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Jim why don't you add a countdown to the board meeting clock?
ReplyDeleteHow's the 'puter issues going Jim? Apple able to ix the problems?
ReplyDeleteHow to get your pension check? The company that administers the Gannett pension fund is Northern Trust in Chicago. I called them and had my check in several days.
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Great idea. Sry. It will just be hype. The board isn't going to do anything out of sorts. Yeah, they "might" lower the dividend (what rational person wouldn't) but it isn't going to be a show-stopper. Gannett -- and most other newspaper companies -- are conservative in nature. They are not going to do something overly crazy until it is too late. I've dealt with boards in the past; most of you have, too. We know how they operate.
ReplyDeletePerhaps this is slightly self-defeating and negative, but I want to see this company sink. It will give me peace. I tried to make it move in new directions (like Craig said we should), but I got punished for being successful at doing that: they laid me off to save the failing newsprint product despiite the face that my products were making them money and saving their worn-out newsprint. Where is Craig now? I drank his cool aid but he didn't drink mine. This just isn't fair. I got punished for making him money; he gets unequivocal support from his board and a golden parachute "if they have to retire him." I get a year of unemployment to make something of myself. Can't wait to watch this once mighty company sink.
Companies are only worth what they are good at.
ReplyDeleteGannett needs to remember that.
Snarky attacks aside, Gannett newspapers, flawed as they have always been, have been symbols of community and neighborhood.
With the Web, cable, USA TODAY and the rest, local newspaper readers don't really need a national or world report anymore. They do need to know if their city councilman is a crook, if there will be school funding available, if their town water is safe to drink.
Metromixing and mom flexing is all fine. But a company is worth what it does best. We need to find new ways to grow -- not by showing Page Three girls on the web -- but by taking back the thing we used to know how to do. report on our own communities.
The readers can crowdsource, motorists can post pictures, whatever. But nothing is worth more than a reporter with a notebook at the twon hall. Digging for the truth.
What Gannett and newspapers used to do best.
But now, everything is upside down. In all my years with Gannett -- and there have been many -- and all the criticisms about corporate groupthink and control, in truth it was rare that Gannett ever interfered in what papers actually covered.
Think what you will of Phil Currie's mantras and news gathering tips and contests, it could usually be brushed aside as a necessary annoyance. It didn't REALLY slow things down, fun as it was to gripe about News 2000 and the rest.
No, Gannett left most newsrooms alone when it came to content.
But for the first time ever, in the last two years, that really HAS changed. Get rid of business sections; fold your communities together; let parents cover their kids' sports.
These aren't local choices. These really ARE coming down from on high.
It is shortsighted and saves pennies when wall Street wants millions.
Cover the community right -- on paper, online, whatever. But cover it. It's what Gannett used to do, and we made a tidy profit.
Wall Street is abandoning newspapers -- and news -- because WE are. We look panicked and stricken and very very afraid.
Let's stand up and look Wall Street in the eye and ask them what they're doing with all the money they just got.
We deal in information. It is a powerful product. Stop hiding what we do.
I don't blame Dubow or any of those people for the stock collapsing. I DO blame them for never -- not once! -- in the last couple of dreadful years ever mentioning journalism, being a watchdog, or ever standing up for what the company is actually all about.
They don't mention journalism and those things because they don't know what they are all about. They don't believe in them.
Why should anybody else?
Journal Register has filed for bankruptcy.
ReplyDeleteTo 2/21/2009 9:37 AM you are a real hopeless loser. You are also not very good in observation. My blogger name is prefixed by the orange google blogger icon... something you cannot copy! Because I have it and you don't! I also have something else you don't have... honor! Sorry Jim, looks like we have another repeat of last fall... copy cat handles who insult people. From here on I will ignore this person and hopeful others on this blog will see the difference in his/hers post and mine. Very different like night & day, I being the non-insulting poster.
ReplyDeleteBravo and here, here, 11:59. We need to get back to real local news reporting, and not just police blotter trash.
ReplyDelete10:55 pm: Unfortunately, Mr. MacBook is going to have to spend several days at the Apple Infirmary. I was so dazed by the early onset of separation anxiety, that I didn't catch all of the diagnosis. (But hey, it's still under warranty!)
