Sunday, May 24, 2009
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I am the evil mantis of the apocalypse, and I got my President's Ring.
ReplyDeleteSo there.
As this long weekend gets into gear, let's give some time to revving up our engines and preparing to give them a Memorial Day (and Tuesday) they won't forget.
ReplyDeleteWe can start out very simply by rehearsing the chant to "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore."
In the Asbury Park area, we can take the excess garbage written in the APP and sink it in the ocean.
The CN/HNT can all come to Somerville and watch JJC ride in the bicycle races and PG cackle as all the boys in shorts pass by.
Morristown can simply forget to print a paper on Monday, and no one will know.
Vineland and Cherry Hill are collaborating to take two really crappy newspapers and merge them into one paper, "The Cherry Vine" for the few remaining months they will publish.
If any NJ papers need additional help in lowering theirstandards, PG, AT and JJC will all fly from Bridgewater and East Brunswick to show you how to create a real mess. To add their talents to the confusion, JC and DVZ will be happy to share their people skills and personalities with all.
5/22/2009 11:05 PM
ReplyDeleteYou are priceless! Bravo!!!
I'm so lucky to have been moved to elsewhere not to see or hear the non-sense at the CN/HNT anymore. I can only imagine. Would hate to see the doors close for the last time. Keep the imagery coming this way. Priceless!
hey! do I know you???
ReplyDelete"I am the evil mantis of the apocalypse, and I got my President's Ring.
So there.
5/22/2009 10:58 PM"
There was a newspaper in Bridgewater
ReplyDeleteThat once cost only a quarter
Until management's snag
Turned that paper into a rag
Now Fido makes pee pee on the CN in the corner!
(Everyone please feel free to alter the last line!)
I have a question. How many of those "you gotta keep a positive attitude by kissing Gannett's ass" people that have posted here on the blog, have gotten the 'ol Gannett ass kick as of yet?
ReplyDeleteDoes AT read this blog?
ReplyDeleteanyone know what's cooking to kick off the new quarter (other than an expected furlough week)?
ReplyDeleteThe SAD part about the type of people that got the rings is? That they don't have the BALLS they were born with to take some time and go around and atleast thank all the people in there Dept's that helped them get this award
ReplyDeleteDR newsroom, any difference under Flax compared to the guy he replaced? And is there a date yet for the move to the new bldg?
ReplyDeleteOnce again, the JJC column in the CN/HNT has much more documentation than actual copy written by JJC! It is so easy to lift the documentation and let it replace your column, bad as it that is! We learn of JJC's drinking and bar-b-q in the "greatest city in the world"! If Philadelphia is that great a city, move back there!
ReplyDeleteOf course AT reads this blog: who do you think demands Jim to delete nasty comments about her?
ReplyDeleteYay Gus!
ReplyDeleteSkippy (why would a 77 year old man want to be called Skippy?) is ultimately responsible for allowing the mess at the CN/HNT. If he doesn't put all of the dead weight in editorial and advertising and production on the chopping block, who will? Then again, with both newspapers so positively crappy, it's probably best for Skippy to retain the people who are running the papers into the ground. Who would replace them for the little time they will still be publishing?
ReplyDeleteIt's a sure bet that by next
Memorial Day, we will only have memories of these silly little
newspapers. Cackle! Cackle!
4:08 AM
ReplyDelete4:54 PM
A.T. probably does read the blog. Is there any truth to the rumor that another bun is in the oven?
Where's EJ?
ReplyDeleteP.C.F. IS DA BOMB !!
ReplyDelete7:31PM, is it Italian-made?
ReplyDeleteWant a sports section edited for rich white men? Look to the C-N and HNT. Their sports sections are a modern-day version of redlining.
ReplyDeleteThe C-N today is a vivid example:
Preview of the Indianapolis 500 -- no preview of the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600. Name a single Indianapolis driver besides Helio or Danica.
AP copy on NCAA lacrosse tournaments -- nothing on the NBA playoffs. Gannett has deemed LeBron James' 3-point buzzer-beater unacceptable for a daily serving majority-black Plainfield.
AP fluff on a former Yankee pitcher -- nothing on the big drop in major league baseball attendance. The Yankees and Mets figure prominently in the decline.
Canned filler in the back -- at the expense of news from college football, college basketball and the NFL.
This BLOG IS BORING !!!! It once offered information. Now it reminds me of the scribble written on walls inside an elementary school bathroom.
ReplyDeleteAre the papers that bad? I don't think so. Maybe they would be better if everybody thought positively and worked together rather than coming on here and being mean.
ReplyDelete7:31: Any flaxseed in that bun?
ReplyDelete3:44 PM.... Say what? Are you asking if the CN and HNT are that bad because you don't read them to know OR are you being unwittingly ironic? Ther was, at one time, enough of a CN to line all of the litter boxes for Don Salsky's cats. Now, those days are gone! The HNT is no better, and not meaning to be Petty, but some remarkably inept people are in some good positions, if you get my drift!!
ReplyDeleteOMG! Go to the main postings for today and read it for yourself! It seems that we will no longer have a blog. This is devastating news for all but the Gannett kiss-ups who have made our lives miserable all along the way and out the doors!
ReplyDeleteWe will start a Saint Jude Novena and other drastic measures if this is all true!
It is certainly not Jim's fault. but how many times can most of us be flushed down the toilet?
NOW, I guess you'll all be happy-- at the mercy of PG, AT, HR Lady, JC,DVZ, MP, JJC! We will be voices crying in the wilderness, and no one anywhere will be listening!
ReplyDeleteJIM and SPARKY: "May God be with you, wherever you go and in whatever you do". (sprinkles holy water on the CN/ HNT/APP graveyards).
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ReplyDeleteIs this what DVZ is snortle-chortle giggling about all day as nothing gets done but ordering out for lunch??
ReplyDeleteBefore Jim pulls the plug. One last time.
ReplyDeleteCharlie Nutt is no nut.
He's the man.
This BLOG IS BORING !!!! It once offered information. Now it reminds me of the scribble written on walls inside an elementary school bathroom.
ReplyDelete5/24/2009 8:51 AM
Why are you hanging out in elementary school bathrooms?
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE "NEW P.C.F. DELIVERY SERVICE" HAD 822 CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS IN ONE DAY LAST WEEK AT THE A.P.P. AND ARE CALLED CIRCULATION PROFESSIONALS ??
ReplyDeleteYay Gus!
ReplyDeleteHey Jim: you aren't shutting the blog down are you? I understood only that you would no longer be accepting donations, etc. Whats up!
ReplyDeleteWell it seems someone in Jersey has decided to NOT !!!! Recognize Memorial Day Holiday as a LEGAL HOLIDAY and it is not part of the Holiday home delivery specials.I bet this is coming from someone who never even served a day of his/hers life in any of the armed forces.
ReplyDeleteThe holiday deal was a way to screw the customer - forcing them to pay for an extra day whether they wanted it or not. So the fact they aren't screwed is bad??
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