[Dubow, Martore, Big Brother, Dickey and Connell]
The letter I sent CEO Craig Dubow at 8:17 a.m. ET on Thursday.
The letter I sent CEO Craig Dubow at 8:17 a.m. ET on Thursday.
Monday, May 04, 2009
78 comments:
Jim says: "Proceed with caution; this is a free-for-all comment zone. I try to correct or clarify incorrect information. But I can't catch everything. Please keep your posts focused on Gannett and media-related subjects. Note that I occasionally review comments in advance, to reject inappropriate ones. And I ignore hostile posters, and recommend you do, too."
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Jim, you have totally lost it.
ReplyDeleteSeriously. I'm not corporate, just one of your more knowledgeable readers, as least from the twin tower part of the operation.
If you really believe this, then I can't really trust you because it shows you've lost your grip on reality.
Plus, will you PLEASE address the fact that so many posts are gone? Did you do remove them, did someone hack it, was it, um, Big Brother?
We deserve an answer rather than you continuing to post things as if everything is fine.
Or is your motto Ignorance is Strength.
I posted a very complimentary note about Jim and all that he does for us, and it was deleted. What gives?
ReplyDeleteI removed hundreds of abusive posts left between Saturday and Tuesday. I left many more untouched.
ReplyDeleteI believe you, 12:59 pm, are referring to an incident today, while I temporarily allowed readers to post their own comments: Someone registered under their Google account posted a couple dozen BLANK comments, then removed them, leaving behind a trail of "deleted by author" notes. (Any Google account holder can do this.)
The purpose was to mislead readers into thinking I had "censored" a bunch of comments.
I came back afterward, and then removed the remaining headers.
Note: Anything I do references "blog administrator"; I'm the only one given that designation.
Regarding the "removed by author" posts, I think they were able to remove some that weren't their own as well.
ReplyDeleteI may be mistaken, but Posts I made yesterday and today are no longer on the blog.
And they were nice, clever, witty and inciteful, too!
Jim why arent you reporting that GCI is at 4.63 a share up almost 19% alone today?? OR even a better question that Gannett is the last newspaper company to not report a loss! Washington Post just reported a large loss today! let me me know jim thanks
ReplyDelete1:44 pm: Because you just did! I'm not the only reporter here, after all. Besides, this is supposed to be my day off.
ReplyDeleteJim,
ReplyDeleteWhen you come back from your day off (which you deserve), look at Thursday's comments. Almost the entire thing is deleted. Does this person who registered as Anonymous have the ability to delete every anonymous post? Can you kick him or her off please? This really pisses me off.
Jim,
ReplyDeleteI don't work for a Gannett paper. I occasionally come to your blog to see what's up, so I really have no dog in this fight. I just wanted to make two observations:
I think you have to trust your gut as a journalist and a human being. If you smell a rat, likely it's a rat.
At the same time, I have to ask: Why do you continue with this blog? It must eat up all your time. You're not making a lot of money on it. And some of the people reading it don't seem to appreciate or deserve your effort.
You could be doing a lot of things that would make you happier, without all the tension and name calling.
Then again, I'd hate to see Gannett corporate get its wish, which I suspect is the reason you push on.
But, take care of yourself. This isn't worth it.
testing
ReplyDeleteWe deserve an answer rather than you continuing to post things as if everything is fine. ...
ReplyDelete5/01/2009 12:59 PM
What is this "we" nonsense? You speak for nobody but yourself.
Jim,
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your day off. Hell, enjoy the weekend, too. Let the company goons masturbate away.
Jim's respone at 1:38 today reveals his paranoia.
ReplyDeleteI am the person who deleted all the comments this morning. And I didn't do it "to mislead readers into thinking (Jim) had 'censored' a bunch of comments."
I did it because the opportunity arose and I wanted to needle Jim.
