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'Roanoke Times' Seeks Buyouts (Dinosaur Media DeathWatchâ„¢)
Editor & Publisher ^ | July 6, 2007 | Staff

Posted on 07/06/2007 10:15:59 AM PDT by abb

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Friday good news.
1 posted on 07/06/2007 10:16:02 AM PDT by abb
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To: 04-Bravo; aimhigh; andyandval; Arizona Carolyn; backhoe; Bahbah; bert; bilhosty; Caipirabob; ...

ping


2 posted on 07/06/2007 10:16:27 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: abb

EXCELLENT NEWS!!!!

I hope Trejbal gets canned. Who wants to read his stupid tripe, anyway?


3 posted on 07/06/2007 10:19:01 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: abb

Some really really rich person with lots of money to burn should buy them out, fire everyone, print the names and addresses of everyone that worked there, then close the doors.


4 posted on 07/06/2007 10:24:37 AM PDT by Domandred (Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
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To: abb

Used to be my hometown paper. When I worked a contract in Reston, VA, I was astonished at how balanced and fair the Washington (com)Post was in comparison to the Roanoke Times! A mission to run a communist catechism in SW Virginia does not sound like a sane business plan, now, does it? And the Post cost half as much per copy!


5 posted on 07/06/2007 10:37:24 AM PDT by RJR_fan
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To: dashing doofus

Trashball probably isn’t old enough. Besides, he probably fits right in (with) the publisher. Whattarag.

TC


6 posted on 07/06/2007 10:42:14 AM PDT by Pentagon Leatherneck
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To: RJR_fan

Posting a database link listing the names and addresses of all concealed-carry permit holders in the Commonwealth, many of whom were subscribers, was undoubtedly bad for business as well.


7 posted on 07/06/2007 10:42:53 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: abb

I hear there’s also a slide rule factory for sale, cheap.


8 posted on 07/06/2007 10:45:49 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: dashing doofus

I agree. Every NRV editorial person sucks. They should just contract for Doug Thompson’s blog in Floyd. At least he is entertaining.

http://www.blueridgemuse.com/


9 posted on 07/06/2007 10:46:20 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
You beat me to it. "Hey, boss! I got a great idea! We'll tick off a few thousand of our customers by publishing their names! That'll really increase sales."

Unfortunately the idiot who came up with that is likely to be the last to go.

10 posted on 07/06/2007 10:46:57 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: AppyPappy

After he published the CCW list, I read a few of his other columns.

One that I remember had him going on for about 500 words on how badly Virginia drivers handle snowy roads. Pretty deep stuff, that Trejbal thinks and writes about.

Plus, from his photo, I consider him to be a sitzpinkler.


11 posted on 07/06/2007 10:57:54 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: abb

I believe that RITT is still delivering....someplace.


12 posted on 07/06/2007 10:58:58 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (If General Patton was alive, he would slap many faces!!)
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To: Pentagon Leatherneck

Well, if he stays on, and starts covering main stream news, we will have lots of material here at FR to laugh about....


13 posted on 07/06/2007 11:00:42 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: dashing doofus

When he fired off the “You people are inbred, backward yahoos for voting against gay marriage”, I was done with the guy. He’s a cheap writer.


14 posted on 07/06/2007 11:01:22 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Billthedrill

Someone should round up and publish the names and addresses of the reporters and editors.


15 posted on 07/06/2007 11:05:30 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: abb
They are age 58 or older, They have at least 15 years of vesting service, and They are not considered highly compensated employees

Seems to me they could cut more costs if they retired the more highly compensated employees.

16 posted on 07/06/2007 11:15:07 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Coincidentally, this was published today.

http://nationaljournal.com/powers.htm

Who Are We?
By William Powers, National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Friday, July 6, 2007

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Every news outlet of any consequence now has endless space online to offer supplementary information about the people who report, edit, and produce the news.

snip

And then this came out.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/07/06/publiceye/entry3023899.shtml

Reporters’ Lives — Newsy or Nosey?
Posted by Brian Montopoli

William Powers believes that news organizations should post personal information about their journalists online.

He wants these questions answered: “Who are they? Where did they grow up? What did they study in school? Why did they become journalists? Did they ever work in politics or volunteer for a cause? If so, when and where?”

To which I ask: Why stop there?

What about these: What is their pin number? Who did they last sleep with? Do they have any embarrassing rashes? I demand that all journalists post at least one shirtless camera-phone pic of themselves on MySpace. The people have a right to know!

snip


17 posted on 07/06/2007 11:16:06 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: abb

Another left wing rag going under.


18 posted on 07/06/2007 11:21:13 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: abb

One each year, the Des Moines Register publishes the names and salaries of every state employee.


19 posted on 07/06/2007 11:22:50 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

The best comment I saw about the concealed permit list publication was “...When integrity fails, there is always the Roanoake times...”


20 posted on 07/06/2007 11:51:29 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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