ReplyDeleteYet another huge blunder for badly managed Westchester Journal News.
ReplyDeleteChimpanzee mauling — now a world-wide story — occurred 2 miles over the Westchester border in Stamford, Conn., yet Journal News' 15 news editors did not see fit to send a reporter/photographer and ran a wire story day after on A8.
Just amazing.
Plays with crayons get a life or just change your name I am sick and tired of your dramatic crying...............get a life...........just change your name and fool the fool imatateing you!
ReplyDeleteWhy does it seem to me like a fairy dramatic broadway show with "Plays with Crayons" who cares who has the name?!@!!!! Am I or everyone living in "San Fransisco"? Someone stole your identity............so what move on chump!! better than your credit cards..........change your name.........you still have a job?
ReplyDeleteOne thing I haven't seen in the newspappers is the Coverage of investigative reporting of who is at fault of this major dilema we are having !!!!!!!! When are we going to overturn the rocks and show the unquenchable greed of wallstreet individual people and also the hidden bank account of 52,000 people in the "UBS" switzertland bank accounts in the USA that the "rich People" think they don' have to pay taxes!!!!!!??? Where are the reporters when we need them to unveil the crooks that led us into this catostrophe? Please someone turn the rocks over and show us why the thieves have taken us for another underegulatory ride and lifted our wallets and now we the common tax payer must pay for the elite who have tax havens oofshore or in the "USB" in the switzerland bank who pay no taxes!!!!!!!! Filthy greed reagonomics and trickle down will be looked down in history...................say amen to the brethern you have put on the streets and are looking on unemployment!!!!!!!! Barack is'nt the answer but he isn't the problem and ignoring it either like the rich elite! Yes this is relevant to the newspapers going down you dumbass staunch reagonites!!!
ReplyDeleteFrom S.O.S. Save Our Company thread.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
8:10. AXA & Brandes HAD lots of money at stake.....not much of it is left.
There is not much time left for this (and many other) company. The cascading collapse of eastern european economies is about to cause a balance of payments/banking crisis in Western Europe which will the initiate the 2nd Wave of the global financial crisis and swallow up the trillions of dollars of U.S. bank bailouts.
My point is, Gannett is a very small boat on a big ocean in the middle of a horrific hurricane. It -and unfortunately we- will suffer the same fate (economically) as the Adrea Gail in the movie The Perfect Storm.
Make plans people...make plans. Good Luck.
Check out the article about Newly Poor in the New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2009/20/20/nyregion/20food.html
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Someone posted yesterday that we should help each other on this blog. I agree. We have to share information & links on subjects related to: SAVING MONEY; BUDGETING; ADAPTING to Long-Term Un/Under-Employment; RECONFIGURING CAREER PATHS; and building sustainable economically & spiritually fulfilling lives for ourselves and our Family's - whether or not we are employed by GANNETT.
Plan for the worst possible case scenerio and everything that happens will actually make you fell better. If the worst does happen, at least you won't be blindsided.
Green beta:
ReplyDeletehttp://allgreentome.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage
Let's Say something POSITIVE today!!!
ReplyDeleteTo "plays with crayons" with the orange Google blog sticker. Who cares that you have Google's orange identifier, are you proud of that? Is that all you have to show for yourself?
ReplyDeleteYou must be special. I am the offical "plays with crayons" WITHOUT the orange Google blog identifier.
You see, idiot, on the web, you have no identity even if you try to create one. So you can be one type of "play with crayons" and I will be another flavor!
I think this blog is full of rejects like yourself. You have the education of a child the "plays with crayons".
Jim,
I am surprised you would allow this person to be part of the gannettblog community.
We need more intellectuals to contribute. This blog is so negative toward our leader and other executives it is sad.
Marc Andreesen says newspapers are over and they should just stop printing. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3628271656800759125&hl=en
ReplyDeleteJim - I know you have the iPhone, but if you don't have at least one other Mac in storage that you can whip out at a moments notice, you're still an Apple neophyte. I still can use my 7600 in a pinch... once I blow the dust off of it.... :)
ReplyDeleteTry that with any 1996 PC!
Idea to save our business: Micro payments. You pay $10 over your bill for your ISP and that money is distributed to the sites you use. It may be half a penny a month to each site, but that amount from millions of readers would be enough to begin to cover online expenses. Advertising online is not a pay model that will support news gathering and reporting -- a product in no less demand today than at any other point in our democracy.
