Regarding management's decision to stop defending Gannett before my more than 10,000 monthly visitors, a reader says: "You are drinking your own brand of Kool-Aid, Jimmy. You had a brief window where a cross section of the company was willing to look in. Hoping for an unbiased forum, a place where those who had no voice could speak. Where ideas that had been lost in the chaos could be heard. Some at the top were going to check in to see what ideas and on-point criticisms came up. But that moment is gone. I suspect that most of those with any power have decided, with reason, that this is a forum for whiners to whine. Your numbers are up because whiners like company. And, of course, they have plenty from their positions to whine about. But the execs don't have time for the same old song, have moved on, working on multiple major projects that you largely have no clue about. Whine on."Join the debate, in the original post.
Funny thing. He or she sounds like a whiner to me.
ReplyDeleteTo the reader, who is obviously, someone who is in the inter circle at Gannett and thinks, that they are important! Jim may not know about your multiple projects, but I do, have an idea of what they are. As little Al can tell you. I have the ability, to get deep into Gannett's secrets, that GCI does not want anybody else to know. By the way reader, Kool_Aid is alot cheaper, then the scotch, you like to drink.
ReplyDeleteI learn more about what's going on with my employer here than I do from the company itself.
ReplyDeleteWhy do I have the sneaking suspicion that the poster who said this site is just about whining might be one of the "lucky 120" whose pensions aren't being affected?
Maybe this is a bit of a whine, but my small daily is starting to feel the effects of recent combining of press and graphics resources with other area papers. Our press has become so overloaded with things to do that our deadlines have been made insanely early. Friday nights the deadline for news is 9:30 p.m., for sports 10. Late night city council meetings and sports are feeling the biggest pinch. There's talk in the newsroom of switching to an afternoon paper. If Gannett didn't insist on combining resources between clustered papers we wouldn't have this problem. The last of our own press was shuttled out of the building last week. I wonder if others are having time issues now that outsourcing has become so typical.
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