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Belo's Dallas Morning News plans voluntary severance program (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch)
MarketWatch.com ^ | June 26, 2006 | Gabriel Madway

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: belo; dbm; newspapers; schadenfreude
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1 posted on 06/26/2006 12:44:47 PM PDT by abb
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I guess they don't need as big a staff to make up the news these days.


2 posted on 06/26/2006 12:45:48 PM PDT by weegee (If fetal tissue is non-viable, then why are they trying to use it to stimulate cell production?)
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3 posted on 06/26/2006 12:46:31 PM PDT by abb (If it Ain't Posted on FreeRepublic, it Ain't News)
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I wish the Houston Chronicle would do this.

If they need a list of people to sever, they should drop me a line.


4 posted on 06/26/2006 12:48:31 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: weegee

Yeah, and if they keep up the leftist/lieberal slant they'll be working on the paper in a phone booth.


5 posted on 06/26/2006 12:49:16 PM PDT by AdvisorB
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To: abb

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.


6 posted on 06/26/2006 12:52:12 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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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...


8 posted on 06/26/2006 12:54:17 PM PDT by abb (If it Ain't Posted on FreeRepublic, it Ain't News)
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Yeah, and if they keep up the leftist/lieberal slant they'll be working on the paper in a phone booth.

Are DailyKaOS and DUh hiring? They might want to send out some resumes.

9 posted on 06/26/2006 12:54:34 PM PDT by weegee (If fetal tissue is non-viable, then why are they trying to use it to stimulate cell production?)
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To: abb

That's my position on Fox News. "Conservative" compared to CNN but then CNN is "conservative" compared to CNN Europe.


10 posted on 06/26/2006 12:55:46 PM PDT by weegee (If fetal tissue is non-viable, then why are they trying to use it to stimulate cell production?)
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To: abb

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.


11 posted on 06/26/2006 12:57:29 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Undocumented FReeper)
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"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.


12 posted on 06/26/2006 12:58:53 PM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: abb

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?


13 posted on 06/26/2006 12:59:15 PM PDT by RJL
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Why don't all newspapers drop their print editions and go strictly online?

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...

14 posted on 06/26/2006 1:04:32 PM PDT by abb (If it Ain't Posted on FreeRepublic, it Ain't News)
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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!


15 posted on 06/26/2006 1:09:46 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'... till you can find a rock.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; abb
I wondered this too, but it seems to me that online ads are trackable and measurable(click-through rate or something), where print ads are not. So the fantasy of the vast readership can be maintained for paper copy, while the online copy readership count can be calculated and measured.

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.

16 posted on 06/26/2006 1:40:44 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Pray for our President and for our heroes in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world!)
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To: abb; george76

At first it is voluntary.

Then, the security people come and remove the remaining employees with a cardboard box holding their personal items.


17 posted on 06/26/2006 2:10:12 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: Grampa Dave

LOL, or they just stop paying you. And they say you can keep coming in to work - but for free...


18 posted on 06/26/2006 2:12:21 PM PDT by abb (If it Ain't Posted on FreeRepublic, it Ain't News)
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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.


19 posted on 06/26/2006 2:12:32 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: abb

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.


20 posted on 06/26/2006 2:16:38 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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