Posted on 12/17/2008 5:15:05 AM PST by abb
ou probably sat in a fancier conference room the last time you refinanced or heard a pitch about life insurance. There's a table, some off-brand mesh office chairs, a bookcase that looks as if it had been put together with an Allen wrench and instructions in Swedish.
To reach this room, you pass through a cubicle farm lightly populated by quiet young people. Either they have just arrived or they are just leaving, because their desks are almost bare. The place has a vaguely familiar feel to it, this air of transient shabbiness and nondescriptitude. You can't quite put your finger on it ...
"It's like the set of The Office," someone offers.
Bingo.
It is here that we find Barack Obama one soul-freezingly cold December day, mentally unpacking the crate of crushing problems — some old, some new, all ugly — that he is about to inherit as the 44th President of the United States. Most of his hours inside the presidential-transition office are spent in this bland and bare-bones room. You would think the President-elect — a guy who draws 100,000 people to a speech in St. Louis, Mo., who raises three-quarters of a billion dollars, who is facing the toughest first year since Franklin Roosevelt's — might merit a leather chair. Maybe a credenza? A hutch?
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Another “journalist” claws at the ripcord...
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13745
USA Today editor Paulson to retire
http://www.footnoted.org/my-big-fat-deal/yet-another-newspaper-company-still-not-getting-it/
Yet another newspaper company still not getting it…
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2008/12/15/daily28.html
Journal Communications cuts 39 employees
http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/
Now a Word From Our Pundits
http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/
Advertising After Newspapers
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4BG6TA20081217?sp=true
Red Sox stake could fetch Times nice haul
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6623693.html
Detroit Stations Eye Opportunity As Papers Pull Back
Neat graphic Phil.
And thanks for the ping from you too abb. I see you are still using the CBS-dog-gun image I made for you way back!
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Bump
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