And now the Miami Herald has lost so many readers that it is up for sale. So how is that "resources" thing working out for you, Mr. Online Editor?
PING!
I liked ol’ Baghdad Bob. It was obvious he didn’t believe the stuff he was saying either, as he could barely keep a straight face. He was harmless.
Heh. ‘Resources’ sounds like ‘I’m afraid to ask the boss’. Great fisking of Pruitt’s statement.
Speaking of Baghdad Bob, many Freepers here turned into Baghdad Bobs in the run up to the election as they refused to believe all the polls, and started weaving fantastic theories to deny the obvious.
We had tens of thousands of 2 1/4 negatives, indexed complete with a copy of the article they were used with, in storage. The room where they were kept was right next to the photo lab so when things were slow I'd go in there and spend time just perusing the files. Fascinating!
Working at the Trib was my first real experience of working in the corporate world of today where everything is driven by the stock price. They simply refused to listen to anyone who was working there and would buy into all sorts of third-party products and ideas.
When they realized they were losing readers to TV and the Internet their response was to try to make their paper more like the TV and Internet, instead of working to make it a better paper that did things the others simply could not do. They had a really half-assed program for selling copies of pictures that had run in the paper. With 40 plus full time photographers on the staff they were taking hundreds of pictures every day, 99.9% of which were never used. They would not make these pictures available. They only ones they would sell were the ones that actually got published. This was at the insistence of the legal eagles. Everything at the paper was run first by the the legal people and then by the bean counters. The paper had daily what was left over after those two got through scaring the hell out of everyone.
Sad story.