Sunday, June 07, 2009
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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:
ReplyDeleteYou called Dr. in the following exchange (copied below) rude. I am sorry but I cannot understand what is rude; Dr.'s comments were accurate from what I see.
Sadly, I also see continued examples of how you are promoting your "Ibiza experiment." Style, The View From Here, How To Schedule a Business Appointment, Exit Strategies, No Jest, British Air, Coordinating Colors and Brand, PACE (with the irony of the gay rainbow in the background, not that there's anything wrong with that!) - all these posts are riddle with references to your new blog. The only Gannett-related post you have made in a week or more was the one passing reference to a layoff rumor (and speculation) with no follow up, only a comment from you that your single source is "credible."
I don't know what to think.
Here's the discussion I referenced at the beginning (I hope I'm not being rude by sharing MY opinion and get my hand slapped):
Dr. said...
6:45 PM: "Let's hope it will cut down on the negative comments."
Oh, it will all right ... it'll cut out ALL comments.
Jim, if you can't handle this blog anymore, then shut shut it down NOW.
6/07/2009 12:59 AM
Jim said...
Dr.: You are a guest on my blog. Please mind your manners, and stop being rude.
6/07/2009 2:36 AM
This will most likely be my only comment.
Hooray for the sign-in. Now back to business, and the pending layoffs. Anyone hear anything about the magnitude? I asked and was told they are looking for money savings this round, meaning higher salaries. All I got when I asked how many was the answer: "a lot."
ReplyDeletePrometheus:
ReplyDeleteYour sense of entitlement is breathtaking. I've blogged seven days a week for nearly two years on this site: at least 5,000 hours. I've earned in donations and advertising about $11,000, for an average $2.20 an hour. Now, I'm doing it for free -- and yet you and your fellow travelers presume to dictate what I may or may not do.
This site is my property to do with as I please. If I choose to blog exclusively about pink elephants, I shall. And if I lose all my readers, then I pay the price. (Although that's a moot point, of course, because I'm giving up the blog by Oct. 1 anyway.)
Finally, you wrote: "This will most likely be my only comment."
Do us all a favor, please. Never, ever return to this site again.
Edward Allen: You can pretty much take that to the bank.
ReplyDeleteI have posted for several days without getting a response to this. The NJ State Appelate Court just ruled that 11,000 Verizon employees who took voluntary buyouts in 2003 were not entitled to unemployment benefits. Their argument that they felt their jobs were at risk was rejected.
ReplyDeleteAs a May 2008 NJ Gannett employee who took the voluntary buyout after reading a letter from Tom Donovan, I wonder how this all applies. Donovan wroote that if not enoough voluntary buyouts were accepted they would be followed by involuntary layoffs. This positively did happen.
Anyone who has been through this in NJ, please share your experience. I am hoping that Tom Donovan's letter was the biggest factor in our favor!
Thank you!
Jim, you've totally lost your mind.
ReplyDeleteWithout anonymous comments, this blog is now dead.
Have fun in your new endeavors, and hope your ego doesn't squash 'em.
- Dr. Syn
11:58 This ruling will obviously have an effect on future buyouts. It is now up to the state of New Jersey to find other cases where similar buyouts were made. If I were involved in this sort of situation, I would shut the F* up about it because I would not want to give the state of New Jersey any cause to run a search on the word Gannett to look at cases where former GCI employees are drawing unemployment benefits. Bottom line is that jobless benefits for anyone involved in a similar situation as the Verizon employees are in jeopardy.
ReplyDeleteSlap me about the head and call me loony, Jim, I think someone struck a nerve with you. Brother, are you OK?
ReplyDeleteWherever did you come up with the "Entitlement" reference, mate? Can't people speak what is on their minds and converse here any more? You christen one commenter rude and tell one more to stay away? That's not like you! I am almost frightened to utter a word. By the by, I still don't comprehend why you spent so much time with this blog for so little in return. Was there something else to be gained? I may choose to begin a blog of my own one day and I would like to know all the “ins and outs.”
