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There's a pretty good chance Gannett will make its annual executive pay report public today, possibly after 4 p.m. ET. It's called the shareholders proxy statement, a public document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFD8x_O1Fq0
ReplyDeleteGannett Gotterdammerung goes Hawaiian!
When will there be news about Q2 furloughs in community pub division?
ReplyDeletere:Gannett Gotterdammerung goes Hawaiian!
ReplyDeleteDead on. All the way down to the bit about iPhones and video being shot.
What furloughs? What layoffs? Mr. Dickey told me we get raises again!
ReplyDeleteOh happy day, I look forward to my next review and maybe a nice fat 1.5% in my stocking. I know each week of furlough lops off 1.92% for the year, but just think, next year this time I could be making almost as much as I was two years ago, inflation adjusted.
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ReplyDeleteShould be an interesting week for the stock, particularly Wed-Fri. Should be some visibility finally on 1Q revenues vs last year. I wouldn't be surprised to see the stock move 10% one way or the other this week.
ReplyDeleteFurlough announcement made for community newspapers in q2. Affects upper income employees, but most of the copy editing and high-paid employees in our shop aleady laid off.
ReplyDelete9:01 a.m.: Are these the furloughs that only affect those making $90,000 and up? That would be similar to the furloughs announced by USA Today, which cover all employees at that paper -- many, many of whom make $90,000 or more.
ReplyDeleteGee, if Gannett's keeps the $90K salary cutoff for Q2 in place in perpetuity, and I keep getting 2% raises, it will start to affect me when I'm 174!
ReplyDeleteI better start planning for it.
Now I understand why my boss seemed POed yesterday.
ReplyDeleteCONFIDENTIAL
ReplyDeleteCONTAINS PROPRIETARY BUSINESS INFORMATION - NOT FOR PUBLIC DISSEMINATION
March 16, 2010
To: All U.S. Community Publishing employees
From: Bob Dickey
I am pleased to share some very good news with you today.
Thanks to your ongoing efforts to manage our business well and focus on executing against our key priorities, we are heading into the second quarter with good momentum. Because of this, I am happy to let you know that U.S. Community Publishing will not have any furloughs this year in the second quarter. Additionally, we do not have any division-wide lay-offs planned. I know this has been a question on many people’s minds, so I hope this eases those concerns. As announced earlier, we will continue to roll out the two Gannett Production Centers throughout 2010 with a planned finish date of early 2011.
As I noted in an email to all USCP employees a few weeks ago, our division’s performance is improving and we are on track for the first quarter. We are experiencing ongoing favorable trends in many key areas of our business including: retail, employment and automotive advertising; profitability of our non-daily products continues to improve; and Sunday home delivery volumes are growing which is one of our key goals for the year. Our Audience Aggregation strategy continues to be a success with digital audiences growing and online revenues will post year-over-year gains in the first quarter. Most importantly, we continue to publish outstanding journalism across U.S. Community Publishing.
Looking forward, we need to keep in mind that the economy continues to be fragile so it is essential that we remain vigilant in our efforts to manage costs and continue to create greater efficiencies in all that we do.
I know that many of the steps we continue to take to improve our business and achieve operational efficiencies have not been easy, but they are necessary to remain a strong and stable company. I sincerely thank you for all you do to serve our readers and customers.
As always, please feel free to email me with any questions or ideas about our business. My email address is rdickey@gannett.com.
Regards,
Bob
About time the prima donnas at USA Today felt some of the pain the rest of us are feeling.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm confused: Dickey's memo says no furloghs. Gannettoid says furloughs for $90K annual wage and higher employees. What's going on?
ReplyDeleteIt could be the difference between USCP staff and corporate paid staff.
ReplyDeleteThe company line is Moms Like Me is a big success, but it seems like a dud at my Gannett site. Many of the posts are written by staff people. Do they really make money off this abomination?
ReplyDeleteJim, Gannettoid's info was just wrong. No furloughs anywhere Q2. No layoffs other than those that will result from the consolidations that will continue to move forward.
ReplyDeleteHadn't they previously announced a furlough for both 1Q and 2Q? So they are rescinding the 2Q one? Or I'm just mis-remembering?
ReplyDelete8:06 pm: Corporate previously announced furloughs only for the first quarter.