Here's what happened: For some reason, when I logged on this morning, there was an icon of a trash can under every post except the ones posted by Jim. So I just started clicking on a bunch of them and deleting them. First, I did every post. Then I changed tactics and left up posts that criticized Jim.
Later this morning, the trash can icons were no longer there, and I couldn't delete the posts anymore.
I wasn't hired by Corporate to infiltrate the blog. I'm not a Corporate hack. I'm not a hacker.
I'm just someone who has become totally disillusioned with Jim in recent months.
The paranoia, the ego, the out-to-Gannett-at-any-costs attitude all annoyed the heck out of me. And then there was his embarassing, comical, sad performance at the stockholders meeting (if you haven't watched it, you must see how Jim was befuddled by a microphone that even a guy from Yonkers could use) that just had me shaking my head.
This blog has become crap. If Corporate is reading this, I hope you decide to never revisit it again. The curtain has been pulled away, exposing Jim as someone who has far more paranoia than he has facts.
Knowing my pals in individual newspaper management and at corporate, I completely believe they are planting most of the recent abusive comments.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteKnowing my pals in individual newspaper management and at corporate, I completely believe they are planting most of the recent abusive comments.
5/01/2009 3:45 PM
Yep, agree, the vindictive attitude just shines from miles away.
I'm just someone who has become totally disillusioned with Jim in recent months.
ReplyDelete-------
If you are THAT disillusioned...then just stop reading.
Wow...real simple solution.
The TRUTH is that for some reason there was an icon of a little trash can and someone used it to remove the posts.
ReplyDeleteAnd he's admitted it in an area above this.
No "corporate" goon. Just a guy.
And why? Because through JIM's sloppiness when HE removed what he calls abusive posts, he must have left that feature activated.
Here's the real deal, OK?
-- Jim went into Thursday's postings and removed what he called "abusive" posts. And yes, many were awaful, hateful stuff.
But look at Thursday. it's ALL gone. All of it. Including posts that simply criticized his performance.
-- After doing that, a trash can icon suddenly appears on every post on the blog. I remmeber seeing it, too, and wondering why I had never seen that before. But I didn't click it.
-- Then someone else, who describes this elsewhere, says he deleted the posts in the other area.
-- Enter a befuddled, microphone-challenged Jim (sorry, can't resist, everyone should watch the tape), enters, wonders what happened, and BLAMES CORPORATE!!!
To think of it Jim's way -- Attention Corporate Goons: Go in and remove posts so it will look like Jim is deleting posts! -- is kind of...crazy?
A simple answer is what really happened.
Jim needs to stop the blog entirely, or start over.
Right now it's a case study in either delusion or misdirection.
3:42... so, why don't you surf the internet someplace else? Is this blog like a bug zapper, drawing you in just to zap your feeble mind?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't doubt it if corporate has people working on discrediting Jim and his efforts. Its a tactic I've seen in other forms in other fields.
There is nothing that the upper echelon folks will not do to maintain their egos and their positions. Remember that power corrupts. Not saying this is out and out corruption, but the integrity of the upper echelon must be called into question now, as it always must be.
Jim, next time your on the East Coast and need security, let the blog know. I will get in touch to offer my services at a friends-and-family rate that Kroll won't offer.
WTH 3:42 you should start your own blog. I am amazed at your gall & that you would post it. Why mess around here for months if you're disillusioned? Don't read it. Duh. Personally I find this blog helpful: read many posts that shed light on work/Gannett topics I would never see elsewhere. Thanks, Jim, for pushing on.
ReplyDeleteFor me, this blog has been a lifeline to sanity while Corporate tries to spin and obfuscate the truth while laying off many of my friends who were outstanding employees. As a longtime Gannett editor I am shocked when people like Bob Dickey take golf outings billed to our company and the board continues to give bonuses for major losses to worthless CEOs like Dubow and his cronies. I hope the blog continues, if nothing more than a thorn in the side of Goebbels-like Tara Connell.
ReplyDeleteEvery empire falls, as will this blog.
