Fewer workers, fewer column inches, less paper used, fewer trees turned into pulp, less mercury in our water, more CO2 sequestered by live trees, less dirty oil used to transport product to distribution points, less global warming, fewer polar bears drowned.

I admire these Green Heros for sacrificing (shifting) their employment in The Great Fight Against Global Warming that they so nobly fought in their "reports".

Let's give them their due praise while they scour the Classified Ads section looking for their next engagement.

Good one, shaken !!

Also, less fear-mongering, less misinformation, less waste of taxpayer $$s on the Hyppy agenda.

I often wondered how those buckboard-wagon makers felt when the automobile manufacturers started to make trucks in good numbers.

That would be green rehos, shaken.

In reading through the memo from the publisher, it would seem that the reason the paper has a problem is that the dead wood is in the publishers office. His memo conveys strongly the idea that they spent the bulk of their management energy in the last two years attempting to reduce costs (with staff reductions a major factor). Nowhere does he even hint at any serious effort to grow or offset the paper's losses through any kind of market development or technology offset. The memo demonstrates the Peter Principle in action. Like so many ivory tower management suites, he's missed the fact that his staff are what make the paper, not him, and as a consequence, because his office has no vision, neither does the paper.
The death of print media isn't a given. The death of print media by suicide appears to be.

Skip, that's an astute observation. It's also a small version of what's been happening at the NY Times, under the terrible leadership of solid leftist editor-in-chief Bud Salzberger, scion of the majority stockholder Sulzberger family.

Less and less people are buying the NY Times' stale leftist agitprop ultimately translates into less and less advertisers buying ad space, which means a steady and large decline of NY Times Corp stock. The can't spin this in context of ideology-less general industry decline, either. In contrast, the New York Post, a dynamic moderate/conservative paper, has been growing steadily at the same time the Times declines.

With the internet alternative for news, the only ones who will be left buying papers will be hard-core liberals. Even my two elderly uncles now have computers and the internet. The outfits that thrive online will be almost infinitely leaner than a typical newspaper operation. Once someone figures out a good online way to produce local news there won't be any use for an old fashioned newspaper. All the national and international content (mostly AP) is already available everywhere online and is so biased as to be worthless.

Some people need to be fired ....
Not Just Print Media

Check out the Toronto Star's stock price

"The 442,000 tonnes of newsprint consumed by U.S. daily newspapers in May was the lowest monthly total in at least two and-a-half years ..."

http://tinyurl.com/4jcfhp

ron in kelowna at June 28, 2008 11:17 AM:

Do you think that really matters? My Windows machine crapped-out on me so I followed-up and re-typed it on my Mac. I'm lucky in the sense that I have an alternative - most dont.

is it that paper's quality is going down hill

or

is it that their poor quality is now apparent because of alterate sources, and people are fed up having been used for suckers by the dead tree'rs all this time?????

The problem for the MSM is we know all there tricks by now. In fact some bloggers employ them regularly online. Once the Media was de-mystified, that was the beginning of the decline. Than came the obvious bias that went unnoticed even by Reporters or Journalists until the public started comparing notes online. Analyzing pictures & finding real documentation.

TV has developed into Hollywood Star worship, or reality segments of 15 minutes of fame for all. With the odd show for entertainment in a predictable formula. News is a joke. Radio fairs better in some way’s but its under attack, particularly when the liberal attempt at a Channel failed in dismal bankrupts.

Yet, they still have not caught on to the publics awareness of issues months before they even try to spin them. The web has changed it all.
When we post we have a 100 critics if wrong on a fact. Instantly. The MSM keeps thinking where all Marxists or socialist wannabes. They can’t conceive the other as anything but fringe status for any different thought. Even when they themselves have become the far edge of sanity. With monetary death approaching.

Like the beaver in a dead forest, they will die before moving on any ideology. Mean while they will take as many down with them as can be.

There is a term, coined by Dr. Chris Argyris: "skilled incompetence", which has yet to be worked on and expanded. In my opinion it applies where a manager is very good at dealing with the day to day routine but lacks the vision to bring new and creative ideas which expand a company's presence in the market place.

This from Dust My Broom:

Canadian ISPs Plan Full Net Censorship by 2012

A must read. (sorry, don't know how to link)
Let's keep our heads up.

Two ways to view thios:

1. Those poor bastards are being scrificed for preofit, rather than the company keeping the propaganda hicks going, and losing money hand over fist.

2. The paper is losing money hand over fist becuase the hacks are not writing what the locals want to read

one step at a time. stephan dions carbon tax will directly affeck the price of newsprint. newsprint is the price of wood chips plus the cost of logs. who will they vote for: stephanie.............

Has the asteroid already arrived?

The great Blog has hit, blowing dust and debris into the rarefied atmosphere of MSM, gradually blocking out their way, their truth, and their light.

We no longer have to come to them to get to the father.

"Deep job cuts, outsourcing and more asset sales coming as the newspaper industry retrenches"
One good quote is :-"They're in survival mode now," said Mike Simonton, a media analyst at Fitch Ratings, a credit analysis agency.

"We had very grim expectations for the sector," Simonton said, and publishers have either met or surpassed his estimates for how bad the results would be." Ya think!
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080629/newspapers_cutbacks.html?.v=3

Here is a link to Glenn Reynolds and a great quote from one of his readers:http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/021078.php