Friday, May 01, 2009

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36 comments:

  1. May is going to be a great month!

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  2. Building news! Whatever the F that means.

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  3. Jim -- keep up the good work. This is a good site and has plenty of info for us former Gannett employees.

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  4. Happy May Day, Jim. You are doing a wonderful job.

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  5. Will my comment be deleted if I say I love Gannett. I don't of course.

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  6. "I am the registered user anonymous. Now I can delete my own posts..."

    This blog has just been killed.

    Say bye-bye everyone.

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  7. keep up the good work Jim!

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  8. Jim? Are you getting rid of the crap on here, finally?!!! Thank you. I don't want to thumb through all B.S. just to see what is going on with Gannett. You Rock!!! Keep it that way.

    Laid off from Indy Pressroom

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  9. Jim: Stay strong. You are doing God's work. I and many, many others love and appreciate what you do!

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  10. Newspapers are going to make a comeback.


    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518405,00.html

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  11. FUCK THIS BLOG

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  12. Hey Jim - did someone hack your blog?

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  13. This is God's work? Yikes!

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  14. I really really want to know the Westchester circulation numbers. Anyone have them?

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  15. Jim, you're doing great work. This is a very interesting site, minus the morons with their stupid, self-serving comments. I am sure other responsible employees in other industries will use it as a model to form additional blogs. This is the new watchdog journalism!

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  16. You have to wonder what investors/Wall Street sees in GCI stock. I am a longtime employee and all I see is the dismantling of everything that has ever worked, lousy internal morale and products that are getting more shallow and sloppy by the day.

    Maybe investors should look at this blog before buying stock.

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  17. There's a tremendous amount of shorting of Gannett stock out there. As it has started to recover somewhat, those people will start bailing and have to buy back stock to lock in their previous gains. I think this short covering explains some of the recent recovery, and frankly still has a ways to go.

    The big important fact here for the stock in the short/mid is that Gannett has successfully managed to take bankruptcy off the table for at least the next two years by successfully re-fi'ing their May 2009 maturities. It was the fear of relatively imminent bankruptcy that sent the stock to such lows.

    Yeah, I know those of you with it in your 401k that cost $50/share don't see $4.50 as anything worth crowing about, but I think we'll see some more recovery from here in the next few weeks.

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  18. 2:20

    Maybe investors should look at this blog before buying stock.

    Savvy investors not not look at blogs populated by disgruntled employees. Today's stock price will confirm that.

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  19. Rumor has it that Jeff Bergin is leaving the Gannett family to go and work in San Francisco? Can anyone confirm this?

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  20. Re: Savvy investors not not look at blogs populated by disgruntled employees. Today's stock price will confirm that.

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    Excuse me, but I was not a disgruntled employee. I loved my job and everyone I worked with. But in December I became a number: 1 in 2,000. Let's not forget that Gannett released THOUSANDS of loyal employees through no fault of their own. And we read this blog because we cared about our newspapers and our friends who still work there!

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  21. Keep up the good work, Jim!
    My comments were deleted yesterday as well.
    It wasn't sarcastic nor facetious.

    To show my continued support of the blog - do be on the look-out for a unique envelope coming your way.

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  22. 2:37

    No one called you disgruntled. It was a statement as to the general sentiment of the Gannett Blog. You must admit prior to this week the tone of this blog was one of unhappiness with whoever or whatever.

    I hope there were some who saw the potential to make a dollar off Gannett stock. On the 10th of March it was a $1.85 a share. Eleven minutes before the market closes today the stock is at $4.38 per share. You do the math.

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  23. 12:30. why don't you call up Westchester and say you are an advertiser and you are considering taking an ad out in the newspaper but first you would like the 2009 ABC circulation numbers. I bet you will get the run around on how they don't have those numbers and then they will give you the 2005 circulation numbers like their website does.

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  24. Should we read anything in the Gannett all email on our pension plan? Seems strange that I've never received an email/anything outlining the pension plan in 20 years working for Gannett.

    Or am I worrying over nothing?

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  25. GannettBlogisGreat5/01/2009 4:15 PM

    Keep up the good work Jim!

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    Rumor has it that Jeff Bergin is leaving the Gannett family to go and work in San Francisco? Can anyone confirm this?

    5/01/2009 2:35 PM

    What????!!!!! What is LG doing now if her girlfriend is gone?????

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  27. If half USA Today's circulation is hotel based, what happens if hotels start dropping the paper?

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  28. Should we read anything in the Gannett all email on our pension plan? Seems strange that I've never received an email/anything outlining the pension plan in 20 years working for Gannett.

    Or am I worrying over nothing?

    5/01/2009 4:11 PM

    Didn't you hear? As a cost saving measure due to the further deterioration of the stock market and fiduciary nonentities and required write-downs, the pension plan will be reduced by 30% and 401 (k) matched funds will be increased to 6%. Big meeting Monday to finalize how this will be announced and big announcement Tuesday at 3:00 pm.

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  29. Huh. There are still parts of Gannett that have pension contributions? I know of at least one Gannett TV station that had new contributions/vesting to their pension plan ended last year. So certainly the precedent is out there.

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  30. I can't believe none of you guys or gals got it? Jim hit a grand slam at the shareholders meeting! Absolutely amazing game plan. Think about it for a minute. An ex-Gannett reporter / editor who is running an anti-Gannett blog, which is fairly successful at being a burr under the saddle for Dubow and his merry band of exec's, arrives at the annual shareholders meeting and plays the bumbling village idiot! Did he make a fool of himself or did he actually make a fool out of Dubow? What he did do is have Dubow and his two side-kicks make statements "on the record" that could come back to haunt them in the future. They took the bait hook, line and sinker. Let's just sit back and see what happens next. Simply Mauvelesss, Jim.

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  31. Jim:
    My only problem with the questions you asked Craigy boy is, I think you should of addressed the ongoing situation reguarding the furloughs and salary freezes(as the company shows a profit) while the board received cash payments for bonus' that they should of given up

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  32. Of course Jim hit a grand slam! He has been doing so since he had the balls to do this blog. Jim, thank you for what you have done for all of us. Ignore the jerks who have attacked you. You have many legions of grateful fans out here.

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  33. I see this goon who was deleting comments managed to delete mine about the fact that the threatening remarks on the blog are just that, threats.

    I am speaking from personal experience with similar language. With any luck, the person responsible will go to jail, because you have now gone from annoying to a danger to all of us.

    The prosecutor's office took it as seriously as a heart attack when comments like this were made to me 15 years ago. There's no reason to believe law enforcement would handle it any differently now.

    Karen Wall

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  34. I really, truly love the Gannett Company. They have always put the needs of the employees above corporate greed. They have been on top of this recession since the onset and have taken reasonable measures to stay afloat in hard times. Mr. Dubow has taken a salary cut that has really made a difference. And he would really like to forego his bonuses to help us all out and we're doing our part to help too, like extended furloughs and wage and pay freezes, just like Mr. Dubow. He's so humble that when he came to our site he let Tara Connell do all the talking. She was so polite she thought the 5-minute pep talk was running long,so she let us all go back to work and saved us the time of asking any questions. Doesn't everybody love Gannett as much as I do?

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  35. Re: Rumor has it that Jeff Bergin is leaving the Gannett family to go and work in San Francisco? Can anyone confirm this?

    5/01/2009 2:35 PM
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    See http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/ad_circ/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003968637

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