ReplyDeleteI (I'm someone else, not previously posting on this thread) mess around here because someone has to set the record straight when morons place lies and untruths out here as the truth. Like the USA TODAY numbers lies thread. Or the Hilton doesn't have a new agreement with USAT lies thread. Any good news is trashed and SOME-one has to bring some sense of balance back to the world.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I finally took the time to watch the "performance" at the annual meeting. What a disaster. What a joke. I honestly couldn't believe what I was seeing and I don't mean all the antics with the microphone. Hell, CD called Jim by name at least twice at the very beginning. And all the moving around was silly to say the least. The questioning was so rambling and what was the purpose of that clip board? Could Jim remember the questions he wanted to ask?? WTF??? I finally had to stop watching. The fellow from Yonkers was entertaining but Jim, you were just a caricature.
And finally, 33 hours since...? Why would corporate 1) give two shits about this blog full of anonymous comments and 2) why would corporate dignify this post with a response?
I guess I don't understand what's happening here. This blog has had some good information (furloughs, for example), but I really don't understand this post.
ReplyDeleteWhen you worked as a journalist, did you seriously send Financial institutions e-mails saying "Hey, What kind of scam are all of your financial products?" and then when they didn't reply in 20 minutes write a story saying "This financial institution refuses to reveal which of its products are a scam!"
You asked them a question, and, I assume, haven't gotten a reply, and then assumed that lack of a reply means a verification of your accusation. That's not responsible journalism, and it's not even really interesting.
Don't expect a response from these executives you list here. If they answer "yes", they hired a consultant, then they look like fools. If they answer "no", then they are lying. They are smart not to answer it.
ReplyDeleteFor your information, they have hired several consultants not only to combat the noise from the blog, but also to help with marketing, sales, facilities.
There are dozens of consultants that Dubow has hired. Including his personal "coach" and spiritual advisor, the famous author, Ram Charan.
The corporate paid blog dogs are back and apparently being compensated by the post. After reading this board, there must be bonus pay for mentioning Jim's mental state or emphasizizing how the poster has no affiliation with corporate.
ReplyDeleteAll of us should be redoubling our efforts to funnel Jim documents about Gannett's latest crazy-ass initiatives and misguided conduct that reflect badly on the company. Jim can't do it all by himself. It takes a village.
ReplyDeleteBe ready for even more furloughs and layoffs. This current stock surge has been fueled by them
ReplyDeleteOh, yes. Furloughs are on the way. I've been hearing things all around my building and doors are closed on meetings almost daily. The economy is tanking again even though reports show otherwise.
ReplyDeleteThis should be posted on each thread!
ReplyDelete" Have you been watching IP addresses? You should be able to get a good idea of where these comments are coming from and block that address, with the right software. "
Right, then Jim could become his own big brother. He could be just like the thoses he is trying to attack and discredit. Come on, give us some censorship. Let us know we can never tell what will be published and what won't be published - just like right now.
You control the horizontal, you control the verticle. You can't control what goes in but you can sure control what we see. That's why you have to provide blog owner approval.
Until this blog has real names attached to each post it will never have credibility because no one can tell the source of anything. Of course, I'm sure that would dramatically cut down on comments but it might increase funding if that truley is your purpose. Hell, if everyone really cared tha would be willing to register and pay a subscription rate up front for the right to participate. I might even be willing to pay for that. At least it would be a subscription and not a donation.
I challenge you. Show everyone if this thing has legs or not.
If CD is listening to Ram he is showing he is smarter than any thought.
ReplyDelete3:42 PM, who deleted our comments, may be a corporate hired gun or just an ordinary sociopath. After all, normal people who get disillusioned just go somewhere more to their liking. They don't seek to destroy the work of people who aren't disillusioned.
ReplyDeleteDisgruntled might be a more apt word, but, either way, deletions of approved comments have nothing to do with the onslaught of what was obviously a slander campaign on Jim's "performance" starting moments after the meeting televised only on an intranet. It's really a no-brainer.
