Posted on 07/31/2007 8:23:53 AM PDT by IrishMike
CBS, the company that used fake documents to attempt to throw the Presidential election to the anti-American DemocRATs. Ha!
Hmmmm, revenue down, eh bubba?
Here’s a clue... take the money you pay on air “talent” like Ms. Couric and hire real live, reporters. You know, the kind that actually investigates and gives you real information instead of just reading the wire services.
Then, hire news readers. You know, competent, attractive, well spoken individuals to read the news. I bet you could find some very good ones for $200k a year. Great ones for $500k.
Try that and see what happens. What have you got to lose at this point?
I think you have hit on it.
There are too many people who have a personal vested interst in a daily paper. Even if it is just the Society page to show who cares more about some PC charity de jour. An the snob class can show off the disposable 10,000 dollar one time wearing dress. (next to the fat guy wearing a tuxedo)
However I think newspapers will become more and more siege mentality. Like a country club where nobody goes anywhere else for fear of touching the “unclean class”.
The perky one’s Christmas bonus may be in jeopardy. LOL, couldn’t happen to a better station, or anchor!
Cut personnel, immediately.
Maybe hire at least one conservative just to make it look like you are fair.
Nahhh
Fold the tent and let the liberals that put out the carp they do sell pencils on some street corner. Maybe clean car windows as they come out of the Holland tunnel.
I doubt it.
Every organization has its own unique culture. Mess with it at peril. They might try to gradually migrate, but old habits die slowly. (Think of Digital Equipment Corporation ...)
In any event, public preception will always lag any real changes in their corporate culture. Hiring the aging Dan Rather and looking over the cast of "60 Minutes" is evidence that their corporate culture, at least in the News Division, is stuck on 1969.
Katie and SeeBS ratings plunging faster than hillary’s neckline!!!!!
Sorry, didn't mean to offend anyone.
The Interweb is just full of horrible things. I try to drive with my eyes closed.
I accidentally started watching Celebrity Jeopardy yesterday on ABC. The contestants were Nancy Grace, Regis Philbin, and some gay guy I didn’t recognize.
Every other comment was a joking reference to homosexuality. It is always uncomfortable to me to be forced to listen to sex talk on TV with my family in the room, but this just became BORING! I finally gave up on Jeopardy.
I suppose if CBS tried to be wholesome, they wouldn’t be able to pull it off.
It just piles up, you know?
I ran in a track meet at Cardinal Hayes in H.S. (It's (or was) a Marist School, as was my alma mater.)
My point is, we can't get caught up thinking "market forces" are going to bring these guys to their senses. It's like waiting for Hollywood to respond to market forces. They will, only just enough to get the money they need to do their looney stuff.
FWIW, according to one study of newspapers in 1840, there were something like 200 main newspapers in the U.S. and every one of them was dictated by a party (most by the Dems, some by the Whigs).
Here in Dayton, OH, the ultralib Dayton Daily News moved its operations to a big new facility in the suburbs-—after whining about how no one supports downtown Dayton! LOL.
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