In Lafayette, La., that sucking sound is The Daily Advertiser's dwindling profits, getting whisked to McLean, Va., The Independent Weekly says: "For centuries, locally owned papers had a different mission, but now the Advertiser's readers are being told they must pay for Gannett's mistakes." Next, it's a nagging feeling we know too well: Why we linger in the parking lot before going in. Finally, in a virtual time capsule, we collect artifacts for future researchers, tracing Gannett's 21st-century decline.
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In Lafayette, La., that sucking sound is The Daily Advertiser's dwindling profits, getting whisked to McLean, Va., The Independent Weekly says: "For centuries, locally owned papers had a different mission, but now the Advertiser's readers are being told they must pay for Gannett's mistakes." Next, it's a nagging feeling we know too well: Why we linger in the parking lot before going in. Finally, in a virtual time capsule, we collect artifacts for future researchers, tracing Gannett's 21st-century decline.
In Lafayette, La., that sucking sound is The Daily Advertiser's dwindling profits, getting whisked to McLean, Va., The Independent Weekly says: "For centuries, locally owned papers had a different mission, but now the Advertiser's readers are being told they must pay for Gannett's mistakes." Next, it's a nagging feeling we know too well: Why we linger in the parking lot before going in. Finally, in a virtual time capsule, we collect artifacts for future researchers, tracing Gannett's 21st-century decline.
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Just read the opinion piece about corporate greed in Lafayette, La.
ReplyDeleteI hate reading critical stuff about friends. I don't know why it seems better here than knowing that it was published in the same town as The Daily Advertiser, but it is.
Maybe it is because I know the editors and managers have struggled over every cut and layoff and the staff is doing its best to put out a paper. Terrible stuff.
It's LafayEtte. At least spell shit right.
ReplyDeleteThe alt weekly in that market (and the people that created it, sold it, then came back to the market to open another one) does what any alt weekly does to ANY daily - loathe the daily newspaper and trash it whenever possible in a self serving manner.
ReplyDeleteCrap like this has to be taken in context. Anything those alt weekly folks have to say about the daily is going to have a self serving and very negative spin. It has nothing to do with Gannett. If that daily paper were owned by ANY other media company, they would be trash talking them too. If it were even locally owned, they would just find something else to pick on. Even if it were doing well, they would claim the OC was pulling off a Ponzi scheme or something.
The funny part about these alt weeklies trashing their daily newspapers is MANY of them are down in revenue far more than the newspapers. They too became over reliant on Classifieds like Auto, Real Estate and Employment.
Shit is spelled Lafayette?
ReplyDelete9:43 am: Oooph! Stoopid mistake on my part; it's now fixed.
ReplyDeleteThe trash the daily newspaper comment is accurate. Alternative weeklies and talk radio would have nothing to write about if it weren't for the local daily paper.
ReplyDeleteThey react constantly to whatever initiative is shown in the local daily newspaper.
The views about alt weeklies are particularly funny, especially in light of how many Gannett newspapers created to shore up shrinking revenues and reach.
ReplyDeleteBundled prices made them look fat, but in reality, not so much. And, now that times are tough, Gannett’s likely suffer even more as a result. Why? Competitors publications are their livelihoods, Gannett’s are well, just non-dailies -- name alone speaks for itself.
And, in regard to “crap” shots, few employees would disagree that they’re not well-deserved. Doubt it? Just listen to what they say at work, let alone what’s shared here.