Jim, you should see if you can do something about making this blog inaccessible to the sociopath. It's not you he offended, but all of us whose conversations among ourselves were deleted.
All will be well if we just use our names? There, I posted with my name. It adds what to the conversation?
ReplyDeleteIs the name real? Only I know. Jim doesn't. You don't. An IP address won't tell you my name.
Talk about wasting time and energy.
The concept of free speech comes from the Enlightenment, a philosophy that people -- the vast majority -- are inherently good and ethical, and as such will self-correct the socio- and psychopaths that crop up from time to time.
Gannett is not a person. It's a corporation. It's in the job description that execs must be sociopaths to earn those multimillion-dollar salaries, because corporations are inherently all about stacking the deck for the rich and privileged class, without caring a flip for workers or even the customer, except inasfar as they can exploit the worker and customer for more money for the privileged few. Another no-brainer.
Gannett is running scared.
ReplyDelete3:42
ReplyDeleteGet the hell off this site, you idiot.
Does anyone seriously believe Gannett is above sabotaging Gannett Blog? Read "Chain Gang," a book written more than 20 years ago about Gannett's ruthless business practices. Gannett's top leaders will do WHATEVER THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH to meet their goals.
ReplyDeleteStep 1: Establish your history with the blog.
ReplyDelete"Jim, I've been a reader of this blog since the beginning."
Step 2: Establish your commitment with the blog.
"In fact, I've even given money to the blog in the past."
Step 3: Attack!
"But despite being let go from Gannett last year, I'm much angrier at you for your line of questioning at the shareholders meeting. Firing me from a 20+ year job can't compare to someone I've never met in person asking questions that I don't feel were hard enough after traveling to Gannett headquarters to take on the beast. Yep...I did a complete 180 degree turn from where I was a few months ago."
Step 4: Rally the troops.
"I don't know why everyone keeps visiting...this site is dead. It used to be the people's arm against GAnnett and a source for information...now it's the same thing, but led by someone who asked wimpy questions at the shareholders meeting. Come on everybody, let's leave!"
Step 5: Repeat, with bonus points for agreeing with a past flamer's post.
"You're completely right 6:22. Jim has lost it. I've followed this site for three months now..."
11:16 AM, spot on!
ReplyDeleteROTFMMMFAO
Is it possible to prove one didn't see a UFO?
ReplyDelete"Jim why arent you reporting that GCI is at 4.63 a share up almost 19% alone today??"
ReplyDeleteHey 1:44 PM, if Jim doesn't report it, then why is the stock price on the front page of this blog? I see no one hiding the daily ups and downs of Gannett stock?
It is clear as the nose on Jim's face!
"Every empire falls, as will this blog.
ReplyDelete5/01/2009 5:50 PM"
That statement is so damn funny. Do you really think this blog is an empire?
It is far more convincing that Gannett is an empire, so to use your statement, Gannett will fall. Judging from the stock price Gannett has done a great job of falling, too!
3:42 PM is 100% correct.
ReplyDeleteI could have done the same thing, and I'm no kool-aid drinker, either.
But of course Jim has to go for the paranoia angle.
"I'm just someone who has become totally disillusioned with Jim in recent months." 3:42 PM
ReplyDeleteDisillusionment is your state of mind. It has nothing to do with Jim or what he is doing (or not doing).
I think you need a reality check, for Jim is not your leader or savior, and has nothing to do with your well being or lack there of. If you do not want to be disillusioned, go find your enlightenment within yourself, and not in external things out of your control.
I'm so angry with Jim's performance at the shareholders meeting, that I'm going to continue visiting his blog on a very regular basis and leave angry comments aimed at stopping others from coming here. Coincidentally, I'm going to do this at the same as hundreds of others who ar edoing the same thing. Keep in mind, this is only a coincidence that all of us keep coming back to a site we supposedly hate to leave hateful messages on a blog we don't want others to visit.
