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Friday, March 13, 2009
Friday, March 13 -- Got news or a question?
If you have news or a question, leave it in comments. . .
43 comments:
Anonymous
said...
What more can be said after the week we had in Fort Worth. Great people lost, a publisher that goes on TV and says we will be around for 100 more years, etc..........
Wartel is clueless. The FWST is sinking fast and for no reason. Post all the stories you want on facebook on how the end is not near. Look were we were a year ago and look now. It hurts but its true. I'll continue to come to work and work hard, but it's not easy.
The S-T has been sinking ever since "Hatchet Man" Wortel came on the scene 1 year ago. No coincidence. So many reporters took buyouts this time that they saved the jobs of 3 line editors who are now editors/reporters. Thankfully, Wortel won't be here 100 years from now.
It will be interesting to see how bad the ST will be now that every single decent reporter/editor is gone. Truly, there is no one left that is worth a damn...wow.
It's friday - either you slept too late or started to drink too early. Either way your nuts and I agree with above. Laying off 1600 people at one - but they care if you wear a black t-shirt. Get real - looser.
Why are you always so abrasive and have to resort to calling people names? You're kind of a strange bird. That is your first response to anything you don't agree with. Is that just your nature or is it a matter of no other way to express yourself?
As a former Charlotte Observer employee with many friends still there I think it's a disgrace the way they've handled the whole layoff debacle. I took a buyout package last June and worked with HR people who had been there less than a year and was dismissed with such disregard it was shameful - and I was there almost 20 years! McClatchy doesn't deserve the talent pool it has and can blame themselves when they are forced to shut the doors for good.
There is no humor in this situation the ax will fall at the Kansas City Star Monday and the floors will be covered in blood. There is nothing funny about 150 (1600 in all)people losing their jobs, many have given the company many years of their lives and they can't even be discharged with dignity.
Wouldn't that be a hoot if the local TV stations camped the Star's front door come Monday. I bet you could get some real juicy interviews on the way out.
What meeting in Lexington? With the guild? What is that one about anyways - I hadn't heard about it till on here today. I think it will be week after next before the big announcement in Lex.
--Wouldn't that be a hoot if the local TV stations camped the Star's front door come Monday--
Why not? It's where the TV stations steal every third story from. Count how many times during a newscast Fox 4 anchors preface a story by saying "The Kansas City Star reports that". It's out and out plagiarism to me.
Why not? It's where the TV stations steal every third story from.
You should really be saying, "Why not, there is no way in hell the Star will be covering it."
We will see. It has already been submitted. There is even talk of hiring one layoff victim on the spot. Good luck to all. Remember you must interview to be considered.
This is what you get when there is too much 'monopoly' on news. I remember there were roughly 200 company's that owned the majority of media in 2000 and now it's down to like "5".
Why is it always the hard-working, competent people that get axed and the worthless wastes-of-space get to stay, and some even get a raise? Beats all I've ever seen
12:27 Remember, there is humor in all things. As the outdoor editor at the Anchorage Daily News keeps repeating to everyone here, "Life's a f---ing joke, and then you die. So you might as well laugh your way through it." And if you work for McClatchy anywhere, can things get to be more of a joke than they are now? The only way to save the product is to destroy the product!
Forgive me for asking such a dumb question, but here goes: McClatchy bought Knight-Ridder and took on a huge debt. The nation is in a recession and McClatchy can't pay its bills and no one is buying any of the papers they offered for sale. So to rectify their mistake in buying KR, are they letting some papers basically spiral out of control and eventually close? Once those papers are gone and people are out of a job, can McClatchy "turn back the clock" so to speak? Go back to being a smaller newspaper, owned by a family, with just a few papers? Is that what the McClatchy family wants?
The McClatchy family thought they had a coveted position in the Media Monopoly Cartel. I believe that they thought they had time to pay down the massive debt and survive owning a large number of major sized papers. At this point, I am pretty sure they would give anything just to get out of the business all together, without losing their shorts and becoming common people.