ReplyDeleteWord verification: Wiess.
7:44 am: This is my first and only Mac; my only other computers are my disassembled 2003 Dell desktop and Sparky's newer but still-scary Dell laptop.
ReplyDeleteHow to get your pension check? The company that administers the Gannett pension fund is Northern Trust in Chicago. I called them and had my check in several days.
ReplyDelete312-557-9700
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Can you please elaborate 10:59 PM?
You want something positive?
ReplyDeleteI thank God every single day for my wife, my daughter and the fact I don't work for GCI any longer.
Seven years was seven too many.
I got my 401k, my pension, my severance and I'm free at last.
Good luck to all current and former Gannett employees.
Life is so good...without GCI.
My daughter is 1 yrs old and she "PLAYS WITH CRAYONS" doesn't that tell you something???
ReplyDeleteI've just spent the past 30 minutes on my iPhone, surfing the Web and reading Gannett S.E.C. documents, as I continue research into the upcoming board of directors meeting on the dividend.
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ReplyDelete2/22/2009 9:45 AM: What are you saying? I'm not the juvenile one of the two with this name, I choose this name for one simple fact: I happen to be a production artist at a Gannett newspaper. That's all. Simple as that. :)
ReplyDeleteCNN website this am..another kid leaves for school in the morning and never makes it to school.
ReplyDeleteI am soo sick of reading this crap. Our troops should all be recalled and deployed to our streets.
Any pervert that tries to grab a get gets terminated on the spot.
People think the company is fucked, not one of you seem to care that the country is fucked.
To the poster who said he/she hopes Gannett sinks because it will give him/her "closure," I could not agree more.
ReplyDeleteI also loathe and despise this company for ruining my career, as it has so many journalists at the hands of incompentent, petty publishers. So yes, I wish nothing but disaster for this company. My hatred is permanent and I guess crippling, but that is what happens when you are a victim of this miserable company.
To the poster who wonders why there isn't any investigative reporter out there doing a story on why "this happened" to Gannett or the newspaper industry ...
The reason is as obvious as the answer - it has happened for no good reason... just typical corporate over-reaction to the economy.
The answer is that al these layoffs, all these furloughs and cutbacks are COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY!
This is all about maintaining an artifical profit margin that is unreasonable in this economy. In other words, insane people are in charge... and the worst kind of all - stupid, greedy insane people.
That is why we are in this mess.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003943439
ReplyDeleteWasn't January the debut of ContentOne, and wasn't there a plan that views would be significantly increased?
Our daily New Jersey gem comes from Paul Franklin, HNT/C-N sportswriter and columnist.
ReplyDeleteDavid Ortiz should be the next commissioner of baseball. "Big Papi" last week said that the current 50-game suspension for testive positive on drugs is essentially a joke. He's right. ...
And if someone fails?
"Ban 'em for the whole year," he said.
Guess what, Paul? Ortiz has had dealings with Alex Rodriguez' trainer -- and your sports section has worked hard to suppress the A-Rod/steroids story.
Yes, 10:58am, tell more. I called the number and it sounds like the real deal. So during Monday business hours I'll see how it goes.
ReplyDeleteWhoops. Meant 10:58pm.
ReplyDeleteIn case you missed 7:41's post.
ReplyDeleteMarc Andreesen says newspapers are over and they should just stop printing. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3628271656800759125&hl=en
Take an hour and watch this. It could change your life or save your career. Amazing stuff.
The Journal News in Wetchester couldn't cover the big Chimpanzee mauling story because there aren't any managers left that know what news is or how to cover it. Most of the good people left the building, some of them ran, some were forced out. There are a few good solid journalist left but there is only some much they can do when they are surrounded by the clueless management and their long following of ass kissers trying to save their own jobs.
ReplyDeleteAnon 6:10 am:
ReplyDeleteRe: http://allgreentome.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage
Is that a Wilmington-specific project, or are they rolling it out through all of Gannett's properties ala Metromix?
/tO 11:08 A.m. who wrote: I wish nothing but disaster for this company. My hatred is permanent and I guess crippling, but that is what happens when you are a victim of this miserable company."