ReplyDeleteGrrrr....I'm so angry, I'm engaging in actions that make no sense!!
Jim and all:
ReplyDeleteThis is not corporate fighting Gannett Blog.
This is a glitch with Blogger software which is affecting all blogs.
I just read this on Cake Wrecks, cakewrecks.blogspot.com, one of the Internet's most popular food blogs, and voted best food blog and best humor in two recent major blog awards. I daresay her traffic's as high as Jim's, if not higher:
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/05/we-are-experiencing-technical.html
I understand your paranoia, Jim. But a quick bit of fact-checking before firing angry notes to Corporate might be more in order.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteI'm so angry with Jim's performance at the shareholders meeting, that I'm going to continue visiting his blog on a very regular basis and leave angry comments aimed at stopping others from coming here. Coincidentally, I'm going to do this at the same as hundreds of others who ar edoing the same thing. Keep in mind, this is only a coincidence that all of us keep coming back to a site we supposedly hate to leave hateful messages on a blog we don't want others to visit.
Grrrr....I'm so angry, I'm engaging in actions that make no sense!!
5/02/2009 3:52 PM
I'm with you on this one! I'm one of those hundred others.
Apparently the Goon squad doesn't work weekends.
ReplyDeleteif there's an organized campaign of haters from corporate communications here, they'll have to spend/waste a lot of the company's time every day for weeks or months to keep this up. Because it'll be even more obvious if it suddenly stops.
ReplyDeletehey, if they're being directed by corporate do they have to stop posting obnoxious comments during their furloughs?
Jim,
ReplyDeleteFirst, let me say that I am not a corporate hired gun to discredit this blog. I am a current 27 year employee at one of their properties. I am really concerned about my future with this company, especially since I am 10 years from retirement.
I would also say that I am glad that I found this web site. I think you have accomplished much and have been a great source of information for all of us.
In my honest opinion, your performance at the shareholders meeting was embarassing. It is hard for me to believe that you solicited questions from all of us for days before the meeting. My question to you... were the questions presented at the meeting the best of the list? We all knew there were no laid off employees sitting up front... geez.
I have read your letters to corporate and you have great writng skills. Please let me tell you... stay with the printed word.
He (Dubow) asked you twice to please speak into the mic. You came off as a babbling clown... one who couldn't figure out the mic... one who had to keep looking at the silly clipboard and seemingly having to search for your questions. I think the corporate idiots probably had a good chuckle at your expense at lunch afterwards. Gee... even the guy from Yonkers knew how to speak into the mic.
Bottom line.. in my opinion... your visit there was all about you... and it seems you have a personal vendetta or something. You could do yourself and this blog a big favor... to pass on any future visits to the meeting. If you should decide to go again... please get some coaching on how to use a mic... on how to stand still and talk into it... and take a course on public speaking... and most of all... if you are going to make it all about you... then don't ask for our input.
Jim,
ReplyDeleteAs a loyal, long-time but silent reader, I feel compelled to make my first post - please drop the paranoia. If you have proof that someone at the big G is actively trying to sabotage you and/or your blog, then please post it, otherwise, you are simply just making yourself look petty and paranoid.
Stick to what you do best - dig for the dirt and scoop all outlets with the facts. I thank you for all your work that you have done but please, please drop the 'they are out to get me' rhetoric. Thank you & God Bless.
How does the old song go, "But that was yesterday, and yesterday's gone."
ReplyDeleteI have to laugh at how freaked out some of you are getting because your brilliant comments of Thursday were deleted. Get over yourselves. It's almost Sunday, May 3. If you're reporters, put the effort you expend on this blog to better use by finding some news, as in NEW INFORMATION on anything that the community would like to read.
As for the rise in Gannett stock, when is everybody going to understand that the stock market is NOT the measure of the economic conditions in this country. It just means more people bought shares of Gannett than sold them. If it goes up to $5, people will probably ditch them and then what? The stock price will GO DOWN.
