Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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ReplyDeleteIf Doc Brown knocked on your door and gave you the chance to go back and change only 1 event at your NJ property that led to it's (internal, not macro level events like recession, internet competition) demise, what would it be?
ReplyDeleteOh man, a quarter to one and only one comment, and that was deleted. Jim, I think it's time to pull the plug.
ReplyDeleteKetan Gandhi. That would be the event I would prevent.
ReplyDeleteIwould have stopped Gannett from buying "ASBURY PARK PRESS"back in 1997
ReplyDeletekeep this thread goin!
ReplyDeleteit will catch on...
1:22 -- Correct. That was the event that led to the end of the HNT. He's the one who combined the CN and HNT and ultimately -- with Skippy's blessing -- allowed the snake to swallow the elephant. It meant -- and means -- the end of both papers.
ReplyDeleteGhandi is the one who created the financial problems the HNT still struggles with. He's also the one who so badly damaged the paper's rep.
ReplyDeleteAt 12:15 PM the question is asked about one internal event at a NJ property that led to it's (sic) demise.
ReplyDeleteQuite obviously, at the CN the problem was years and years of mediocre leadership FOLLOWED BY
totally incompetent and inferior ledership now. In all due respect, this does not refer to Skippy. He walked in as the captain of a sinking ship. Look to what passes for writing skill on the editorial level now. Who wants to pay for this kind of nonsense and high school level journalism???
would be the APP print shop fiasco and B.Collins
ReplyDeleteToday's C-N faux pas: A story about 21 dead polo ponies in Florida appears twice -- first in Daily Briefing and again in sports agate.
ReplyDelete4/21/2009 2:39 PM,
ReplyDeletethat sounds like the courier post.
The references to Gandhi are totally accurate, but they fail to emphasize what a egomaniac he was and how very poorly he treated just about everyone at both papers! He was known for making people cry, ridiculing them, telling them to "shut up" at meetings. He truly considered himself the king and all the employees his slaves. Even Mr. Grzella, who is known for sucking up to all management at Gannett, was so overjoyed he pranced around the newsroom when Gandhi disappeared. Does anyone know what really happened to him? The theories are fascinating, but we were just never told!
ReplyDeleteI think you misunderstood my meaning, "Ketan Gandhi. That would be the event I would prevent." Read it again and take it literally. If you prevent conception...you prevent all the other misdeeds. Now do you get it.
ReplyDelete3:41 Gandhi is at Philly News. I've been tracking him....he may yet be of use.
ReplyDeleteIt is a terrible shame that Plangere & Lass' Paper has been sucked dry and destroyed by flawed Gannett strategic thinking AND the likes of Ketan & Patton (little-Bobby C.) and others. My late-Grandmother subscribed since the late-1940s; she noticed such a big decline in quality - and that was a few years ago.
Katen may have intimidated and upset many people; but one person accidently threw a curve ball and stopped him dead in his tracks and made him ....."Nervous."
Whatever you say about the little guy, you have to admit....he had nice shirts!
Anyone ever realize that Bob Collins, Katen Gandhi & Gary DiSanto together would make a funny Gannett-version of Manny, Moe & Jack.
Tomlinson would not have sold the Daily Record -- it was a great, great regional paper under Tomlinson, where enterprise reporting served the public good and we bagged tons of NPJA editorial awards. The newsroom vets have suffered so much staying on thru Gannett, sacrificing advancement to larger papers to continue serving Morris County residents.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that Mark Frisby walked away from NJ. For all his detractors, Mark's a guy that really "got it" and worked with people ... in the end, he was a fair, decent guy ... It's a shame he got lumped into the Collins/Ghandi/DeSanto crowd ...
ReplyDelete5:02 PM....sorry if I misunderstood! I think that Ketan was undoubtedly aggressive and obnoxious back in the old country.
ReplyDeleteThe only change we could have made was abortion, and that's difficult once they are screaming and out of the womb.
Scandaloooooose!
ReplyDeleteAll of Gandhi's shirts were made in America! Oh, to recall the rejoicing on the morning it was announced that he had departed for parts unknown. We weren't even sure whether it was a hoax or not until the exterminators came. The tears of Thorne that day made it appear that her rosacea had flared up again!
In Gandhi's parting words: "Gannett has been velly, velly good to me."
Puhhhleeeeasee. It's nice to see your visiting the site from time to time Mark Frisby. Frisby was and is a total Ahole who brags to anyone who will listen about his close personal friendship with his mentor Bobby Collins. He sold his sole (or maybe his colon) to Collins and never looked back. The guy is without question the worst publisher and human being I've ever come in contact with. If I was Doc Brown, first, I'd turn the clock back to when Collins old man polished off the moonshine and was preparing to make the semen deposit that gave us collins. If he couldn't do that, I'd turn the clock back and put an umbrella on Frisby's old man's unit!
ReplyDelete12:15 p.m., I'd have to say it's the day EJ Mitchell took the helm in Cherry Hill.
ReplyDeleteMark Frisby was just as much of a d*ck as Collins, assisting in the Gannett reign of terror when they bought the APP. Thanks to Frisby we had to put up with lunatics like Laura Parker.
ReplyDeleteI hope Plangere and Lass get the chance to see how their once proud family business was destroyed, and the lives of the people that work(ed) there.
They ought to be ashamed.