ReplyDelete5 ad creators were notified today that they will keep their jobs at Florida Today. The remaining 10 or so, will be let go sometime in May. This is due to the GPC consolidation.
ReplyDelete7:50 pm: Thanks for the clarification.
ReplyDeleteI am happy there will be no weeks without pay, but when in the hell are they going to add to the already skeleton staff? The moral is at the lowest it has ever been in years. Very talented young people are ready to jump ship and take lower paying jobs to escape the insanity. Many have already taken better paying jobs and the ones that are left are miserable. Dickey, if you are reading this blog— why not reward the remaining workers with some type of incentive. Otherwise, I can tell you the talent you retain will be gone. We cannot handle this sweat shop mentality. It can only go on for so long. The middle management are working normal hours and dumping all the work on the workers and expecting them to do all their work while they get the bonus! There is going to be people jumping ship very soon and I'm one of them. I have many irons in the fire and currently hold other jobs besides Gannett. When you are worked to the bone and not appreciated, there is really no reason to stay. Yes, there is a recession, but the higher ups are receiving their bonuses and we get some stupid HR program to promote moral with gifts we currently give our customers. We want a percentage of what we sell — WE DESERVE MORE than this!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately Jim, like the newspapers, no one is going to pay
ReplyDeletefor content online. Unless you prove yourself to have all of
the inside information, no one is going to pay for your content.
Someone else will offer it for free. A very small percentage
of readers and especially laid off employees are going to pay
to read about Gannett or any other blog. As stated, the reporting
must be over and above that of anything they can access online.
just a heads up
@11:23
ReplyDeleteAt my newsroom, there is no "middle management." Salaried people regularly put in 50 or 60 hours a week. Hourly people, closer to 40, because the company keeps a relatively close eye on overtime.
The workload has always been extreme for hourly journalists at my paper. Like you, I am weighing my options.
12:45 a.m. is spot on. I always wondered what was meant by "middle" management. Many of the managers, including me, at my newspaper work horrific hours and shifts and days. I almost killed myself before and after my furlough (especially the latest one with bare bones coverage due to layoffs) just to keep everything in line for my co-workers. I'm so exhausted and stressed I can barely function some days.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I do resent some day managers who waltz in and work 8-5 then get to go home to dinner with their families and also have the weekends off.
And yes, I am weighing my options.
@11:23 and 12:45:
ReplyDeleteI agree that some of the so-called middle managers work harder than anybody (I'm not one of them). At my property, however, the well-compensated executive editor is almost never seen working an extra hour.
And you are all spot on about what is happening to this company. The best people will jump ship the minute they find another opportunity. I used to routinely work 55- and 60-hour weeks because I loved the job. Now, it's all I can do just to show up and slog through the day. In fact, rarely a day goes by where I don't consider packing up my things and leaving ... even without another job. Concern for my family prevents me from doing this, but I would take a significant paycheck just to get the hell out.
Sorry Mr. Dickey. Reinstating raises and losing second quarter furloughs is too little, too late. Your staff has already jumped ship (some physically, most mentally).
If you're hoping to build a great content generation company with those of us you have left, good luck. You've got a bunch of beaten down people who no longer have any company loyalty. Nothing short of a management change from top to bottom could salvage things for me.
The Gannett mentality is to not give a damn about the workers at the individual papers. Those suits in Virginia are way too many and do very little of value and there are too many of them. Here's an idea for Dickey, send out the suits from HQ into the field for a 6 month run in the real world to work in the newsroom, selling ads and doing the production of the papers and at the salary grades paid at the papers. If any of them fail to perform up to required standards, then get rid of them and not go back to their cushy jobs in Virginia. How about that?
ReplyDelete2:27 PM
ReplyDeleteI think that is a wonderful idea. The company could take bets on which ones will make it and which ones will fail. I'm betting all of them would fail.
It appears my comments about the horrific morale that occupies Gannett sites has hit a nerve. Agreed — we are burned out, mentally gone and just do our job like any assembly line worker would. The cookie cutter mentality of corporate has destroyed any creativity any of us had. We are all ready to walk out for any job just to escape the insanity. Yes, we all continue to do our jobs but at what cost? We lost the love, the thrill of working for a newspaper. We loved our jobs, were excited to go to work everyday — but that has all been taken away. We are not angry any longer we are now apathetic. If one more person leaves in my department, I too will walk out. I'll survive, like all of us will. It's very scary I know but we all reach a point where enough is enough. I am very grateful to have a job, but at some point I will have to weight having one and being happy.