Things are really bad out here for us unemployed with no health insuranace, thanks to Gannett. And car companies, etc. I don't give a good goddamn if their stock goes up and BTW, if you think that's going to save your job down the road, wise up. It won't.
Since some posters are trashing Jim for his effort at the big ol' meeting the other day, let me pose this question to you.
ReplyDeleteWhat have you done to make your Gannett office a better place to work? Have you offered up a well-through suggestion to make your office or your paper better? Have you suggested a way to lower operating costs at your Gannett outpost that does not involve cutting more employees? (Every little bit helps, you know.)
Or are you just a person who is so miserable with his lot in life (considers himself stuck in his Gannett job with no hope for the future) that he has nothing better to do but whine and complain?
By the way, of you whiners who have Gannett stock, how many of you actually voted your shares? Because if you didn't, you've got nothing...not one damn thing to complain about regarding the effort Jim is putting forth.
Now...have yourself a nice weekend.
Well said 6:45. I right with you.
ReplyDeleteCritical (not critics) readers can well see the newly "toned down but same style" of writing that still neysay Jim.
ReplyDeleteStill harping and commenting on the shareholders meating and calling it out to be self grandizing of Jim, rahter than seeing it for what it was. A mirrored reaction to the stance Gannet has taken with it's customers, advertisers, and employees for years.
The ultimate farce.
Critical (not critics) readers can well see the newly "toned down but same style" of writing that still neysay Jim.
ReplyDeleteStill harping and commenting on the shareholders meating and calling it out to be self grandizing of Jim, rahter than seeing it for what it was. A mirrored reaction to the stance Gannet has taken with it's customers, advertisers, and employees for years.
The ultimate farce.
5/02/2009 10:58 PM
No, Jim is the ultimate farce right now but you are closing in.
6:45....right on! Since Jim didn't do the job we felt he should have asking questions at the shareholders meeting, I'm glad you were there to step up and hit them with a hardball or two! I can only assume you were at the shareholder's meeting, correct? And that you did a better job of questioning corporate on questions that they've been dodging for some time now? And now you're returning to this blog to leave negative comments for Jim in the hopes that he can be inspired by YOUR performance there? Well played, sir.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, your comment follows the EXACT same format of the "Mad Libs" comment earlier in the discussion. Establish history, establish commitment, attack, repeat. Nobody's forcing you to come here...(maybe?)
The real threat is not to Jim Hopkins, but rather from Jim Hopkins.
ReplyDeleteHis performance at the stockholder meeting revealed an unstable person with a lot of issues. He has to be on a watch list by now.
"Jim, you should see if you can do something about making this blog inaccessible to the sociopath."
ReplyDeleteJim is the only sociopath who posts here.
1:04
ReplyDeleteNo I wasn't there! Were you? Are you a laid off Gannett employee or possibly a current employee that may not be worried about your job?
It really doesn't matter what format you think my post was in or out. I did not post any of the negative attack posts last week or this week. Jim can check my ip address on this for sure.
I DO currently work for a Gannett property (don't know how much longer though). No I am not a journalist, a wordsmith or any of that. I am a person that has given 27 years to a career that seems to be spiraling downward.
There are some things I do know however. One... in order to be a credible representative of this blog or anything else in life... you should present yourself in a professional manner. Two... You should be articulate. I know Jim is articulate, because of writing skills he has shown in letters to corporate. He surely did not come across as articulate at the meeting.
Why not show up with a professional personal appearance (perhaps a sports caoat and tie... a fresh haircut (without the stupid hat). At the very least maybe a knit shirt with your logo on it.
What's wrong with being prepared before you get to the mic? Maybe I'm wrong here... but how long did he have before he arrived Tuesday morning to prepare ... decide on 4 or 5 questions he wanted to ask.
Just my opinion... but it seemed more about letting everyone present that day KNOW THAT JIM HOPKINS IS IN THE HOUSE.
