tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post2767571464497093453..comments2023-11-05T06:26:51.316-05:00Comments on Gannett Blog: USAT | Q3 ad page count virtually unchangedJim Hopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712746705871119746noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-13705405354953509512010-10-19T17:05:11.420-04:002010-10-19T17:05:11.420-04:00Jim Gath! I remember the man well. Big office, r...Jim Gath! I remember the man well. Big office, round table, TV on but always on mute, snoop dog videos playing, new ideas flowing everyday, tons of money being generated for print.....thems were the days!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-72682076837536688252010-10-19T14:39:14.163-04:002010-10-19T14:39:14.163-04:0012:26 - Yep - Go hard or go home. No doubt. Sound...12:26 - Yep - Go hard or go home. No doubt. Sounds like a culture around there now wherein failure is an option. Only one way out of it - sell your friggin' way out of it - no matter what it takes. Sell newspapers - figure it out! Sell advertising - figure it out! Get some hunter/killers in there that know how to do that. Make the newspaper MEAN something to somebody. Anybody. Then, Tierra Madre Horse Sanctuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020917864270864953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-45460743153147570022010-10-19T12:26:35.705-04:002010-10-19T12:26:35.705-04:00Jim Gath,
Agree with you brother. Go hard or go h...Jim Gath,<br />Agree with you brother. Go hard or go home, right? The good old days are soooo long gone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-56224012116398929332010-10-19T03:46:36.520-04:002010-10-19T03:46:36.520-04:0010:07: USAT's not running scared; it wants to ...10:07: USAT's not running scared; it wants to please the Tea Party crowd and Liberal crowd's AD DOLLAR simultaneously. Editorial and stories have to remain grey and bland to do that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-4220876218945572562010-10-18T22:07:36.156-04:002010-10-18T22:07:36.156-04:00USAT wasn't conceived of or designed to be man...USAT wasn't conceived of or designed to be managed or populated by wimps. It was audacious from the get-go & everything worked on a hurry-up offense that refused to take prisoners. Somewhere along the line, that attitude was forsaken. It became genteel. And it lost the fire. And it got a soft underbelly.<br /><br />Oh, it's salvageable - but only with....ah, never mind. All of Tierra Madre Horse Sanctuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020917864270864953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-90796917977732419062010-10-18T09:41:52.474-04:002010-10-18T09:41:52.474-04:00The nation's newspaper needed to weather the s...The nation's newspaper needed to weather the storm in order to be competitively situated once the economy bounced back. However, USAT chiefs panicked and degraded their own product. They didn't have the stomach to accept lower profits for awhile. So they sold their soul, threw loyal and contributing employees overboard, and destroyed the reputation of a brand that took a couple decades toAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-48594803911912083202010-10-17T23:37:59.304-04:002010-10-17T23:37:59.304-04:00Yes,something is terribly wrong. There's a lac...Yes,something is terribly wrong. There's a lack of leadership at corporate. It has spread to the rest of the company. Perhaps nowhere is it more pronounced than the the flagship.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-39260112096158406292010-10-17T20:50:55.973-04:002010-10-17T20:50:55.973-04:00This chart tells me everything about the ill healt...This chart tells me everything about the ill health at USA Today. In spite of discounts and special deals the ad department is offering, ad pages are down at record lows. Something is going terribly wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com