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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
A downsizing to ordinary.......
Lets see, the Old Gray Whore, madam to the New York presstitutes is closing a press and reducing the size of the paper from 54” to 48 “ , I presume that is the roll and the width makes two 23 inch high sheets. That is the size of many smaller papers……. As in small towns, as in fly over country papers. That is something of a come down for the madam who sets the tone for the whole liberal world. She has become careworn and sighhh ORDINARY.
Doing the math, 54-48= 6” and 6/54 x 100=11 % . The OGW is going to need 11% less content. The pundits there are discussing reducing or perhaps squeezing content. The reduction has already taken place. No Squeezing is required.One interesting fact is the reduction in adds. Assuming a 1:1 ratio between the add revenue and columnar space, the reduction correlates well with recent catastrophic declines in ad sales.
The cost problem remains however because there is also a big increase in the cost of the paper. The reduction might cover one of the two, but certainly can’t make up for it all.
That brings up the poor Jersey types who got fired. They are the printers of the blank add space. No ads, no need for paper, no need for printers. Imagine the horror of it all…… I am not required any more because Macy’s quit advertising face cream. I was a nothing, a face cream flack.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
The news papers have bad bad problems.......
Writing a blog is not difficult. Writing a decent blog requires time and thought.
Recent events have conspired to make the time required to put down some thoughts hard to come by.
Recent events in the newspaper industry indicate that they are having a hard time coping with the realities of the present. They are not dead, but they are severely wounded.
The following is a listing of articles describing the decline and serious problem.
Pittsburg Post gazette and Toledo Blade
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1573105/posts
Chicago Sun Times
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544906/posts
Boston Globe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1488509/posts?page=17
General decline multiple papers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521252/posts
Dallas Morning News
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1389100/posts
Knight Ridder Papers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521692/posts
Knight Ridder
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568879/posts
LA Times
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1523709/posts
Media Layoffs comprehensive list and discussion
http://www.iwantmedia.com/layoffs.html
New York Times
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505285/posts
Orlando Sentinel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1531111/posts?page=1
NY Times downgraded by S&P
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1489164/posts
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538335/posts
Chicago Tribune
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561172/posts
Categories: Boston Globe, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, Knight Ridder, media bias, New York Times, Orlando Sentinel, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, San Francisco Chronicle, Toledo Blade, Washington Post
Sunday, September 25, 2005
A failing NYT flails around the truth again
This week it was reported that the New York Times fired 500 staffers following a similar blood bath in May. The New York paper that was formerly known as the Gray Lady but is now commonly referred to as The Old Gray Whore (bordello of the NY Presstitutes) has apparently fallen on hard times in the midst of what in most of America is an economic boom. With low unemployment in much of the country, finding new jobs should not be a real problem.
The impact of the event was largely ignored by an MSM that was on a witch hunt and out gathering post Katrina faggots for the President's bonfire execution. The news was however analyzed by some great observers of the press. A discussion on Free Republic.com concluded that declining ad revenue resulting from declining circulation was the cause. The decline is considered to be the result of a demographic change where the old readers are dying off and the mature young population doesn't read newspapers and thus can't respond to advertiser messages.
Once again the OGW admits to a lying staff. Newsmax reports "New York Times public editor Byron Calame said Alessandra Stanley's Sept. 5 report claiming that the Fox News Channel's Geraldo Rivera "nudged" an Air Force relief worker out of the way so he could film himself rescuing a Katrina victim had been made up out of whole cloth."
Alessandra Stanley's problem is one of status. As a card carrying presstitute writing for the OGW, she doesn't understand what happens on the outside of her Ivory Tower.
Such things as being near or on a real helicopter, actually seeing and smelling the event and touching the persons involved is far from her concept of reality. When reality fails to register, her jelousy towards the unwashed reporters in the field takes hold and her mind compensates with fiction.
Louisiana is out there somewhere in flyover country and matters not to the real Americans residing in the City.
A link to the Black Tuesday article and the blood letting is here
A link to the admission of further lies is here
and a link to the excellant discussion is here