Posted on 06/26/2006 12:44:44 PM PDT by abb
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The Dallas Morning News, a unit of the Belo Corp. (BLC) , said Monday it is planning a voluntary severance program for newsroom employees. Program details and timing are still under consideration, the company said. The newspaper said it will announce program specifics when they are finalized. End of Story
I guess they don't need as big a staff to make up the news these days.
Ping
I wish the Houston Chronicle would do this.
If they need a list of people to sever, they should drop me a line.
Yeah, and if they keep up the leftist/lieberal slant they'll be working on the paper in a phone booth.
Is the Dallas Morning News a really biased paper?
I've read it on and off over the years - basically when I've been in Dallas.
I actually found it to be less biased than the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
At least I thought I did anyway.
Compared to the Fort Worth (Red) Star-Telegram, the DMN is conservative.
Compared to cyanide, arsenic isn't as lethal. But they both will kill ya...
Are DailyKaOS and DUh hiring? They might want to send out some resumes.
That's my position on Fox News. "Conservative" compared to CNN but then CNN is "conservative" compared to CNN Europe.
Why don't all newspapers drop their print editions and go strictly online. Everything is electronic now. All the labor costs associated with printing, the machinery, the carriers, the newspaper stands...it's all obsolete now. Maybe just print the Sunday editions only.
"Is the Dallas Morning News a really biased paper?"
Depends on what you compare it to. It always raised my BP a good 15 psi during the 1990s when I lived in its subscription area, due to its left-wing bias.
After four years living in Houston, and reading the Houston Communist, it seems centrist by comparison.
Kind of like comparing Hillary!(TM) to Teddy K. You know Hillary!(TM) is biased left, but you also know she isn't a moonbat.
Why don't they just raise their prices? More jobs and benefits for everyone!
This is what they would demand of the government, more taxes and benefits, why not the same for them?
It's headed that way. But dead tree newspapers ignored the elephant in the room for so long, they can't switch to online fast enough. Online nerd types (Yahoo, Google) have such a head start on them, they'll never catch up. Online ads are much more economically efficient at reaching target customers, newspapers are now in a serious jam.
The next year or two will see the death of several big newspapers, imo...
HAHA I was driving past some homeless looking fellows selling Sunday newspapers in the road medians yesterday. The thought crossed my mind: if the MSM is resorting to this to keep their distribution numbers up, things must be getting very bad.
hehehe -- couldn't happen to a slimier bunch!
I've said it before: the slide will accelerate when the advertisers realize how poor a return they really get from newspaper advertising. Right now I don't think they know, or measure, what works and what doesn't.
Back in the 70s and 80s I used to love to read the papers, but now with almost complete coverage of events on the Web, and with most papers just reprinting NYT or AP coverage by rote, there's no point any more.
At first it is voluntary.
Then, the security people come and remove the remaining employees with a cardboard box holding their personal items.
LOL, or they just stop paying you. And they say you can keep coming in to work - but for free...
One of our younger relatives has spent a few weeks each year for the past 3 years in Dallas on business.
At first he was excited to be out of the California Bay area to get hold of a good newspaper. Before his first week was over, he told his motel manager to stop the free delivery with the so called free USA Today.
With the security and liability problems and the legal problems, no one who isn't on the payroll is wanted at any business.
In my wife's office, one of the hourly gals who was supposed to work 4-6 hours 4 days a week missed more days work for various reason than she had worked the first 5 months of the year. The company laid her off.
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