ReplyDeleteWhy are you doing this to yourself? Feeling miserable and carrying "permanent" hatred toward a company that probably doesn't even know who you are won't help you in any way. It also won't hurt the company.
Instead of dwelling on your disappointment, consider living in the here and now a bit more. You're alive. You likely have people who love you. Do you see a benefit in focusing on your blessings instead of being so wrapped up in the hard knocks you've just experienced and blaming the company for clobbering your career?
The present is all we are guaranteed in life, and in my humble opinion, you are wasting it.
How about a new rule?
ReplyDeleteEveryone who says "say something positive" must actually say something concrete that IS positive or practical and helpful.
I think it says more that people are pleading for someone else to say positive things. If you want cheerleading, start the cheering yourself.
10:59, I agree! I love what I do, and what I do is community journalism. It is our niche, and I can assure you that, though it a hike in property tax or a new school being needed might be small potatoes on the national scale, it is big in our community. It is news people want and need and is what they talk about at church and at soccer games. If Gannett can't realize the importance of community news, then its days of profitability are numbered.
ReplyDeleteThe Sunday edition of every Gannett newspaper came out this morning with significant news on Page One.
ReplyDeleteMore than 80 percent of the Gannett employees who were working in December 2007 are still employed today.
Gannett employees' paychecks don't bounce.
Gannett pension checks arrive on time.
Gannett benefits pay according to contract. Yes, medical insurance costs more than when I joined the company, but I can go to the doctor and the card is accepted and the copay is as promised.
All in all, Gannett employees have it better than people working in banking, auto manufacture and housing in these difficult economic times.
It is time for us to quit measuring our worth by Wall Street and return to judging ourselves as how well we serve our communities. And I don't think that Gannett employees have ducked from that responsibility for a moment.
YOU ARE SO RIGHT AND I ONLY WISH I STILL HAD MY JOB IN CHERRY HILL.
ReplyDelete11:44,
ReplyDeleteWord in Wilmington is we'll be piloting the ship. The hope is that it'll be branched out like Metromix and the Moms sites to get national advertising back into the fold.
Pankaj Paul (returned from the dead - err, India) is steering the project at the corporate level. So heaven help all environmental reporters! He's a supreme jackass.
Personally, I think Gannett missed the boat by waiting so long to jump into the "green" arena. Nowadays, a mastersite on saving money, frugal living, penny-pinching, how to do work under the table, surviving layoffs, starting your own business on a shoestring, bartering, coupon-clipping and other elements of the New Economy would be far more useful.
12:48 PM-- You are definitely NOT from NJ.... and YOUR medical plan is paying for some drugs we can only get on the street corner here. Writing what you said without being high on weed is virtually impossible!
ReplyDeleteIf you are in management, I apologize for the drug reference. You have simply been pimped off to write this nonsense.
Hotense von Beaverbottom
for the NJ Newspapers
To the person who lost a job in Cherry Hill, it's sad especially because of the large number of useless people they've kept there.
ReplyDeleteThey should bring back Match Game and replace Dumb Donald with Jim Hopkins.
ReplyDelete"Jim Hopkins is so dumb ..."
"How dumb is he?"
"Jim Hopkins is so dumb that when the waiter asked how he liked his meat, he said (blank)."
TO Hotense von Beaverbottom
ReplyDeletefor the NJ Newspapers
2/22/2009 1:21 PM
Dear Hotense,
I can see clearly now what the problem is. All the things I posted are true EVERY PLACE EXCEPT NEW JERSEY!
What could I possibly been thinking to include you all in my summation of truth and tolerance, which is the American Way?
In the future, when I post something positive I will use an asterisk and make note that New Jersey, a Third World Country, cannot or will not participate in finding anything good about Gannett.
P.S. I'm not management, not corporate and I still noticed that the sun is shining outside.
11:59 -- Well said. But as someone else who is still employed yet feeling increasing frustration with the way things are going, taking your advice is harder than it seems.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to make a more concerted effort, though, as your reasoning is flawless.
Is everyone in Asbury a fucking asshole? They all seem to think their shit doesn't stink.
ReplyDelete11:59 aka 1:21
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I apologize for getting your time ID wrong in the first posting. Hortense finds it difficult to deal with so many of the Gannette Anonmymousi!
