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Posted on 08/23/2011 4:30:16 PM PDT by SmithL
MediaNews Group is combining most of its daily newspapers in the San Francisco Bay area to save money.
The shake-up announced Tuesday will affect 13 newspapers . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
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SV Ping.
My crystal ball is Murky...
The shake-up announced Tuesday will affect 13 newspapers, er, liberal/socialist pushing government propaganda organs. Ain’t Marxism grand.
Pinging with Tuesday evening good news.
About 120 lose jobs in Bay Area News Group rebranding, streamlining
Dean Lesher is rolling in his grave.
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I’ve never regretted my decision NOT to go into journalism. It was a very close call.
Liberals show be thrilled by this action! Less trees to perish. Less carbon footprints from these layoffs. They should be dancing in the streets!
Old marketing rule: Never throw away a viable brand without a darned good reason. MediaNews is tossing 13 and trying to establish two new ones.
Obvious conclusion: the old ones were worthless ... to the point where it wasn't even worth the effort to try and salvage even one of them.
Patch.com’s Lance Howland hears that almost 50 people on the editorial side will lose their jobs.
Conclusion: This is better than the first reported. They are also cutting back on the one thing that differentiates a home town news rag from its competition ... home town news.
According to Wikipedia, "In January, 2010, Affiliated Media, parent of MediaNews, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The MediaNews creditors then removed Media News president Joseph Lodovic and its chairman, William Dean Singleton, was reassigned to the position of “executive chairman of the board."
And this is the reason for all the Boo-Rah. The badly burned hedge fund investors are trying to salvage something, anything, on their investment.
It's about time. Do you realize what a pain in the ass it's been to pretend they were 13 different newspapers all this time? Sheesh!
If newspapers and their agendas in areas where people still believe what they read in the rags can’t make it, the how long will the Dinosaur Media Death Watch really be? Seemingly quite short.
Somewhat like Oldsmobile, Chevy, Pontiac, Buick, et al.
They own the Times-Standard in Eureka and have announced that they will cease delivery to Southern Humboldt aka the Emerald Triangle and will be going to a for fee web-based newspaper without reducing advertising rates of the print edition. That area has more disposable income then most other locations and the car dealers sell many vehicles down there. It is just a matter of time before they shut the entire print edition down...
Ping to the further demise of the print edition of the dinosaur media...
Some of the richest liberals in the Bay Area live where their beloved left wing daily liars will cancelled.
We have younger relatives living in some of these areas. They are DINKs with good jobs. Most stopped buying the stinking fish wraps years ago. They get the ads/coupons/deals via the internet and have for years.
An interesting side bar is the survival of the free/throw away weeklies and bi weekly fishwraps geared towards strictly to local news with some decent reporting by people who live in those areas. Local advertiser and mall advertisers prefer to spend their ad $’s on the free newspapers versus the left wing bigger fishwraps.
It’s all about eyeballs. I’m proud to say my little newsblog has greater circulation in Jackson Parish, LA than does the “official journal,” The Jackson Independent. I don’t sell ads, but I may change my mind if growth continues.
Counties are called parishes in Louisiana.
You’re right about the eyeballs. The CoCo Times called this week asking if they could deliver just the ads, for free, of course.
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