Seating arrangement? The Golf Tournament? The 40,000 endowment?
How many of you that are laid off or possibly in line for a layoff are interested in a silly seating arrangement.
Here's a good one in my opinion.
In light of the fact that some people on a MBO bonus program are paid by performance based results.
Using the same measurement scheme... why do the top 5 or 6 executives think they deserve millions in total bonuses???
Why didn't you forego your bonuses (since your performance doesn't warrant a bonus anyway), and provide laid off employees some relief... such as insurance and medical help.
Nope... the questions and the appearnce at the meeting was to let them know Jim was in the house and it was all about him.
To 4:56
ReplyDeleteNicely put. Thank you for taking the time to share all that because there are others that agree with you completely.
4:56 pm: That would have been a very good question to ask Dubow or the board of directors. So, why did you not do that? Why are you coming here to berate me for failing to do what you could have done on your own?
ReplyDeleteI spoke to Dubow as but one shareholder from San Francisco. I was precise: I did not say I represented a larger group of anyone. I had no right to make that claim, and so I did not.
Thank you, 8:10, I couldn't have put it better or with more class.
ReplyDeleteJim, it's because 5:46 is a pansy jackass. Have you noticed that since several of us commented that it's easy to see he's the same one posting at NJ Confidential but not Elmira Confidential, he has stopped posting at his home site. 27 years, huh? I think I hit the nail on the head the first time I was struck by how much the troll sounds like a certain NJ Group top exec. Until the trolling, I didn't think he was a jackass, but I do now.
ReplyDelete5:58 pm: LOL! Honestly, I'm kind of honored. Imagine: Snidely himself has returned!
ReplyDeletehttp://tinyurl.com/d5ntkt
8:25 locks up the Gannettblog Dumbfuck of the Week Award with this insightful economic analysis:
ReplyDelete"As for the rise in Gannett stock, when is everybody going to understand that the stock market is NOT the measure of the economic conditions in this country. It just means more people bought shares of Gannett than sold them."
Really? So did folks buy those shares from the Stock Fairy? Or maybe someone just crapped those shares out somehow?
Just to further 8:25's education, each share bought requires a willing seller.
Jim is finally uncovered as the fraud that he is. He is not out to help Gannett's employees, but to do all he can to get "back" at Gannett for giving him a career for 20 years and paying him $105,000 to not work for a year. Why so bitter, Jim? Get a life. Get a job. End your petty, sick effort to bring down Gannett. It will be around long after you.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who has followed this blog for some time can see the sudden, unprovoked swing in comments towards Jim. You would have to be blind not to see it as an orchestrated effort by someone at corporate or someone hired by corporate to discredit Jim. For too long the Gannett bigwigs have done what they want, when they want and how they want. Now they have someone who is exposing their greed and the way they would screw the average Gannettoid to get an extra nickel in their pocket. Keep doing what you are doing, Jim. It is obviously working or the Gannett powers would just be ignoring you.
ReplyDelete5:58 and Jim
ReplyDeleteYou two are so far off base it is amusing. Your (they are out to get me PARANOIA) is running thin.
First, I have NEVER EVER posted on the Jersey or Elmira page!!! I am located in the South.
Second, You wanted to infer last week that you were going as a representative of us all. YOU ASKED FOR A LIST OF QUESTIONS TO ASK DUBOW.
Third, It is hard to believe that the questions you asked were the best of the litter???
It appears that you only want the posts that are favorable to your performance.
As I stated before, I am not a hired gun, trying to discredit this blog. I like the blog. I like what you have accomplished here. But... it appears you do not want performance appraisals unless it shines a good light on you.
9:17 PM is probably telling the truth. "Snidely" doesn't use a computer and would never post here or anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteBut 9:17 admits trolling here, because he identifies himself as the obsessive brat who is trying to destroy Jim's personal blog because Jim's personal observations don't match his own brownshirt thoughts. He's the jackass who knew who I was talking to when I called him out as a jackass.
