tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post4306529448796932620..comments2023-11-05T06:26:51.316-05:00Comments on Gannett Blog: USAT | Here's one of the more pronounced voicesJim Hopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712746705871119746noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-82236949285057001512013-04-15T14:55:06.078-04:002013-04-15T14:55:06.078-04:00One would think Google's previous decade of pe...One would think Google's previous decade of performance vs. Gannett's would render this entire discussion irrelevant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-13788410611540059192013-04-10T23:02:18.205-04:002013-04-10T23:02:18.205-04:00No worse than th stench coming from the rancid new...No worse than th stench coming from the rancid newsroom. Something has died there. Spirit. Purpose. Judgement. Energy. It is really sad. No one seems to care.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-24216653322215812352013-04-09T08:38:10.719-04:002013-04-09T08:38:10.719-04:00Spot on. The guy is either burned out or on someth...Spot on. The guy is either burned out or on something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-5482399579189599072013-04-09T08:36:40.754-04:002013-04-09T08:36:40.754-04:00Just what is the relationship between kramer and w...Just what is the relationship between kramer and wolff? He is a contract columnist, yet was center at usa today's upfront marketing disaster last month. He gets paid to write for us, yet we also have to use content from his website. What the heck is all the entangled deals about? Smells funny. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-76315755864412435352013-04-08T21:03:24.554-04:002013-04-08T21:03:24.554-04:00Mr. Wolff,
Perhaps you seem to miscalculate Google...Mr. Wolff,<br />Perhaps you seem to miscalculate Google's value? Based on my view, Google owns a whole bunch of "stuff" that when added together is worth more than every newspaper company around the world...combined!<br /><br />Perhaps, what Google doesn't need is a bunch of washed up journalists that cry when they get furloughed or when they do not have an electric pencil Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-13114536056183966922013-04-08T21:01:03.088-04:002013-04-08T21:01:03.088-04:00Bring back Larry King!
Bring back Larry King!<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-37187721046227277822013-04-08T20:31:15.533-04:002013-04-08T20:31:15.533-04:00If Wolff were on staff, he'd be precisely the ...If Wolff were on staff, he'd be precisely the lazy, popmpous hacks they are trying to shove out the door. Instead, he has a "special" relationship with little buddy and business partner Kramer. Just more third rate content to fill Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-5949636308457437672013-04-08T18:26:56.294-04:002013-04-08T18:26:56.294-04:00Wolff's elitist and hyper-parochial worldview ...Wolff's elitist and hyper-parochial worldview is antithetical to USA TODAY.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-36722365635994531252013-04-08T16:33:02.508-04:002013-04-08T16:33:02.508-04:00From the Wikpedia article about Wolff:
In a 2004 ...From the Wikpedia article about Wolff:<br /><br />In a 2004 cover story for The New Republic, Michelle Cottle wrote that Wolff was “uninterested in the working press,” preferring to focus on “the power players—the moguls” and was "fixated on culture, style, buzz, and money, money, money.” She also noted that “the scenes in his columns aren’t recreated so much as created—springing from Jim Hopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16712746705871119746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-17722407742507367972013-04-08T11:57:58.934-04:002013-04-08T11:57:58.934-04:00Wolff knows little about any subject not directly ...Wolff knows little about any subject not directly related to Rupert Murdoch. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-80783440839308810102013-04-08T10:51:52.221-04:002013-04-08T10:51:52.221-04:00Wolff also writes about Google's purchase of F...Wolff also writes about Google's purchase of Frommer's last year: "Still, this was the first time Google seemed actually to acknowledge that it needed to own content, specifically to enhance Google+."<br /><br />Here, too, he seems to have forgotten that Google <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/google-to-buy-zagat/" rel="nofollow">bought the Zagat restaurant guide Jim Hopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16712746705871119746noreply@blogger.com