Unfortunately for them the gig is up. They can't pay off the debt as a large conglomerate, much less a small one.
Every last one of the proletariat deserve to have their juicy bank accounts drained and be forced into life on the meager penance they expect us to live on. I'd almost pay to watch Pruitt squirm trying to figure out how to live on less than 30K a year with, "at least you still have a job..." as the only bonus to look forward to.
Scum lords. Seriously. Every last one of em'.
Maybe we could get a grant to do a psychological case study on the decline caused by over a month's worth of layoff threats.
Morale can't possibly get any lower! Many of us have reached the point where unemployment will be a RAISE!
43 comments:
What more can be said after the week we had in Fort Worth. Great people lost, a publisher that goes on TV and says we will be around for 100 more years, etc..........
Wartel is clueless. The FWST is sinking fast and for no reason. Post all the stories you want on facebook on how the end is not near. Look were we were a year ago and look now. It hurts but its true. I'll continue to come to work and work hard, but it's not easy.
Hey Fort Worth - I've been gone since last year - how is OOPS-NITT-WITT doing?
It is amazing how much different the Star-T is in less than a year! Think back to last spring break and how many people were in the newsroom...
The S-T has been sinking ever since "Hatchet Man" Wortel came on the scene 1 year ago. No coincidence. So many reporters took buyouts this time that they saved the jobs of 3 line editors who are now editors/reporters. Thankfully, Wortel won't be here 100 years from now.
Any idea when Kansas City Star employees will find out their fate?
Any word on Charlotte,NC and N&O in Raleigh,NC?
@ 7:21 - FWIW the rumor mill at KC Star says Monday.
It will be interesting to see how bad the ST will be now that every single decent reporter/editor is gone. Truly, there is no one left that is worth a damn...wow.
7:28 Well another sleepless weekend. Thanks for the info
Any word on how Advertising Reps are faring in the layoffs? I know no one is immune, but I haven't read much about hits to Sales Reps.
I'm in the NW waiting with baited breath and directions to the unemployment office ( if they will be needed).
Hearing that sports and photo took the biggest hits. Can't have much more there left.
Anon:7:28
For what it is worth, here is a recent TV story about the N&O.
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6707044
@ 7:21 - FWIW the rumor mill at KC Star says Monday.
All employees should wear BLACK
next monday.
Just a thought.
9:37 AM
And that will accomplish what?
All the execs are too busy living it up in Vegas at NAA to cut the little folks this week.
9:51 AM
100% agree. Put your energy to something that counts. Do you think 1 person from management will even notice or care?
Do you think 1 person from management will even notice or care?
Yes actually they would. Any sign of unity or organized activity scares the hell out of them.
11:04 AM
It's friday - either you slept too late or started to drink too early. Either way your nuts and I agree with above. Laying off 1600 people at one - but they care if you wear a black t-shirt. Get real - looser.
11:27 AM
Why are you always so abrasive and have to resort to calling people names? You're kind of a strange bird. That is your first response to anything you don't agree with. Is that just your nature or is it a matter of no other way to express yourself?
@7:47 *cough*troll*cough*
11:37 AM
Chill out, I think they meant it as humor.
As a former Charlotte Observer employee with many friends still there I think it's a disgrace the way they've handled the whole layoff debacle. I took a buyout package last June and worked with HR people who had been there less than a year and was dismissed with such disregard it was shameful - and I was there almost 20 years! McClatchy doesn't deserve the talent pool it has and can blame themselves when they are forced to shut the doors for good.
There is no humor in this situation the ax will fall at the Kansas City Star Monday and the floors will be covered in blood. There is nothing funny about 150 (1600 in all)people losing their jobs, many have given the company many years of their lives and they can't even be discharged with dignity.
next round of pain will be net quarter
Wouldn't that be a hoot if the local TV stations camped the Star's front door come Monday. I bet you could get some real juicy interviews on the way out.