When I first read your little sermon, I thought you might be Dr. Phil....but he is brighter than that.
I know UR really from the APP in NJ, and that is a wonderful thing! You can take your ideas and drop them in the Atlantic Ocean-- which you know is a very short drive. The APP gave as much respect and honesty to Asbury Park when they promised never to move out of town.
Your asterisk idea is super!
All of us in Nj, who are probably your coworkers, hope you do not break your ass descending from the pulpit.
You know, it is really impossible to have an intelligent conversation here because of the immaturity of so many people posting.
ReplyDeletePeople go off-topic all the time at most blogs and message boards, but here it is like kindergarten, people who have never interacted online before.
Really bewildering to have to go through so much nonsense every day. And if one person does say something interesting, it gets lost in stupid "jokes" or angry twaddle.
I have to blame Jim for much of this. Free-flowing conversation is one thing, but step in every so often and try to direct the conversation. 'What about what so-and-so said? Does anyone agree?'
Moments like that might do wonders.
Otherwise, it's a locker room with everyone just yapping.
So, in the middle of an economic meltdown and hiring freeze, corporate hired somebody to help Wilmington with a new web venture?
ReplyDelete2/22/2009 2:40 PM
ReplyDeleteOne day at a time ...
I know it isn't easy, but it is better.
Lack of leadership will be demonstrated by the GCI board if they give/award any of the covered executives any bonus -- stock or cash. They said pay for performance.
ReplyDeleteDoing so would continue to send a message they aren't doing their part in the management of GCI.
3:04 PM
ReplyDeleteI have to wonder what your sugggestion (Jim stepping in) would do to the traffic on this blog. I, for one, would no longer take an interest if that happened.
To me, the beauty of Jim's style rests in his amazing ability to report, then step out of the way so people can react and expand on what was reported. Jim doesn't play the know-it-all role here, and I like that.
Once again, Gannett is missing an opportunity to learn from this blog. (I've read more than one of those where a reporter got into a pissing match with a poster or a reporter completely missed the richness of the conversations going on and broke in with a "question of the day" about something completely unrelated.)
Now, 3:04 PM, if you can direct me to your blog and show me how your moderated methods work (as measured by lots of traffic and plenty of donations), maybe I'll change my mind.
The problem here, and with our community forums, is that when we don't have a topic to motivate us, to drive our passions, we start fires to amuse ourselves. Flame wars, usurping handles, yelling out NJ sucks/rocks.....
ReplyDeleteWe had a hot topic the other day, a school funding referendum was shot down. Over 140 posts when we average 15-20 on important stories. Well thought-out concerns, discussions, options, etc.
On a slow news day, we've had 40 posts on a three sentence story about a teenage girl who swallowed her tongue stud during an interrogation.
There seems to be a base level that blog readers/contributors need to fill each day. If that's a quick pithy comment or a 300 word diatribe, the words will come out.
As Jim points out, ignore abusive posters. Ignore stupid comments, ignore off-topic discussions. If you think that a comment is useless, too negative or too positive - and you have to tell us all that - what have you added to the conversation?
Logging in once a day, I can burn through all the posts and comments I've missed in about five minutes, giving weight to what's well-reasoned, well-written and concise enough to interest me.
There's 300 million blogs out there. If you don't like the atmosphere here.... well, try something else.
Andreesen on Charlie Rose:
ReplyDeleteCharlie Rose:
So to play offense for a newspaper for you means what?
Marc Andreessen:
Oh, you got to kill the print edition.
Charlie Rose:
You would stop the presses tomorrow?
Marc Andreessen:
You have to kill it.
Charlie Rose:
Stop the presses tomorrow.
Marc Andreessen:
You have to kill it.
Charlie Rose:
Stop the presses tomorrow.
Marc Andreessen:
Stop the presses tomorrow. I’ll tell you what. The stocks would go up. Look at what’s happened to the stocks. This investors are through this. The investors are through the transition. You talk to any smart investor who controls any amount of money, he will tell you that the game is up. Like it’s completely over. And so the investors have completely written off the print operations. There is no value in these stock prices attributable to print anymore at all. It’s gone.
Charlie Rose:
So you would recommend to the owners of the New York Times, stop printing papers.
