Posted on 12/02/2005 2:08:36 PM PST by LdSentinal
Since it's the other Chicago paper, the Sun-Times, that carriers Mark Steyn, I'm hoping moveon.org goes after the Tribune with a boycott, giving the ST a boost.
This is what happens when lefties radicalize too far.
They start to eat their own............LA Times, Hillary Clinton, Bob Woodward, ................
Not only are the Tired old Media dinosaurs trampling each other to get into the tar pits, now they're dragging the barking moonbats along with them!!
To carry the analogy a little further, if the moonbats were truly French-like, they'd demand that the Trib mgmt bring in more illegals to keep its costs down...the problem is, the illegals are only semi-literate, and more to the point, even fewer people would read the LA times if it were printed in Spanish...
:humming softly: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
No kidding. Talk about clubbing yourself to dead with a Stupid-Stick.
Thank You! You made my day a lot brighter.
MoveOn Protests Times, Tribune Co. Job Reductions
MoveOn.org has launched a petition drive to protest job reductions at the Los Angeles Times and three other Tribune Co. newspapers -- cutbacks that the liberal activist group said threaten the papers' ability to deliver "strong watchdog journalism."
Executives at the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune -- the two biggest newspapers owned by Tribune Co...said they did not expect the petitions to save jobs ...
Publisher David Hiller said the reductions were similar to those being made at many other newspapers, including those owned by Knight Ridder Inc. and The New York Times Co.
"The necessity to makes these cuts is unfortunate, but it's the reality of the marketplace that we are in," ...
the campaign to prevent the job cuts at the Tribune newspapers is posted on the MoveOn.org Web site alongside two other postings -- one asking for contributions for advertisements ...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-moveon3dec03,0,4245279.story?coll=la-home-headlines&track=morenews
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
A lot of Moveon.org members have been put out of work with these job cuts...
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Are they serious or is this a joke? If they're concerned they could use all the money they plan on spending and buy subscriptions to the paper and they wouldn't have to lay off as many lame reporters...but because they are Liberals and have no concept of how a business is run they'd rather blow a wad of cash just complaining about it instead of doing something about it.
It is getting obvious, that the self propagating liberal editorial staffs of the MSM outlets combined with the ultra liberal university journalism system is destroying the value of the MSM.
This protest by MoveOn is really a great sign that the owners of the MSM are starting to get a clue that their assets are being destroyed by these people. The MoveOn people see this as the camel's nose coming under the tent. A prelude to hiring journalists that are capable of finding news and reporting on it. Hiring editors who don't insist on being shills for the Dems.
Ultimately, these companies are having to compete against the cornucopia of comment and opinion on the web called the Blogosphere and they are losing market share because they only have one badly outdated play in the play book. They have a natural advantage of actually having reporters and primary news gatherers that the Blogosphere has yet to develop, but even this advantage is ethereal because the blogosphere has reporters on every street corner. The blogosphere right now doesn't have an effective editorial mechanism to gather sort and coordinate primary reporting sources. The MSM still has this better defined and organized and they can use this to create and present a compelling product, but this means that alot of dead wood has to be burnt.
The owners of the various MSM properties have not been faced by economically viable competition that actually starts delivering eyes to significant advertisers.
Talk radio has managed to prove it is delivering ears and buyers and the format has grown to the point that most major markets have 2 or 3 conservative oriented talk radio stations with competing programming. It used to be just Rush, now you can pick and choose all day and find this content by a number of bright, committed and entertaining hosts.
Fox has made in roads into the great bastion of Liberal bias of broadcast television but none of the big three has blinked yet or substantially wavered from all Liberal bias all of the time. MoveOn and the radical Left, are watching in horror as the ownership of the various flagships of the MSM use layoffs to shed Lefties either to stem the flow or red ink or in preparation to finding new voices that can reconnect with the American public and psyche. The owners cannot tell these people.. you have to get more balanced.. the reaction is fierce and breathtaking.
The determiner of whether this is actually a signal of the beginning of the end of left bias would be for the Tribune Company and other MSM outlets to promote Conservatives into lead Editorial positions. If this happens, then the layoffs have the purpose of creating transforming change to recapture readers and viewers lost to the New Media. This would explain MoveOn being desperate to stop this and expecting that they can have an impact. Otherwise, if the Editorial Staff of these outlets stays the same, the layoffs are a signal that the Newspaper business has crossed into End-of-Life conditions, and that the Advertising revenue these companies run on will begin to flow to the New Media as they are able to measurably deliver eyes and messages in an effective economic model.
"...the lefty loons exhibit absolutely no knowledge of what makes a business run successfully..."
I agree.
Most do not even know how to run their own lives.
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