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    Marcus Brauchli β€”

    Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs

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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    11/24/09

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli β€”
    Somehow this felt appropriate.
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    Image of bess marvin, girl detective bess marvin, girl detective
    11/24/09

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli β€”
    attempting to do more with less. david simon is in a bawlmoor bar somewhere cackling.
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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    11/24/09

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli β€”
    They aren't? Well, they used to be! Great work, Marcus Brauchli! In just one year you've turned the Washington Post into a local paper. Ben Bradlee must be so proud.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/24/09

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli β€”
    Sadz.
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    11/24/09

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli β€”
    Another step in saving the New York Times.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/24/09

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli β€”
    How sad it is that he utterly misses the point of the service local bureaus render: that they provide another take, another perspective, another voice on events of national consequence on their regional beats, and because they know the paper's home audience, they can best explain why those regional events matter to the home audience. With decisions like this, newspapers ingest more and more of their suicidal poison.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/24/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: There's ***maybe*** an argument toward focusing resources locally and in depth, instead of adding the showing baubles of thinly staffed regional buros that add a 30k feet national perspective to what's going on at the local level and, in theory, could be pretty much plugged in via wire. If wire didn't totally suck.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/24/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: True, but I would cut back on soft news resources--style sections and the like--before I would cut back on news. Of course, the soft news drives circ, so...Oh, hell, I can't solve this, either.

    #tips
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    Image of Helio Helio
    11/24/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: you make the mistake of believing that the WaPo is interested in these other localities. I'm not that old, but during the time I considered myself an avid reader, it's has transformed rather convincingly into "a beltway paper." I think for a long time it was trying to compete on the same level as the NYT but it is firmly entrenched in the Insidery/Village of DC. And now that the Times is pretty much kaput, it really doesn't have to try that hard. Sadness.
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    Image of Glib and Bitchy Glib and Bitchy
    11/24/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: You would think that such a national perspective would be all the more important for the Post, given how its home audience is so heavily salted with readers whose decisions have such a profound effect on the life of the nation.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/24/09

    @Glib and Bitchy: Precisely.

    #tips
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/24/09

    @Helio: To the extent that the beltway is how the business of govt gets done, that could be a national paper

    #tips
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    Image of Helio Helio
    11/24/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Fair enough. As i see it, the business of government has largely become a rich man's game, geared towards their interests more than society's in general. And if the Post has narrowed its scope to match the likewise narrowed goals of the government, I'd say that's a pretty sad fucking thing.

    #tips
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/24/09

    @Helio: True. Sad. In the future, we'll all just be pizza deliverators.

    #tips
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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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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    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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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/22/09

    In reply to Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
    Canada perfected this little scheme back when the National Post was founded and trying to inflate its numbers.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    11/22/09

    In reply to Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
    I went to UNLV right at the ending cusp of LV's glory days (More classic hotels on the Strip than douchebag attractors, Tarkanian was still coaching, slots still dropped coins etc) and even in 1993, with under a million residents, LV still was a two-newspaper town.

    In fact I still have my mint-condition copies of the LV Sun's farewell to the Dunes Hotel special issue .. though, little did the Sun know they were about to implode themselves :[] .. good times though.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/23/09

    @lobstr: I forgot! Yes! You're a UNLV grad. For the record, the Sun's still alive, it's just a fold-out in the RJ, now. A 20something year-old reporter at the Sun won the Pulitzer earlier this year for Public Service reporting on construction project deaths. Must've chapped some old asses at the RJ fairly well.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    11/22/09

    In reply to Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
    I would like a paper machete hat, please.

    And then, look the hell out.
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    Image of Glib and Bitchy Glib and Bitchy
    11/22/09

    @skahammer: Ouch. Paper cut!
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    Image of Sergio Hernandez Sergio Hernandez
    11/22/09

    @skahammer: Ha, beat me to it.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/22/09

    In reply to Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
    If the internet had been set up originally on a per-fee basis, maybe there wouldn't be resistance to the idea of internet-only news. "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" comes to mind.

    I was hoping for the death of print media if only to save the forests.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    11/22/09

    @Lysergic Asset: It is necessary to burn the forests in order to save them.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/22/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Compuserve, payable by the minute. Something called The Source offered all sorts of university (East Mississippi Barbers', I think) research opportunity at $7 per minute. Other deep resources offered a cover charge to the Inner Sanctum. This was connectivity in the late 80s, when I started. Even the local "tree board," the BBS which organized chatter so it went on forever like an organization chart, began charging.

    Then somebody said, hey, everybody's still listening to radio and watching teevee. What's their business plan again?
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/22/09

    @Tremonius: Damned if they do, fucked if they don't... I wonder who's turning a profit on web news.

    #tips
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    Image of Joe Mitchell's Secret Joe Mitchell's Secret
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
    What amazes me; not one sentence about the writing. Snappy? Ponderous? Meh?
    @Zirinsky
    Congrats, you get the blue-ribbon today.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
    So, do you think Gawker is a better website now than it was the day it launched?
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
    Well, in the old days before child labor laws, urchins were their distribution system, so maybe it's 2 steps forward, 3 back
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    Image of Volsciana Volsciana
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Vice Guide to Creating a Successful Publishing Empire
    How soon until they start producing 'Teen-Vice' complete with interns staring on an MTV reality show
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