The journalists of Indianapolis want us to feel sorry for them. See, they've voluntarily signed a contract that includes a 10% pay cut and precludes raises during this contract's 2 year term. And they are wining about it. Posted on 08/29/2009 2:32:03 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
The journalists of Indianapolis want us to feel sorry for them. See, they've voluntarily signed a contract that includes a 10% pay cut and precludes raises during this contract's 2 year term. And they are wining about it.
In a day when papers are failing all across the country, the guild members of Indy journos want us to shed a tear for the fact that they've been successful in keeping their jobs. In a day of the highest unemployment in all sectors of the economy for decades, these newspaper folks want us to get all twisted up over the fact that they didn't get fired. Yes, they are all mad at their employer for not firing them and they are looking for sympathy from us.
Sure they agreed to the contract, but darn it all, they are "angry about it." And, gosh, they've "sacrificed," man! And they want to be sure that we all know about it.
I have to say, this has to be one of the most amazing displays of self-indulgent hubris I've seen in quite a while. Apparently, it doesn't seem to dawn on these union members to feel grateful that their paper hasn't gone down the tubes like so many others have. It doesn't seem to dawn on them that they should feel lucky they have a job at all, either.
There also doesn't seem to be any hint that these union whiners understand that Indy's readers are dealing with their own employment situations. The unemployment rate in Indy stands at nearly 9%. Companies are closing throughout the Indianapolis area yet these journos want everyone to feel sorry for them? And they're still working!
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
The answer to their demise is simple — Get their bosses to get the journalists to start writing something other than the slobbering love stories of their idols on the left and maybe people might start subscribing once again...idunno, it could work.
Hey if they lose their jobs, they can always sign up with the 0bamunist Thug Corps, just visit any ACORN recruiting station.
Nice set of brown shirts and pants, 0bama armbands, lapel pins with “Yes We Can”, baseball bats, steel toe’d boots, they’ll never get that in a newspaper environment.
I agree. If newspapers were to talk to their readers and gain an understanding of what they really want to read about, cut out the meaningless filler and wire service pap, and provide balanced coverage of both sides of issues - especially LOCAL issues - I feel confident they could re-invent themselves and become profitable in weeks. Think about a newspaper that is so *good* that people can’t wait to read it, sorta like the next Harry Potter novel. Maybe a stretch but I think something like this is possible.
But stay on the path they’re on, and they’re all toast, eventually.
Until THEY learn the difference between the opinion page an the news they lose......
“But stay on the path they’re on, and they’re all toast, eventually.”
I agree...And the remarkable thing about this — They have to know what is causing them to decline in circulation and therefore any other sane business would have adjusted to consumer demands years ago...But, these folks just seem to keep rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic and requesting the band keep playing. Oh well. Consumers will not pay for something they don’t want.
“they are wining about it. “
They are WHAT about it?
MSM? Sorry, you get absolutely no sympathy from me. You’ve destroyed your credibility, your profession, and thus your very livelihood with your egregious bias towards liberal and socialist viewpoints. Sympathy? No, in fact good riddance, with it had happened sooner.
Sympathy ? Not!
Shame they didn’t hold out like they usually do so the paper could just get shut down.
What the hell did these people expect when they voted for all this change ?
They’re being payed back for how they treated Newsies all those many years ago.
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