ReplyDelete2:27 c'mon, it's hard enough to ignore all the freekin emails to set up dog and pony shows and still find a way to make a profit.
ReplyDeleteIf they sit in house for six months swilling all our fancy Shardoughnay, how are we supposed to bring in the cotton on time?
What a bunch of freaking losers! "I'm going walk." "I'm not taking this any more." We've lost 1000s of colleagues. Most would gladly take your place. So get out big shots. Let someone who wants to work come back. I am so tired of the losers who won't change, won't recognize the good when it happens and ALWAYS look for the dark side. No you are complainung that they've taken away your unpaid furlough. Pleeeeeease! Unbelievable.
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ReplyDeleteSounds like a reality show in the making. Gannett could market it, giving the company another cash cow. Win-win.
If there are no longer any "operations" at the Journal News, White Plains, New York, ( now printing at a non-gannett site in Rockaway,New Jersey) Why is there a VP of Operations ?
ReplyDeleteNo operations at the Journal News! VP in place there! Well, sounds like a candidate for working at Gannett in Virginia...High paying job with nothing (of value) to do.
ReplyDeleteI would like to disagree with the poster who said that the 1,000s laidoff Gannetteers would love to trade places with those still there. Getting out, even without another job waiting for me, was the best move I ever made.
ReplyDeleteAt least Dubow is doing well financially, which is amazing after he was out for months...
12:42:
ReplyDeleteIf there was a way for me to trade places with a laid off employee, I would gladly do it. There's something to be said for doing something that you believe in and in general happiness.
Why don't I just quit? Because I wouldn't qualify for unemployment and I would have to pay horrendous rates for my health insurance.
Am I a long-term benefit to the company? Absolutely not. Do I care? Hell no. Do I still do my job at a higher level than many of my colleagues while I'm looking for other work? Yes.
What you are failing to see is that many of us are in this position because of just how crappy Gannett management is. The company could have offered site-wide buyouts, assuring that those of us who really wanted out went first. The managers could have paid attention and cut the people who were willing to go. Instead, in typical Gannett fashion, the managers laid out a flawed master plan, and they now have an embittered and angry workforce because of it.
I'm glad you're happy making less money than you did three years ago while Dumbow rakes in millions. I'm glad you are at peace working for a marketing company that doesn't give shit about news anymore. I'm glad that you can so easily look at your colleagues and call them losers because they don't meet your lofty standards.
Truth is everyone who's still in this business is a loser because many of us aren't trained for other work and the industry is in compression mode.
You should be pleased that so many of us want other work. It may allow you to stay in the job that you apparently still enjoy.
Webcast starting, linked from front page of www.gannett.com. . . .
ReplyDeleteyear-over-year revenue for CP still down about 4.5%. That's a bit of a disappointment.
ReplyDeleteTV going gangbusters tho --up mid-teens.
10:53 my issue is with posters who proclaim to the world that they are fed up and ready to elave. My retort...get the F _ _ _ out! If you are going to big a big shot and tell everyone that you are so out of here, then get out. You're a loser and quite frankly I don't want to be around you. The truth is they are trying to get out but no one will hire them because their personaly negativity is evident to anyone who speaks with them. These folks were negative during goods times and bad. Get the F out.
ReplyDelete@ 1:57 p.m. - If you haven't been there, then please shut your yap. I opted out and was worried about finding other work however I had made lots of contacts and friends while at Gannett because I am a thorough reporter. It took a few weeks however I have been happily working since the fall and feel for my former colleagues who feel trapped at thankless jobs yet who cannot leave for financial reasons.
ReplyDelete1:57 thanks for your scintillating thoughts.
ReplyDeleteWhile we ponder the eternal wisdom of your words, feel free to return to beating your husband or whatever you normally do to get rid of that anger you feel towards totally anonymous strangers.
The truth is they are trying to get out but no one will hire them because their personaly negativity is evident to anyone who speaks with them. These folks were negative during goods times and bad. Get the F out.
