Image of Spaghetti Cat Spaghetti Cat
    12/04/09

    @Tremonius: Are you asking me to distinguish who among this example is behaving with integrity? Or how can one behave with integrity when one's resources are tied to another industry with specific interests of its own?

    If yes- I see your point. It is difficult to keep integrity when the almighty dollar is what makes the world go 'round. How is this to be avoided? Good question.

    As for the refusal of most media organizations to finger the Republican party as mentally deficient, etc- I'd hope it doesn't take a media personality, article or punditry of any kind to point out what is patently obvious anytime one of these "demented" individuals opens their mouth. I mean- most of these motherfuckers say it loud and plain themselves anytime they speak in public.

    And in the interest of being truthful, the media would also be obligated to point out that a good number of Democrats are substantially challenged as well- see: concessions re: Stupak/Pitts amendment.

    As is the case in most management structures, the unimaginative and ineffective rise to the top, and everyone else is left to make the best of it. And that's the unfortunate state of affairs these days from newsrooms trying to survive to the top of the American legislature.
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    Image of paxcincinnatus paxcincinnatus
    12/03/09

    In reply to National Geographic Adventure Folds
    You know, I've always been ambivalent toward Town & Country. . . but now that their showing some skin - now I am totally on board.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    12/02/09

    In reply to Washington Times to 'Become a 21st Century Multimedia Company,' Fire Almost Half Its Staff
    I wasn't aware that producing pure bullshit propaganda entailed that much overhead. Go figure.
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