Wednesday, March 21, 2012

USAT | Another Blue Chip buyer lost -- temporarily

USA Today built massive circulation through its famous Blue Chip program, which sells copies at bulk prices to hotels and other institutional buyers.

Today, the paper reported that the federal prison in North Carolina had banned Monday's edition because of a too-hot-to-handle story.
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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous3/22/2012 12:06 AM

    Three sentences in the Cramer item, and one of them is messed up.

    66 2/3 percent success rate, Jimbo. No wonder you are an unemployed DJ who begs for money.

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  2. Jim Hopkins3/22/2012 12:13 AM

    There are two Jim Hopkinses in San Francisco. It's the other one who is a DJ.

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  3. Anonymous3/22/2012 12:19 AM

    That's too bad, Jim. You are even less cool than I thought.

    Fix that sentence yet?

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  4. Anonymous3/22/2012 9:37 AM

    There's something just pointless about going to a site just to complain about it.
    If something is truly terrible, you're best served by ignoring it. The hatred you have for the site and Jim suggests some other issue ...

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  5. Anonymous3/22/2012 10:16 AM

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  6. Anonymous3/22/2012 4:36 PM

    I appreciate the chuckle Jim. Need it working in this hellish place.

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  7. Anonymous3/22/2012 4:36 PM

    I appreciate the chuckle Jim. Need it working in this hellish place.

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  8. Anonymous3/22/2012 5:50 PM

    See what happens? You fire Michael Davidson and the whole blue chip program falls apart.

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  9. Anonymous3/23/2012 8:12 AM

    12:06 a.m., and you're paying how much to read Jim's work?

    Exactly.

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  10. Anonymous3/23/2012 6:41 PM

    Rudd Davis was working on boosting prison readership. nothing like a captive audience.

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