Posted on 04/07/2006 7:32:40 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
There are almost 1,500 daily papers in the U.S., so the gathering of publishers at this year's Newspaper Association of America annual conference -- held Apr. 2-4 in Chicago -- looked a lot like America. An America of local monopolists, that is: overwhelmingly white, male, late-middle-aged, and predisposed to wear suits on Sunday, even when traveling. They gathered to hear, once again, that the whole problem is that they are no longer monopolists.
At every NAA convention, these men attend nightly parties in the host city's grandest public spaces. This year's opening event was at the magnificent Field Museum, on a large open floor bookended by two massive dinosaur skeletons. Many attendees joked about this. To the executive to whom I said such an obvious metaphor would never, ever, appear in this column: I lied.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.businessweek.com ...
Even though he had promised one of the dino execs attendees, the Dinosaur metaphor would never appear in his column.
fyi
Reckon they lurk here, Dave? Betcha they do. Didja check on the story on Time, Inc.?
"Reckon they lurk here, Dave? Betcha they do.
You bet they do. Remember the photo of the news staff at CBS re the Perky Katie announcement with the Drudge Report on the screen of one of the BSers at CBS?"
"Didja check on the story on Time, Inc.?"
I've been there and commented and here is the link to your thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1610867/posts
DINOSAUR MEDIA EXTINCTION ALERT AND BUMP!! Just read the whole article, Dave. Hell of a hoot. They ain't got a clue....
Just sent a link of the story to Joe Strupp @ E & P. It'll ruin his day, lol...
He is a miserable whiner and that is a worthless liberal whine site.
I worked four years at a newspaper and tried to use the word "transmogrification" in a story.
Took a while, but I finally found a use for it describing the editor and got fired.
"I worked four years at a newspaper and tried to use the word "transmogrification" in a story.
Took a while, but I finally found a use for it describing the editor and got fired."
Shapeshifting. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Shapeshifting, transformation , transmogrification or morphing is a change in the form or shape of a person, especially: a change from human form to animal form and vice versa ..
Okay, I will now ask the question what did the Editor become?
A liberal.
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