ReplyDeleteA troll is a troll, and doesn't deserve respect no matter whether corporate told him to do it or if he's just stupid enough to jump on the bandwagon someone else started because it makes him feel like a big man in his little sociopathic pea brain.
I've been following the blog since the early days, and I can say with 100 percent certainty that the attacks on Jim are obviously coordinated by one or two individuals. They have nothing. The attacks on Jim are already tired and redundant.
ReplyDeleteYou corporate douchenozzles should give it up. It's lame.
The video of Jim's performance was as illuminating as the video of the horrible beating police in Los Angeles gave to Rodney King. Both were evidence of huge problems that words and still photos could not completely tell.
ReplyDeleteI was embarrassed for Jim (and for journalists everywhere) when I watched his stuttering, stamering efforts during the annual stockholder's meeting. His questions were leading and biased, yet they were easily dispatched by Criag Dubow and other corporate officials.
Jim's "good to see you" comments to various current and retired corporate officials were clearly insincere and just made him look foolish, just as his "apparently that's the VIP section" comment.
If this was an example of Jim's interview efforts as a reporter, it's a miracle he lasted as long in the business as he did.
Will someone be passing out the tin foil hats soon?
ReplyDeleteJim, Whether there's a "disinformation war" against the blog or not, nobody at Gannett (or any company) would admit to it. If in fact there is a "disinformation war" as you have become preoccupied thinking they're winning because you've become focused the "war" versus the blog at it grew to be.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, if you continue on the current path, you'll lose what made the blog viable to so many of us which I am so grateful for having.
I like this blog and continue to visit it because I work for a company that isn't open and honest with its employees. And on multiple occasions, involving major developments, I learned about them here before I learned about them from my bosses.
ReplyDeleteI like this blog because it points out the ludicrous hypocrisy of a corporation purportedly in the information-sharing business, which is closed and secretive and uninnovative on the most fundamental levels.
The drama that some of the rest of you -- on both sides -- want to interject into it ... man. Stop watching reality TV or something.
Jim,
ReplyDeleteYou say you were at the meeting just representing yourself, one shareholder from San Francisco. Isn't that in conflict with your posts previous to the meeting wherein (1) you asked posters to help select & refine your questions and (2) you organized a committee of posters to serve as an aid to refining your line of questioning?
If this was an example of Jim's interview efforts as a reporter, it's a miracle he lasted as long in the business as he did.
ReplyDelete5/04/2009 11:57 AM
Maybe that had something to do with his departure since there are those that think it wasn't a voluntary buy out.
Jim Hopkins said...
ReplyDelete4:56 pm: That would have been a very good question to ask Dubow or the board of directors. So, why did you not do that? Why are you coming here to berate me for failing to do what you could have done on your own?
I spoke to Dubow as but one shareholder from San Francisco. I was precise: I did not say I represented a larger group of anyone. I had no right to make that claim, and so I did not.
5/03/2009 5:12 PM
Then why, pray tell, did you ask for all the input from everyone on this blog before you went. You wore your gannett blog had which must have meant you were there representing the blog and from what everyone keeps saying, you are doing the blog for us!
Which is it?
"Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteI never did receive a response to my question from the thread:
"Multitasker | Has Tara Connell added another hat? "
5/04/2009 7:26 AM"
Well Jim, it's been at least three days since I last asked for a response from you on my question and you still have not responded. Are you out to get me or do I just not matter to you like you don't matter to CD?
Jim, what happened to several days worth of posts in this thread that were critical of you -- including mine, which pointed out that any surge in critical comments after the shareholders' meeting was most likely due to your grandstanding at the shareholders' meeting, which surely made many people who had been ignoring this blog come out of the woodwork to remind you that this is a joke among the Gannett rank-and-file?
ReplyDeleteOh, why do I bother? Jim will just delete this comment and call it "abusive." Or part of a smear campaign orchestrated on the 11th floor. Whatever, dude.