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A friend of mine said 200 more layoffs at LA Times and their neighborhood papers....including 4 at the Glendale News-Press.
1 posted on 12/02/2005 5:52:31 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl

How soon will it be that is more profitable to recycle the paper than try to sell it?


2 posted on 12/02/2005 5:54:59 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: BurbankKarl

And moveon.org is trying to prop them up. If moveon suggests a boycott, I recommend that we *gasp* work alongside them.


3 posted on 12/02/2005 5:57:09 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: BurbankKarl

Weak ad sales are the problem, according to them. Uh, ad sales in general are up as the economy continues to hum merrily along. So their declining ad sales are due to the fact nobody really reads the multitude of fishwraps they publish, because they refuse to print the truth about Iraq, the President, and the economy. No advertiser wants to put money (ads) into a paper that has diminishing returns, ie, readership. Somehow I don't think the Tribune will make that little connection, though.


5 posted on 12/02/2005 5:59:18 PM PST by ex 98C MI Dude
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To: BurbankKarl

They have been showing a few signs of trying to temper their far-left madness, but I don't know how much that will help. It's not clear from this article, which only mentions classified automobile ads, but it could be that they are suffering from the same classified ad problem across the board as Knight Ridder.

In other words, the internet is eating their lunch. People aren't advertising in newspapers as much any more, when it's so much easier and more effective to do it on-line.


6 posted on 12/02/2005 5:59:33 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: BurbankKarl

How many times have they called? How many times have I said NO? Many. Well, I say more than NO. I go into a rant and tell them that I will subscribe when they use the term illegal alien, when the call Democrats unpatriotic, when they acknowledge that Bill really did rape Juanita Broaddrick, and when they call Hillary Clinton the greatest danger to this nation next to al Qaeda itself. Sometimes then hang up before I finish.


10 posted on 12/02/2005 6:05:21 PM PST by doug from upland (The troops will come home when the mission is complete)
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To: BurbankKarl
Opportunity knocks again giving me yet another chance to tout my shrine to Olds Media. A work of FReeper performance art known as Got them Olds Media Circulation Blues inspired by an ancient axiom that bad news sells.

Newspaper circulation down. Sanfrancisco Chronicle down 17% - 11/08/2005
Newspaper Circulation Continues to Decline (NY Daily News DOWN 1.5% - May 2005) - 10/24/2005
Bored readers cutting off Globe’s circulation - 10/20/2005
Time Inc. Gets A U.S. Subpoena About Circulation - 09/24/2005
Denver papers use liberal rules to boost circulation - 08/08/2005
Advertisers Sue 'Minneapolis Star Tribune' Over Circulation Inflation - 06/29/2005
Arrests made in Newsday circulation scandal - 06/16/2005
Los Angeles Times Reports March Circulation (Down, down, down) - 05/02/2005
Belo Begins Refunding Advertisers Over Inflated Circulation Figures (Texas) - 05/02/2005
Why Can’t the Washington Post Keep Circulation Up? - 07/23/2004
Newsday, Hoy publishers retire amid circulation scandal - 07/19/04
Publishers Seek Scapegoats for Circulation Woes - 07/05/2004
Tribune Company (LA Times parent) Admits Inflated Circulation Numbers At Two Papers - 06/23/2004
12 posted on 12/02/2005 6:11:37 PM PST by Milhous (Sarcasm - the last refuge of an empty mind.)
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To: BurbankKarl

200 is just a good start. May they all be in soup lines


13 posted on 12/02/2005 6:11:56 PM PST by Steamburg (Pretenders everywhere)
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To: BurbankKarl

Do ya think they've realized yet that insulting your customers on a daily basis was a bad business plan? No? I don't either.


20 posted on 12/02/2005 6:42:44 PM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: All; yall

If they printed news instead of fiction, they might have a fighting chance. As it is... they're a waste of good trees that would otherwise be converting carbon dioxide to oxygen.


21 posted on 12/02/2005 6:47:37 PM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || To Libs: You are failing to celebrate MY diversity! || Iran Azadi)
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To: BurbankKarl

Gee, does that mean all those folks are going to have to go out and WORK for a living?! What a way to swell those republican ranks.


23 posted on 12/02/2005 6:55:11 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: BurbankKarl

bump


25 posted on 12/02/2005 7:04:19 PM PST by VOA
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To: BurbankKarl

How long before Babs (Barbra Streisand) buys hereself a newspaper? She is so upset with the way The Times is being run these days and she is so desperate to sway public opinion to her deluded way of thinking, it seems a natural turn of events.


26 posted on 12/02/2005 7:10:27 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: BurbankKarl

If the times were to fold and all the liberal writers and editors got released would anyone really care?
Hell I 'd think it would be a good thing.


34 posted on 12/03/2005 3:16:28 AM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: BurbankKarl
"L.A. Times Drags on Tribune Revenue (200 *more* layoffs expected)"

Couldn't happen to a more deserving Lame Stream Media Loser!

BUH-BYE, Liberal Rag!

38 posted on 12/05/2005 9:42:42 PM PST by albee ("Those that bite the hand that feeds them will lick the boot that kicks them!" - Eric Hoffer)
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