Posted on 03/06/2014 5:59:33 AM PST by shortstop
The bay area isn’t large enough to support two papers, the Times and the Trib...
Where did they get the cash to buy the naming rights for the hockey rink then?
Bwahahahyahaha! LIBs appear either to be awakening and not buying that rag or more of them can’t read.
It threw itself under the Obama bus.
Leni
St. Petersburg, err, Tampa Bay Times, Pravda Florida keeps falling. Unfortunately, our local rag, the Lakeland Ledger, has picked up many columnists columns from the TB Times. If it weren’t for the local section of the Ledger, I’d cancel in a heartbeat. (They, the Ledger, charge to read on-line if you’re not a subscriber)
Long time ago..when papers were flush..
Die, Commie Rag, Die
I’m hoping their first cost cutting measure will be to dump their entire editorial page staff. Then we can stop reading about how George Bush, Rick Scott and David Jolly- bad and Barack Obama and Alex Sink- good.
excerpt:
By many measures, the economy is improving steadily even if growth remains painfully slow. There have been 31 straight months of job growth, and more than 5 million private sector jobs have been created. The unemployment rate is down to 7.8 percent not great, but the same as when Obama took office. The stock market has come back, new housing starts are the highest in four years and housing prices in Tampa Bay and other areas are rising. The financial industry is stable, interest rates remain low and corporate profits are healthy. There is still too much economic pain, but America is better off than most of the rest of the industrialized world.
Da! Is good!
The smart ones will take the buyouts before TBT runs out of money.
Why? According to Obama and the Democrats, the economy is booming. Their circulation should be going through the sky. They should be hiring. Again, why?
Why? Maybe when your editorial policy pi$$es off half of your potential client base, you stand to lose a lot of potential customers. I live in Pinellas County but I subscribe to the Tampa Tribune. Not an overly conservative paper but definitely middle of the road. I start my day in a much better mood after quitting the Times.
I left the Tribune about 5 years ago. Haven’t missed it yet and 50 years from now I will still be able to day ,”I haven’t missed it yet”.
Most of the columnists/contributors appear liberal....even if they claim to be Republican. This is a poor excuse for a newspaper. imho, the majority of the stories they write are either blatantly biased or written in a way to imply any Republican is ‘bad’.
Most likely they place a restriction based on IP address. You can probably use a free IP Address mask like http://www.anchorfree.com/ and not bother paying for content that has no intrinsic value.
When you’ve used up your free articles on an IP address, just log off and back in again to your VPN and you’ll look like another visitor to the website.
Aren’t enough sheeple able to read, I bet Jeantel subscribes though, for the grocery coupons.
“This comes as the St. Petersburg-based newspaper faces increasing financial strain and works with business consultants to improve the companys financial results.
I’m still waiting for the politicians to start rebuking businesses who say this with the “Business is meant for public service, not private profit”>
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