ReplyDelete3/18/2010 1:57 PM
Wow, I am stunned at this stupidity. Here bonuses are handed out like cookies to people who are not even on the job (ie. the CEO of Gannett)and this poster obviously thinks that's ok. Pay cuts, lay offs, health insurance rates rising, furloughs and no severance payments any more just to stuff more money into the pockets of management than necessary. Heck, the company even pays for golf outings and funeral attendance for Bob Dickey (after he was outed on the blog they made him pay real quick - otherwise it would have been "overlooked") and here we have somebody who judges us based on "negativity"???? Sorry, pal, but your reasoning just doesn't jive. But then - ignorance is bliss as they say!
You must be one of them that when the waves roll over your head you can't see the water. LOL! Well, plenty of them left at corporate - so don't get your panties all in a bunch.
It only makes sense if you are management yourself. And then your abusive statements make perfect sense. This is the cockamanie bs we've been fed for years and guess what: The party goes only so far (until the money well runs dry) and this bonus issue just escalates it.
Where I work, we were told we could ask questions any time, AND IF THE TIME WAS RIGHT, he would answer them truthfully. I guess that means if the time ISN'T RIGHT he won't? We keep asking questions and getting run around answers when WE KNOW THEY KNOW! But the time isn't right FOR THE TRUTH, so guess what?
ReplyDeleteAnd 1:57, I KNOW what kind of worker you are. The kind that comes in blowing out his a** about all he (or she) knows, AND REALLY KNOWS NOT A DAMN THING AND EXPECTS SOMEBODY ELSE TO DO IT FOR HIM! "Why won't YOU do it? It would be so much easier if you/your department did it cause I'm so overworked" (wiping imaginary sweat off his brow) and coming up with every excuse in the book as to why HE shouldn't/couldn't do it. YOU ARE THE LOSER IF YOU THINK THIS IS A GREAT COMPANY! IT IS OBSCENE AND VILE!
This little kitty says: F!@# Corporate Gannett & their Big Raises and Bonuses. Unemployment barely pays for my cat chow and kitty litter. Oh wait, it does not. I depend on the generosity of others, my UI barely pays the utilities and other bills. Sorry... I think the cat nip is getting to me! I need a job.
ReplyDeleteThe gist of an amusing e-mail sent to some Wisconsin sites on Thursday from a panicked IT person: Stop streaming the NCAA basketball tournament to your desktops! You're maxing out our network capacity. Get off my lawn, too.
ReplyDeleteMy oh my are we all getting increasingly feisty! I'm out and have been for months. Still kinda miss my job but I don't miss the company. I am love, love, loving it! Got some crappy PT job doing something else and look forward to looking for work when I'm ready. There really IS life after Gannett!
ReplyDeleteI have to support 1:57. They are spot on right. It is so easy in an interview to get someone to trash their previous employer if they already have a bad attitude. It doesn't matter if they are justified or not, it shows a lack of prefessionism and that attitude will carry forward or there will be an entitlement mentailty. That is a good way to avoid making a poor hire.
ReplyDeleteNow go ahead and trash me!
"prefessionism" ??????????????????????????
ReplyDeleteWHY is no one posting anything about how the ad consolidations are going? Is it because the only people left are the sheep? NO-ONE is saying how good or badly it is going, if the ads are getting back late, NOTHING! Why is that? Is it because the only one's left at each site are manager's who are terrified of losing their lucrative jobs? All the regular worker bees were let go? Or what?
ReplyDelete@ 7:11 a.m. I have never trashed Gannett during any of my interviews, and I have had several interviews. I liked my coworkers and editors and know that what happened at our site wasn't their fault. It's too bad they got caught with no say in the matter, and several of them gave me great references. It's also too bad the company tried to pit us against one another.
ReplyDeleteRe: trashing GCI during interviews. I've never done it, nor is there a need to do it, because GCI's reputation in the metro Washington, DC area is mud. All the local employers and HR departments already know it and are aware of its poor management and Board.
ReplyDelete7:11 -- I don't think many people out there are trashing GCI in interviews. The reason many newspaper folk are having a hard time getting other jobs is because there are far fewer positions this year than last, and the profession is continuing to shrink.
