Monday, April 20, 2009
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ReplyDeletecmon NJ group, I check in here almost every day hoping to hear how my former colleagues are faring, hoping to hear some news about how copy desk consolidation is going (for example) and all I see is a bunch of juvenile BS about when will the reporters investigate the building, boo hoo hoo, etc etc. Jim gave NJ a forum and you're wasting the opportunity!! Carpe diem, guys!!
ReplyDeleteNo one cares about consolidation.
ReplyDeleteBuilding news, ratfaces!
Where's EJ?
ReplyDeleteand what exactly do you mean by ratfaces no one cares about that
ReplyDeleteHey NJ rocks, Look at yesterday's message for you that was sent late in the day. Let's get a response!!
ReplyDeleteJust wondering if TB of the Statehouse Bureau landed anywhere? Maybe back at the Trentoid? Anyone know?
ReplyDeleteIs anyone optimistic about the GCI stock I think it will close under 3 dollars
ReplyDeleteNote that Steve Breen, who first won a Pulitzer for his Asbury Park Press cartoons, today won his second (for San Diego). Ah, memories of when the APP strived for greatness! Actually, the same year Breen won for APP, 1998, the paper was also a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing (Steve Giegerich, now with St. Louis).
ReplyDeleteAre Breens drawings still up in the cafe in Neptune?
ReplyDelete10:13 AM... Sorry you are getting a "bunch of juvenile BS" however that is exactly what the NJ Group newspapers have become. There are some few talented writers, but everything else has gone to hell!
ReplyDeleteYour former colleagues may no longer be here. If they are, chances are they suffer the paranoia created by corporate-- that their jobs are always on the line and they may not have a job at the whim of editors and publishers and advertising directors they don't suck up to enough! Don't know which newspaper you left, but the CN is a mess and its partially relocated staff is doing everything possible to infest the HNT. The Courier Post is a "hot bed of discontent" and Vineland is hardly ever mentioned on here. The Daily Record is a sorry excuse for a newspaper. The Asbury Park Press is in danger of completely falling into the Atlantic Ocean, and there are not too many readers or employees who would really care.
Any more questions?
Dear Readers/Friends:
ReplyDeleteMany of you may be familiar with the new Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan. He is a charming and funny man who might be just what the lethargic church in NY needs. However I want to share a thought a priest made about him-- since he isn't committed to changing any of the really big problems in the Catholic Church.
I share this ONLY because it can apply to many in leadership at Gannett (Skippy, just to name one).
"THEY CAN TELL YOU TO GO TO HELL IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY MAKE YOU LOOK FORWARD TO THE TRIP."
Mr. von Beaverbottom and I wished we had been wearing diapers to church when the priest made that comment.
H
PS-- I did want to take a moment to thank Jimmy Hopkins for enduring all the crapola he gets on the national blog. Why they give him trouble, I do not know. Were he not "taken" I would be after this Woof! (I'm blushing).
There should be absolutely no one complaining on the NJ blog - especially if you still have a job. It things are so bad here, give your job to someone who was laid off - I live with one of them and they'd be happy to come back. Maybe you people should stop hiding behind the computer games all day on your work computers (why those in power aren't cracking down on this, I don't know), and you lousy salespeople should try to get out on the road and sell some ads. Whatda you think - that they are coming to you? I don't care what property you are from. I am tired of all the bullshit and the complaining.
ReplyDeleteI can't speak for anyone else but Meredith please come back!
ReplyDeleteNo one can infest the Home News. It was already infested. It doesn't matter what department you are referring to - the whole place needs to be gutted. Sending CN people there was the best thing that could have happened.
ReplyDeleteThen you get a job trying to sell adds in papers that less people really could give two shits about
ReplyDeleteThe Asbury Park Press is in danger of completely falling into the Atlantic Ocean, and there are not too many readers or employees who would really care.
ReplyDeleteWell I know how to swim.....
To 8:25 PM-- Well, who spit in your oatmeal? "No one should be complaining" is a point though. Instead of complaining, we should have protested vehemently, formed unions, demanded a grievance process, voted against exhorbitant executive salaries.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry your spouse is no longer with Gannett ONLY because you infer that he/she wants to be there. Many, many employees who have been let go are feeling the very harsh financial effects. At the same time, the majority feel a great sense of relief (mixed with anger) being removed from the degrading treatment they received from the moral paragons of virtue at Gannett.
If 8:31 is referring to the Meredith from the CN-- by all means we wish you were back with all the others listed below!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately,all of you were too smart, too old, too outspoken, too friendly, too honest
As long as well live, we will remember them:
Denise
Don
Rich
Wendy
Mark
Kay
Randy
Nafeisa
Judy S. and Judy R.
Patti
Kristin
Lisa
Jodi
Dottie
Manyee
Bob
Mamie
(even) Linda
Adrienne
Phyllis
Doris
Luis
Stu
Clarence
The Press Room
Melissa
Jeff
Erikka
Joe L. (who outsmarted them!!!)
The nameless delivery people
The list doesn't end there! Please add on those I have forgotten.
We hope that all of those who coldly and dispassionately made the choices sleep well at night. While you still have prescription coverage, stock up on Ambien!
The last real laugh is taking a good look at what you have left to run your paper into the ground.
The job ain't the same with you all. We hate hate hate it that this has happened to our paper. Miss everyone even in the worst of times. Don't care what anyone says. Long live the spirit of the Courier News staff and damn the powers that be to hell!
ReplyDeleteTo 9:53 p.m.
ReplyDeleteAs one of the names on your list of departed employees, I want to thank you for remembering all of us. I am in contact with several former employees and I can tell you we all miss the former CN. It's hard to drive by that empty building on Route 22 and not think about our former co-workers. The Bridgewater site was a great place to work and I think the majority of us loved our jobs. I remember the deadlines and stress, but I also remember the sense of humor and laughter. We were a family of hard workers who thought we could accomplish anything. Too bad we couldn't save the paper.
Thanks 9:53 and 11:34,while we couldn't save the paper we can save the memories and you're right, there were a lot of good people I will always remember and good times that I won't ever forget. The building is sold but the spirit lives on!
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