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    Image of sweetpickles sweetpickles
    11/25/09

    In reply to Martha Stewart Caught in Bed With Big Government
    Do magazines think people want to wait for their regurgitated content on a monthly basis again? No. They do not. Silly magazines. You're going to have to offer people subscriptions to a bunch of your sites. And not .pdfs.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to Martha Stewart Caught in Bed With Big Government
    From the looks of the picture, Martha Stewart is in bed with something other than the State Dept.

    With that stick, it is no wonder she doesn't need a man.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    11/25/09

    In reply to Tipster Confirms Ten Layoffs at the New York Post
    Back in the 80s, my first real job was a reporter for a local bi-weekly up in Putnam county. The only other reporter on the staff of that paper - hired the same time I was was - is now a reporter for the New York Post.

    Although I haven't to him in over 20 years, I hope he's not on this layoff list. He probably isn't though, since the Post hired him only a year ago, and he's really good.
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    11/25/09

    @MisterHippity: I know that was probably interesting to nobody but me, but I just felt like sharing it. It's the "reminiscence disease." Comes with age, I guess.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    11/25/09

    In reply to Tipster Confirms Ten Layoffs at the New York Post
    "the dismissals are not economically motivated"

    Of course not. Has the Post ever made money?
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    Image of hgitty hgitty
    11/25/09

    In reply to Tipster Confirms Ten Layoffs at the New York Post
    There aren't any minorities at the Post, anymore.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    11/25/09

    Not so: there's at least one lesbian racist in the bunch.
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    Image of kappakappaspankme kappakappaspankme
    11/25/09

    In reply to Tipster Confirms Ten Layoffs at the New York Post
    I'm a bit confused. The tipster states that these people should have been released a while ago. Then he/she goes on to say that most of them are minorities.

    Were these employees tapped to be right-sized out of the building due to poor performance? Were they given the shitty assignments because they were minorities?

    Given the tipster's comments, I'm not sure if we should be upset that minorities are being unfairly targeted or if we should simply feel badly for yet another round of layoffs.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
    Oh no! I'm getting married in 2011, how will I ever know how to plan my own wedding without the help of overpriced wedding mags?!!!
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    Image of 2Winners 2Winners
    11/24/09

    In reply to Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
    This is actually great for all celebrity brides. Haven't we all heard of the InStyle Weddings Curse? (Jennifer Morrison from "House," I'm looking in your direction)
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    11/24/09

    @2Winners: Luckily, Christina Hendricks just killed the magazine, not her own relationship.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/24/09

    In reply to Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
    In a related story, jeepers h. christmas Christina Hendricks is so unbelievably hot I'm afraid my monitor is going to melt and fuse with me desk.
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    Image of manchops manchops
    11/24/09

    In reply to Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
    more and more reasons to LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE!
    I mean, seriously! Start submitting the mag titles now, this could SAVE the whole industry!
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    Image of rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
    11/24/09

    In reply to Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
    I really don't understand how you couldn't make money on a bridal magazine. Your readers only get them for a year (unless they've gone way overboard) and then you can start recycling content (with some new pictures and up to date references). The only work to be done is selling ad space.
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    Image of manchops manchops
    11/24/09

    @rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny: because the demo is so directly targeted (as in: I just got proposed to! I need to plan a huge wedding! Where do I start? What do I do?) the advertising in these mags was huge! and at top rates. Sorta like a mag for people who just won a million dollars and had never heard of a retail store.
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    Image of ArtfulSlinger ArtfulSlinger
    11/24/09

    @manchops: Shouldn't then the magazine just become more targeted in region? So the ads could coordinate with the content, like New York Mag. You do a few editions, have local affiliates, etc.

    Im here all week Time Inc, whatever you need from me.
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    Image of manchops manchops
    11/24/09

    @ArtfulSlinger: You're right, and that's probably what's happening. Local mags and newspapers always do special wedding supplements and are teaming with all those tuxedo rental, caterer kinda ads. Face it, the big glossy wedding mags were basic nuptial porn. Hard to afford these days...
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    11/24/09

    @manchops: Not only that not at all helpful compared to the blogs. There are hundreds of blogs just focused on printed collateral, let alone dresses, decor, rings, etc.
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    11/24/09

    @ArtfulSlinger: basically the demo got younger, like all the demos, and use the internet. I've been in magazines for a dozen years and could never believe how they just sat back and let this happen.
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    Image of sweetpickles sweetpickles
    11/24/09

    In reply to Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
    Another piece of the straight marriage industrial complex's soul: ripped to shreds! Now our lady partners will have to consult gay blogs to see which napkins are hot this season.
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    Image of louise louise
    11/24/09

    In reply to Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
    Let's hope the SI/Fortune PTB don't follow their HBO brethren's example and have the HR head do a victory lap w/her VP showing off new mink coats purchased with their bonuses.
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    Image of dreweverett dreweverett
    11/24/09

    In reply to Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
    At least one print outlet is being "resurrected." From TPM - "Staff of the Southern Voice, a gay weekly in Atlanta and one of the handful of publications shut down abruptly by parent company Window Media last week, have received a $12,000 matching grant to start a new publication. "

    Anyway, thought some good news would be in order...

    [tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com]

    #Tips
    #The Gays
    #Thingswelike
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/24/09

    In reply to Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
    Naturally the horrible murders in the Philippines dwarfs anything else in this post--the enormity of the evil is staggering. But to deal with what my mind can wrap itself around, does anyone else remember when companies--even magazine companies--had sufficient humanity to wait until after the holidays to do layoffs? Now the objective is just to get 'em off the expense side before the new budget kicks in. I always wonder how the executioner executives can watch or read A Christmas Carol unironically.
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    Image of Pesti-Esti Pesti-Esti
    11/24/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: I would argue that it is still before the holidays. After what date would you no longer lay people off? November 1? Labor Day? Yeah, laying someone off on December 15 is kinda prickish, but lets get a handle on extending the holidays t0 over 15% of the year.

    On the bright side, at least they were laid off before they did their shopping. In a way, it's probably better than being laid off on January 10. Not that being laid off anytime doesn't suck.
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    11/24/09

    @Pesti-Esti: I think laying someone off two days before Thanksgiving is dickish. What should be the cutoff? In the old days, it was usually November 1.

    #tips
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    11/24/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Fortune laid me off a couple of weeks before my wife gave birth, so I wouldn't go looking for a lot of humanity there.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/24/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: +1111111111111
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/24/09

    @Mediahohoho: Sadz
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/24/09

    @Mediahohoho: Yeah, that is awful. Anytime a company refers to its employees as "our family," I reach for my pistol.

    #tips
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