ReplyDeleteAlso, if you were hired 10 or more years ago there's a very good chance that switching jobs will mean a pay cut. I'm not sure what 1:57's situation is, but he/she sounds like one of the young turks who thinks he/she will always be OK because he/she is so smart and has such a good attitude.
The trouble is, life changes as you grow older. At some point, you decide you want to be better compensated for your time and experience, and you have responsibilities to others around you. So you may not be able to leave a decent-paying job for something that pays considerably less just because you're pissed.
I would take a pay cut to leave Gannett, but it would have to be within reason. I'm not going to default on all my bills and declare bankruptcy just to get out. That said, taking a 10 percent cut in pay to work for a better company would be a no brainer. But even those jobs are hard to find these days.
Negativity is a bad thing, but this company breeds it. There's one common denominator to all the angry people who post to this blog: Gannett.
So, defend it if you must. But a company that cared about retaining its employees would be concerned about what goes on here.
I'm still waiting to hear from someone (anyone!) what Jack Williams actually does....
ReplyDeleteAfter 27 years of working for a Gannett-owned newspaper, I "volunteered" to be laid off early in 2009 because I couldn't stand working for incompetent bosses and I didn't want a younger colleague with a family to support to lose his job involuntarily.
ReplyDeleteI struggled for several months, at one point taking a job as a Walmart "greeter" (really!). But now I have found a job with a local company that puts my writing ability to good use and, best of all, allows me to again feel good about what I do.
My paycheck isn't quite as large as it used to be, but my life has been enriched in other ways: No worrying about what the corporate goons and loons back in McLean might be thinking or plotting. No fear of furloughs or layoffs. No feeling of guilt over shortchanging the customers. I actually enjoy coming to the office again every morning.
There is life after Gannett. Try it -- you'll like it!
to 5:30 pm:
ReplyDeleteDon't make the mistake of thinking you don't need to worry about a layoff at another job. UNless you have some sort of contract beware because things change.
Am I the only one out there who actually looked forward to furlough days. For me, it's extra vacation, a time to get away from everything. I was really counting on a second quarter furlough and already had plans. Now I am told I can't have one. It's crazy, but I liked them.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one out there who actually looked forward to furlough days. For me, it's extra vacation, a time to get away from everything. I was really counting on a second quarter furlough and already had plans. Now I am told I can't have one. It's crazy, but I liked them.
3/20/2010 1:29 PM
I guess you could afford the furlough? I knew people who could (at the site for years and made good money) and they would go on vacation, while I sat home feeling like a failure. :( Now that I was laid off in July, I still have feelings of failure at times. Still unemployed and still loathing this company that is really the failure. Gannett failed you, me and everyone that worked there and still works there. ;)
Ad consolidation started on Friday at Wilmington. Monday will be the “live” day. Cannot report anything until then. It appears there are eight other papers that have gone live, but no news about them. Will report next week to let you know how things go. I imagine it will be quite insane for quite a while. I recommend any paper that is next to put all your advertisers in a row and offer your services on a freelance basis. From what I have seen the advertisers will not be happy with this and will want someone who can offer them a personal touch rather than having their ad put with thousands of others. This is going to be a total failure for Gannett
ReplyDeleteHi Krayolakat, thanks for your postings. I feel for you in your position, and I do appreciate your candor and insight and lack of bitterness regarding what happened to you.
ReplyDeletePlease have faith that you will find your true calling in life, and soon. It sucks what Gannett has done to those of us who felt journalism was our true calling.
I truly wish you all the best!
Just to be clear, USA Today has suffered a lot of layoffs and furloughs, just as the community papers have. That is not to say there isn't still a disproportionate number of highly overpaid but mediocre employees there. I honestly have no clue as to what some of them do. At the same time, I know some of the people who have left (on their own or otherwise) actually worked fairly hard and were productive people. A lot has changed, none of it for the better. The sense of professionalism and pride that once existed has been diluted.
ReplyDeletelawsuits, and lots of them, will mark the end of Gannett. a media business can't function for long with a skeleton staff, low morale and few resources. the good enough is good enough mentality will yield tons of problems for the company. i've believed that all along, and i actually was not at all surprised to read about that ad problem in Cincy. i'd be willing to bet the poor attorneys are busier than ever defending something that is simply beyond defense. there's no defense for carelessness in the news business.