What about the Sun Herald in Biloxi? Any news at all?
Meetings at Lexington put off till Monday.
What meeting in Lexington? With the guild? What is that one about anyways - I hadn't heard about it till on here today. I think it will be week after next before the big announcement in Lex.
Hey, 1:30.
Go f yourself
I meant 1:38 to go you know
--Wouldn't that be a hoot if the local TV stations camped the Star's front door come Monday--
Why not? It's where the TV stations steal every third story from. Count how many times during a newscast Fox 4 anchors preface a story by saying "The Kansas City Star reports that". It's out and out plagiarism to me.
Why not? It's where the TV stations steal every third story from.
You should really be saying, "Why not, there is no way in hell the Star will be covering it."
We will see. It has already been submitted. There is even talk of hiring one layoff victim on the spot. Good luck to all. Remember you must interview to be considered.
It's out and out plagiarism to me.
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1. the verbatim copying or imitation of the language, ideas, or thoughts of another author and representing them as one’s own original work.
It's cool though. No one expects someone from Columbia or the Scar to understand the meaning of the term.
This is what you get when there is
too much 'monopoly' on news.
I remember there were roughly
200 company's that owned the majority of media in 2000 and now
it's down to like "5".
Is there any wonder?
Why is it always the hard-working, competent people that get axed and the worthless wastes-of-space get to stay, and some even get a raise? Beats all I've ever seen
12:26 says it all
Did Facebook get redesigned by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram? Both are similar - USELESS AND NOT NEEDED. IT WAS FINE THE WAY IT WAS.
Ricks Cabaret in Houston is worth almost twice as much as A.H. Belo - the debt free owner of the Dallas Morning News and 3 other papers.
The market values a chain of strip clubs to be worth twice as much as the Dallas Morning News...
Really?
12:27 Remember, there is humor in all things. As the outdoor editor at the Anchorage Daily News keeps repeating to everyone here, "Life's a f---ing joke, and then you die. So you might as well laugh your way through it." And if you work for McClatchy anywhere, can things get to be more of a joke than they are now? The only way to save the product is to destroy the product!
Forgive me for asking such a dumb question, but here goes: McClatchy bought Knight-Ridder and took on a huge debt. The nation is in a recession and McClatchy can't pay its bills and no one is buying any of the papers they offered for sale. So to rectify their mistake in buying KR, are they letting some papers basically spiral out of control and eventually close? Once those papers are gone and people are out of a job, can McClatchy "turn back the clock" so to speak? Go back to being a smaller newspaper, owned by a family, with just a few papers? Is that what the McClatchy family wants?
The McClatchy family thought they had a coveted position in the Media Monopoly Cartel. I believe that they thought they had time to pay down the massive debt and survive owning a large number of major sized papers. At this point, I am pretty sure they would give anything just to get out of the business all together, without losing their shorts and becoming common people.
Unfortunately for them the gig is up. They can't pay off the debt as a large conglomerate, much less a small one.
Every last one of the proletariat deserve to have their juicy bank accounts drained and be forced into life on the meager penance they expect us to live on. I'd almost pay to watch Pruitt squirm trying to figure out how to live on less than 30K a year with, "at least you still have a job..." as the only bonus to look forward to.
Scum lords. Seriously. Every last one of em'.
Maybe we could get a grant to do a psychological case study on the decline caused by over a month's worth of layoff threats.
Morale can't possibly get any lower! Many of us have reached the point where unemployment will be a RAISE!
Hey, 2:19. Appreciate the sentiment but "proletariat" means the working class. As in the guy who wrote this lyric:
I don't want your millions, mister
I don't want your diamond ring
All I want is the right to live, mister
Give to me my job again
By the way, the posting that our peerless leader in FW was going to resign Friday seems to have been wishful thinking after all. Sigh.
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