Sunday, June 21, 2009

More than 10,000 newspaper jobs lost in 2009 (updated)

Erica Smith is tracking the number of newspaper jobs lost. According to her records, more than 10,000 jobs have been lost so far this year.

Update: this comment cracked me up.
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24 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gosh, could it be that darn economy Melanie Sill keeps anonymously blogging about?

Or is it that just today the NY Times, Bill Keller insisted that their shill in the White House,
”he’s getting examined pretty microscopically.” (by the times?)

Ya know, maybe they are both right? Excuse me while I check to see if monkeys are flying out of my butt!

Anonymous said...

Sounds like Keller stopped reading his profoundly biased product a long, long time ago.

Wasn't it almost yesterday that the NYT Finally Admits It Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story

So, "he’s getting examined pretty microscopically.”

Excuse me, I need to puke

Anonymous said...

Only 10,000 jobs so far in 2009?

I saw an Arizona People’s Republic newspaper the other day. They are almost as big as a comic book now.

This is what happens when you shove your Socialist propaganda down people’s throats and ask them to pay for it.

Anonymous said...

Getting Tough: Sign of Things to Come?

CBS lawsuit over failure to pay bills may be precursor as stations struggle (Broadcasting & Cable, 6/22/2009)

In what could be the first of more such lawsuits to come in the syndication world, CBS Television Distribution last week filed suit against Global Broadcasting, owner of WLNE Providence, alleging that it failed to pay license fees on CTD-distributed shows Dr. Phil, Inside Edition, Rachael Ray, The Insider and Entertainment Tonight.

The suit comes at a time when TV station groups are facing some of the biggest financial challenges of the industry's 70-plus-year history.

Several station groups and their parent companies—including Tribune, Ion, Young, Granite, Equity and Pappas—have declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and are now reorganizing their debt, selling off assets or going out of business entirely.

Anonymous said...

Like keller, the two prerequisites for being a leftist: hypocrisy and utter shamelessness.

Anonymous said...

Have a heart will you.

These guys have no useful skills and will not be able to get a job anywhere when the news jobs dry up.

You know they don’t have the brains to do anything else besides the BS crap they do now.

Would you want one of these people flipping your burger or washing your car?

I hope they all get high level positions with Obama so they can feed their families.

Anonymous said...

The problem with today's journalists is that the newsroom environment is really no different than the environment they were in during college and taking their first lower division journalism class.

No real world experience. No diversity (love that word) of opinion. No one to challenge their allegiance to the left wing dogma.

Simply put, they never grew up. They never matured beyond their sophomore mentality.

In the real world, the makers of buggy whips or CRT screens had some ability to adapt and more on. This is not going to be the case with the left overs in the newsroom who still think they know everything about everything.

Sad.

Anonymous said...

More than 10,000 newspaper jobs lost in 2009
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That is a good start. We just to get rid of the rest of them so that new forms of news distribution can rise up and fill the void.

Only by allowing these obsolete newspapers die will we be able to provide a new opportunity for news distribution to be born.

The sooner the better. Let's get on with it.

Anonymous said...

Why won't the Obamababoon bail them out?

Besides, who needs a job anyways? The Obamababoon is President . . . for now.

Anonymous said...

Anon 5:10 Fascinating observation.

Quite frankly, I never thought of it that way. Definitely food for thought. Thank you!

Anonymous said...

Don't any of you ever get tired of cutting and pasting the tired old right-wing dogma demonizing the press?

Anonymous said...

These guys have no useful skills and will not be able to get a job anywhere when the news jobs dry up.
June 21, 2009 4:56 PM

@ 4:56 - please post at Ace of Spades whenever you spot a former reporter who has become a hobo.

Anonymous said...

Without the professional legacy media with their award winning journalists and their 200 layers of editors, how will we get the fast-paced reporting and expert analysis whenever Bo takes a dump in Michelle's garden?

John Altevogt said...

7:09 You can always elevate the level of discourse on here by posting something witty, intelligent, logical and interesting to read. Well, you probably can't, but I'm sure some of the critics of this site could and you might find that it would things more interesting and less dogmatic. I'm not holding my breath because the whiners around here don't want this site to be interesting. They're here to trash the place like they've trashed their newspapers and made them dull and uninteresting to read.

Anonymous said...

Anon 7:18 LMAO

Anonymous said...

Without the professional legacy media with their award winning journalists and their 200 layers of editors, how will we get the fast-paced reporting and expert analysis whenever Bo takes a dump in Michelle's garden?
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LOL. Or what type of custard Obama got next Sunday while the Obama Depression deepens, gas price skyrocketing, North Korea and Iran getting nukes, Bin Laden still free, etc.

Great journalism there!

Anonymous said...

@ 4:56 - please post at Ace of Spades whenever you spot a former reporter who has become a hobo.




Would you settle for 3 pedophiles, 7 Taliban converts, 2 rapists and 2 murders, 54 Mud Hens, and a pickled syndicated columnist driving a three wheeled getaway vehicle?

Anonymous said...

Is Gannett Considering 4,500 in Layoffs on July 8?

Gannett will not answer the question. Using the old ADN precedent, Gannett should answer the rumor to our satisfaction Right Now! Put those dumpster-divers on notice, at a reduced salary of course.

Anonymous said...

Oh noz! No more newspapers! Who would inform me of the great tragedy of a double-transgendered government worker suffering with just a 2.5% raise in a recession while righteously struggling for social justice as an assistant associate supervisorial manager working through the State Agency of Regulatory Oversight of Arugula Toxic Emissions Standards (to protect the children)? Such stories -- usually written by women with names like Leticia Washington-Weizenheimer who have a degree in advocacy-journalism, a minor in women's or ethnic studies, and who sport an entire house full of perhaps two books (at least one of which is an unread Obama autobiography) -- yes indeed, these stories are absolutely central to the maintenance of an informed public.

Then again, perhaps people with degrees in journalism really are the dumbest people on campus, and the troubles of newspapers are just a reflection of an industry overrun with people who aintz too smart but who think they are because their names appear in print.

This is what happens when merit is ignored and your talent pool consists of university clones of questionable intelligence. Reporters are hired first based upon race and gender, and promoted based upon politics ....

Anonymous said...

9:08, you're an idiot, and I think you know it. You need to get a life.

Anonymous said...

12:25 he flushed you out of the bathhouse didn't he troll?

Anonymous said...

How come those idiots in corporate still have their jobs ?

Anonymous said...

"Without the professional legacy media with their award winning journalists and their 200 layers of editors, how will we get the fast-paced reporting and expert analysis whenever Bo takes a dump in Michelle's garden?"

Such actions by Bo have blocked by Google Earth for national security reasons, just like Blair House when Cheney was veep.

Anonymous said...

Mc Clatchy people @ the Star-Telegram more bad news coming the 30th.