ReplyDeleteHi Krayolakat, I also couldn't afford furlough days yet had to take them. I looked for temp work during that time yet there were probably other people with the same idea so it was a wasted week for me. Vacation? Fat chance. I wasn't afforded the luxury of spending time with frinends, either, because they were at their jobs. As for feeling like a failure, I heard somewhere that rejection is God's protection. Not to wax religious, just to say I consider it a blessing that I'm no longer at Gannett, given the climate now.
ReplyDeleteI also loved the furlough days and regarded them as vacation time. I am going to miss those days when I could forget about the insane story ides, the pablum that fills the paper today, the posturing ass-kissing executives, and the atmosphere of fear that corporate has imposed on all of us. Those days off were fantastic.
ReplyDeleteHave to say that I am going to miss furloughs. I had plans for Florida next month.
ReplyDeleteI've read so much about folks in their 50s having nowhere to go after being laid off. This is particularly true for newspaper people. Gannett should have done more to protect these folks who were either laid off or pushed out.
ReplyDeleteMany of those who were let go were still valuable employees with vast institutional knowledge at the time of their dismissal. In many cases, their only sin was that they had performed well over the years, got their raises but in the end made too much money in the eyes of some bean counter or manager who would get a gold star for laying off seasoned employees. In a way, they were victims of their own success and abilities. Very tragic and shortsighted that those were the first people Gannett axed.
In a recession, with a dying industry looming, how did Gannett bosses think these people would land on their feet? Worse, how did Gannett believe losing so many mentors would be good for training up-and-coming workers?
I know far too many talented former colleagues who aren't working because Gannett threw them out at the worst possible time in their lives and careers. I often wished that I left this company while the gettin' was good, when I was younger and sought after by other companies. This company does not treat people over 50 very well unless they are in very high positions. Unfortunately, most of us are learning that too late.
While some seasoned ex-Gannettoids have survived, I am sensing others are about to give up based on comments here and what I've heard from a few former coworkers. Honestly, I don't know what to tell them. I know it's not always feasible to retrain at 50something. I know the responsibilities one has at that stage of life are different than when you're in your mid 20s. There often isn't the time to reinvent oneself. Resources might be limited.
All I can hope for is that some enlightened companies will see the value these former newspaper folks could provide. They have great work ethics -- a fairly common trait of news people. They'd be well worth hiring.
Newspaper work is unlike many professions, so I can imagine the sense of loss someone feels when they are forced out at an age when doors are closed to experienced professionals. Sadly, I would never recommend this business to anyone considering a career in the media. I've seen to many horrible and premature endings to careers and sometimes lives. I certainly would tell them to steer clear of Gannett in particular, not because laying off people is unique to Gannett, but because of the way Gannett approached layoffs, particularly the early rounds where age discrimination was obviously in play.
I did my part to put a dent in the age discrimination pratices at Gannett. The EEOC did its part. Did you do your part? If you were discriminated against based on your age and you're over 40, quit posting the sob stories on here and start posting some success stories about how you did your part to end age discrimination. I know its hard. It was for me. I never wanted to be labeled a troublemaker because I'm not. The best thing I ever did was call this company out on what I believe was a decision based only on age. I only wish I still worked there. I'd burn the EEOC line up with complaints, and at layoff time, dare them to retaliate by kicking me to the curb. Gannett, I think, has enough subtle discrimination going on IN WRITING on its site (all that young this and new that)to make anyone older than 40 feel like shit. We have a generation war going on in workplaces everywhere. Fellow Boomers, this is our last stand. Call the EEOC or get an attorney right now.
ReplyDeleteIf the greedy bastards can enrich the CEO and his cronies, they can go after sites that don't credit a Gannett paper or TV station on a story.
ReplyDeleteLast weekend at a Walmart in Turnersville, New Jersey, a man got on the PA and told all black people to leave. The Courier-Post in nearby Cherry Hill broke the story. NBC's Philadelphia station picked it up and included a link to the Courier-Post account. MorningNewsbeat.com, a one-man-band site based in Connecticut, cited only "published reports" and didn't bother to credit the Courier-Post nor link to the original story.