[anniegetyourgun]

NYTimes reports that dog bites man. These are such easy stories to find and write - regardless of the overall health of the economy.

[mountaineer]

Indeed. My husband was laid off shortly after our marriage, and I started working a $6 per hour job. We survived. Lesson: life is tough, get over it.

[Grampa Dave]

The good news is that if the NY Slimes continues to turn off real conservatives, they could be laying off a lot of the lunatic libs working for the Slimes.

So come to the thread below and revel in the NY Slimes getting some economic kicks for its vile liberalism.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1031824/posts

New York Times Seen In Lackluster Ad Trend
Forbes ^ | 2003/11/24/ | Forbes Staff


Posted on 12/01/2003 1:36 PM PST by Grampa Dave


New York Times Seen In Lackluster Ad Trend Forbes Staff , 11.24.03, 12:03 PM ET

NEW YORK -

New York Times (nyse: NYT - news - people ) stock softened after a Banc of America Securities research note said the media company and rival Knight Ridder (nyse: KRI - news - people ) finished October on a lackluster note, posting respective ad sales growth gains of just 1.2% and 0.4%.

Bank of America Securities said the color ad page count at the flagship newspaper of Dow Jones (nyse: DJ - news - people ), The Wall Street Journal, is averaging 8.3 pages per day so far this November, which is up from the November 2002 level of 6.8 pages per day. But the securities firm said that earnings risks persist for the newspaper sector overall in the fourth quarter due to weak ad sales.

It noted that although telecoms now offer wireless portability, there have been very few ads for the new service in newspapers. In addition, department stores' ad spending remains soft and is continuing to shift to other forms of media.

Despite its concerns about Knight Ridder's weak ad spending in October, Banc of America Securities reiterated a "buy" rating for it and Tribune (nyse: TRB - news - people ) while maintaining "neutral" ratings on New York Times and Dow Jones. New York Times was down 48 cents at $45.36; Dow Jones, down 1 cent at $49.92; Tribune, up 7 cents at $48.10; and Knight Ridder, up 47 cents at $73.23

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1031824/posts

[Jackson Brown]

Yep -- this is a dog bites man story.

When people loses jobs, it's always tough.

But, as far as this article goes, the reasons are a glut of jobs in a short lived bubble in the Internet/tech, where a large percentage of people with visions of being millionaires straight out of college decided to major in the "computer sciences" -- it easy to forget the cause for today's lost jobs (unsustainable growth) started long before Bush took office.

NAFTA and the sending of jobs over seas is part of the picture too.

Bush needs to address this, but he is NOT the cause and NO amount of avoiding these facts from he NYT will make it all any different!

[A. Pole]

These are such easy stories to find and write - regardless of the overall health of the economy.

Hey, economy is improving and all those people are working. Some of them two jobs instead of one so employment is going up! And labor costs are going down as a bonus.

[Axenolith]

I'll buy that, considering I was making close to 25K before taxes delivering pizza in the late 80's. These people must not be very imaginative in the job aquisition department.

Also, IMO, if you're hauling down 250K\year you should be smart enough to structure your lifestyle to sock away 40K per YEAR in savings AND not have any credit card debt. It's all in planning and living within ones means.

It would help if schools could take some time spent in "diversity awareness" training and switch it to common financial education... Then again, I've got to go slop the flying pigs...