tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post847058966386364125..comments2023-11-05T06:26:51.316-05:00Comments on Gannett Blog: March 5-11 | Your News & Comments: Part 6Jim Hopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712746705871119746noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-41631117217200997442012-03-12T08:43:22.608-04:002012-03-12T08:43:22.608-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-91038671970536314752012-03-12T07:42:40.128-04:002012-03-12T07:42:40.128-04:00What's Leslie Giolambardo doing these days? Is...What's Leslie Giolambardo doing these days? Is she still with Gannett?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-44244159300598155132012-03-12T02:40:02.409-04:002012-03-12T02:40:02.409-04:00So has anyone filed for unemployment during a furl...So has anyone filed for unemployment during a furlough week this quarter? Did it go through? What's the maximum benefit allowed by your state?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-56086803466331007122012-03-12T00:56:34.290-04:002012-03-12T00:56:34.290-04:00I'm a blogger (don't all throw stuff til I...I'm a blogger (don't all throw stuff til I'm done) & today our Editorial Board at the Courier-Journal continued on with a position that the majority of our city has no interest in. The board is advocating, like a mercenary really, the building of an additional downtown bridge when the great majority of residents of the city only want an East End bridge. <br />To pay for the Curtis Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11576604647744032229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-33901073027876041272012-03-12T00:31:53.613-04:002012-03-12T00:31:53.613-04:00Hmm, and without 37 vice-presidents in the buildin...Hmm, and without 37 vice-presidents in the building, we turn a profit. But what the hell do we know, we're just a little ol newspaper & website in the bottom 25%.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-7016911269187130802012-03-12T00:31:32.705-04:002012-03-12T00:31:32.705-04:009:32, get some new material.9:32, get some new material.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-29725496505484762122012-03-11T22:32:55.500-04:002012-03-11T22:32:55.500-04:00As for the advertising vs. newsroom sniping... th...As for the advertising vs. newsroom sniping... the exchange I once heard went like this:<br /><br />Ad department employee: "Without what we do, the newsroom doesn't exist."<br /><br />Ad VP: "Without what the newsroom does, we're nothing but a shopper. If we even exist at all."<br /><br />Both sides are correct.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-14494430140390731402012-03-11T22:29:13.204-04:002012-03-11T22:29:13.204-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-70570065176545105102012-03-11T21:32:58.732-04:002012-03-11T21:32:58.732-04:00Yep, we all gotta work together to improve things,...Yep, we all gotta work together to improve things,make the content better,fill the pages with ads.<br />Yes,that's the answer.Does Gannett care one bit? Has everyone done this for the last four years? Worked harder to increase revenue,improve editorial content and increase the quality in general.<br />Gannett does not care!There will still be layoffs and employee cost cutting measures.Get Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-87940599965622906002012-03-11T21:32:58.427-04:002012-03-11T21:32:58.427-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-71964926591289429862012-03-11T20:38:10.819-04:002012-03-11T20:38:10.819-04:00From the Courier Journal's web site, it's ...From the Courier Journal's web site, it's been up since the NCAA pairings were announced;<br /><br />• U of L: Cards No. 4 seen in West; open Thursday in Portland vs. DavidsonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-39168815514144705622012-03-11T19:25:24.927-04:002012-03-11T19:25:24.927-04:00GANNETT has other employment with other skills--
...GANNETT has other employment with other skills-- <br /><br />Try cleaning up after the pigs in the ladies/mens rooms. We work for Gannett also!<br /><br />Barf!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-58642415936816339252012-03-11T19:24:48.303-04:002012-03-11T19:24:48.303-04:00@ 4:15, well said! To have a quality product, we a...@ 4:15, well said! To have a quality product, we all affect each other.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-14127217182176317412012-03-11T19:21:58.889-04:002012-03-11T19:21:58.889-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-71907935314799399192012-03-11T17:51:57.564-04:002012-03-11T17:51:57.564-04:00I'm very pleased with my bonus and my raise wa...I'm very pleased with my bonus and my raise was 4.5. Not to beat a dead horse but it does pay to suck up to Banikarim.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-29408931035646161022012-03-11T17:50:05.821-04:002012-03-11T17:50:05.821-04:00Well if you got a raise and management tells the s...Well if you got a raise and management tells the staff there is a wage freeze, then they would be liars wouldn't they. That's different than giving out raises to their favorites and at their discretion. Why lie?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-1765905150282906072012-03-11T17:23:51.017-04:002012-03-11T17:23:51.017-04:00I like 4:56's comment about not everyone being...I like 4:56's comment about not everyone being a writer, to be sure. The public, if one works at a newspaper they assume everyone is a writer.<br /><br />However, it's still a sad commentary on the education system that full-grown adults in the 21st century, regardless of their job, have such a hard time spelling and using punctuation that they brand that basic grade school ability as Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-81264230204397020102012-03-11T17:18:00.433-04:002012-03-11T17:18:00.433-04:00Dear 5:34 and 12:22: You know where to put your ou...Dear 5:34 and 12:22: You know where to put your out of touch comments, right? I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the times I've been belittled by an ad rep for being a "cost center."<br /> Wrong. Whether you like it or not, the content IS the product. Without it, you would be selling a shopper and we know how beloved they are, judging by the rotting shoppers in Truth Squadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-15646882528916136292012-03-11T16:56:05.869-04:002012-03-11T16:56:05.869-04:00hopefully writing skills are found in most editors...hopefully writing skills are found in most editors-- not everyone on this site is a writer, GANNETT has other employment with other skills-- try running the press, without an error--gotcha!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-19643983082537315042012-03-11T16:48:07.936-04:002012-03-11T16:48:07.936-04:00I gotta raise. What is your problem? Should I turn...I gotta raise. What is your problem? Should I turn it back? Obviously not. Others got them too. Are we all management's children. Not hardly. Work hard and earned the raise. Period.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-90359041656972027982012-03-11T16:15:14.700-04:002012-03-11T16:15:14.700-04:00I thought this blog was to give a forum for inform...I thought this blog was to give a forum for information about Gannett and share information that is not widely known. <br /><br /> Lately it seems its snipes at the ad departments about lack of performance and degrades the editorial staff too. It attacks the very employees it was set out to provide a forum for. Without each other there would be nothing, nada. I think the writers at our site do Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-60731637189149676532012-03-11T14:25:57.795-04:002012-03-11T14:25:57.795-04:00The poor grammar and third grade writing skills de...The poor grammar and third grade writing skills definitely attribute this one to one of the bar hopping members of the courier post ad department.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-2785512943376419832012-03-11T14:09:14.549-04:002012-03-11T14:09:14.549-04:0012:12, yes, journalists are mostly egotistical, se...12:12, yes, journalists are mostly egotistical, self absorbed whiners. But so what? People don't go on the website or buy the paper to look at ads.you can't sell the, either. So stop your rants. Please spellcheck, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-31023645382162452842012-03-11T14:09:14.362-04:002012-03-11T14:09:14.362-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-23155614134903818782012-03-11T14:03:54.246-04:002012-03-11T14:03:54.246-04:001:52 44 buyouts would be about 14% of the paper...1:52 44 buyouts would be about 14% of the paper's 325 newsroom employees, as represented in <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aip0Rq2dGk1BdEh6SlpwampGYVpmVVNHTW10eDVOYnc#gid=7" rel="nofollow">this spreadsheet</a> of employment by department across the U.S. newspaper division.Jim Hopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16712746705871119746noreply@blogger.com