Well, onward and upward as they say! Isn't this the Gannett blog? Why would you even want to use it for things other than Gannett? Why so touchy if you are giving it up anyway? I know, I know, you said you were planning to promote the Ibiza thing two times and that was OK; three or four times would have worked for me. It does look as though you are going a bit overboard, wouldn’t you say?
Now, if I'm out of line here then I suppose I will pay the penalty. After all, this is your blog and your property as it were. Is it really property in that sense of the word? Did you pay money for the rights? Was it a bequest from Google? Ah, well, doesn’t matter, does it?
Ta Ta!
Dr. -- You've lost your mind. It takes like 1 minute to create a logon on google. You can still be anonymous.
ReplyDeleteFor those not wanting to use their home email account, you can create a FREE email account on google. You can use that email and password to post
ReplyDeleteon this blog.
Our beloved Jersey Group continues to provide plenty of fun.
ReplyDeleteCourier News sports section today is 6 pages total, nearly all of it pro sports. A 6-page Sunday sports section -- a great reason to make your readers get the Star-Ledger or a New York paper.
Page 3 in sports has 3 canned columns, all tailored to please rich white men. It's more reactionary than what the late New York columnist Dick Young ever did ...
Witness to Lebron's misstep
Meanwhile, no story Saturday on Game 1 of the NBA Finals, no preview today about Game 2 tonight.
Rutgers should decline
C-N finally reports a 10-day-old story: Joe Paterno hinted at Rutgers joining the Big Ten. Since the C-N prints nothing about college sports unless it involves Rutgers the C-N has driven away a lot of potential readers.
Bettman's wish: A seven-game Cup series
In the U.S. pro hockey has become a minor sport -- and the National Hockey League has an ugly mess on its hands out in Phoenix.
It would appear that I have in some way offended Mr. Prissy. By the way, I comment here for free. Are there really pink elephants? How about unicorns?
ReplyDeleteWow. A former "journalist" censoring comments by not allowing anonymous posts. Where would we be without anonymous sources?
ReplyDeleteI would like to echo comments above about the newsworthiness of this now poorly-named Gannett Blog.
So sad to see a formerly informative forum reduced to its current state.
Cheers, bye!
Puh-leeze! Spare us the censorsorship card. This is called editing comments.
ReplyDeleteI'm not alone in being tired of all the hateful comments directed toward Jim. It's not censorship. He's holding people accountable for what they write. It's not funny to mck people and their beliefs. Grow up.
ReplyDeleteIf the same people cannot follow the rules of decency, they cannot post on HIS blog. Got a problem with it? Go somewhere else!
Another highly paid Gannett puppet rewarded for working his people into the ground…
ReplyDelete“The Leaf-Chronicle President and Publisher Andrew Oppmann was recently recognized as among the best in his field by Gannett Co. Inc.
Oppmann was named one of Gannett’s top three publishers for 2008. Oppmann, who also serves as publisher of The Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro, joined The Leaf-Chronicle in September.
He received his second President’s Ring, the top honor given each year by Gannett’s U.S. Community Publishing division.
Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper company, publishes The Leaf-Chronicle, The DNJ, The Tennessean and 81 other U.S. dailies, including USA Today, the nation’s largest-selling daily newspaper.”
http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20090608/NEWS01/90608007/-1/newsfront2/Leaf-Chronicle+publisher+named+among+top+in+Gannett
It would appear that you have truley decided to censor, with extreme prejudice, the great de Armado.
ReplyDelete"Censorship: the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organizations as determined by a censor."
Am I inconvenient for you? Objectionable, perhaps? Do I ask the wrong questions? Can I not even earn the dreaded "deleted by owner" monicker? Must you slap me away before even allowing my words to see the light of day? What are you afraid of in the words that I say?
I know, you do not like my accent. You are prejudiced against me. You should take the time to get to know me.