Marc Andreessen:
Yeah, absolutely. You have to. You have to –
Charlie Rose:
And take your losses –
Marc Andreessen:
Yeah. You have to.
Charlie Rose:
Like a courageous person.
Marc Andreessen:
Chronic pain? Acute pain. How many years — music industry, same thing. How many years of chronic pain do you want to take to avoid taking a year of acute pain?
http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/02/21/andreessen-in-realtime/
Forget about Westchester covering news. METROMIX will save the day.
ReplyDelete"Jim Hopkins is so dumb ..."
ReplyDelete"How dumb is he?"
"Jim Hopkins is so dumb that when the cashier asked him: 'Paper or plastic?' he said (blank)."
"Jim Hopkins is so dumb ..."
ReplyDelete"How dumb is he?"
"Jim Hopkins is so dumb that when the dealer asked him if he had ever won money playing poker, he said, 'When I play, I try to get (blank).'"
Yes. Marc Andressen KNOWS failure.
ReplyDeleteAnon 5:30pm & 5:51pm, you wrote about how dumb Jim is and yet, you just can't help but to come back to this site more and more! Guess who is more dumb? Hey dumbo, have you ever heard the saying that it takes one dumb to know another? LOL!!! Thanks for cheering my day up.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.news-press.com/article/20090222/OPINION/902220369/1015
ReplyDeleteInteresting debate going on about a headline that appeared in one of the Florida papers.
@6:10 PM
ReplyDeleteLet's see. Would I rather be on the board of Gannett or the board of Facebook? Hmmmmm....
I agree with 11:59. Make the product better and innovate instead of cut, slash, burn, lay off and gut. Get back to giving people what readers want. All I hear in the community is how small the paper is and how much more is being charged for what little they're getting.
ReplyDelete3:18,
ReplyDeleteI don't think Pankaj Paul is HELPING Wilmington any, considering he didn't do any helping when he was in the office. From my vantage point, the work on the beta site has all come from in-house.
But I think (and this is like fifth-hand info) that his role will be to roll it out across sites, coordinating all that stuff.
'Sides, Corporate seems to be teh perfect place to stash a butt-kissing incompetent manager who alienated everyone who worked for him, went on an lengthy "family sabbatical" and then got a job back home in India that he apparently couldn't hold on to.
I agree. this is a year late and a dollar short. Last year everyone cared about green energy and lifestyle, no everyone cares abou the economy. Once again corporate is behind the eight ball. We tell them to do these things and they ignore us. They lost their following last year and now they decide to roll it out! That is the biggest problem with this company. Smart people make suggestions but it takes an entire year for them to act on it. That is why our stock is worth under $4 a share! Listen ˆit's time to listen to your employees! Belive it or not, we actually know what is going on. We are in the meat of it, you are in the crystal towers in meetings talking about things we already knew last year. LISTEN TO YOUR EMPLOYEES! GOT IT?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Anonymous said...
11:44,
Word in Wilmington is we'll be piloting the ship. The hope is that it'll be branched out like Metromix and the Moms sites to get national advertising back into the fold.
Pankaj Paul (returned from the dead - err, India) is steering the project at the corporate level. So heaven help all environmental reporters! He's a supreme jackass.
Personally, I think Gannett missed the boat by waiting so long to jump into the "green" arena. Nowadays, a mastersite on saving money, frugal living, penny-pinching, how to do work under the table, surviving layoffs, starting your own business on a shoestring, bartering, coupon-clipping and other elements of the New Economy would be far more useful.
The good thing is, is that Wilmington still seems to be a test site for corporate. That means, for the short term, we get to keep pur jobs. Long term — who knows.
ReplyDeleteGreen. Moms. Sports. Metromix.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I think this company fails miserably when it slices and dices people up and assigns them to neat little categories like those above.
Real life, and certainly anything that's newsworthy, just doesn't work that way. Reporting this way might be easier for reporters, but the stories tend to read like something out of a comic book. Not good for credibility.
9:54...so how would you organize things?
ReplyDelete"The good thing is, is that Wilmington still seems to be a test site for corporate."
ReplyDeleteReally? What'd they do?
Seriously. Gannett is so reactionary lately, Wilmington must've made big bucks doing something for the FNC to want to model/testbed them.