Huge layoffs across McClatchy newspapers today, with some newsrooms gutted by a third. An internal email from management says consumer revenue has dipped 41% and “we cannot continue investing where subscriber interest does not support the investment”
Did not know who they were. Found this. “The company’s own stated opinion principles explicitly include “advocating for social justice” and “an end to systemic racism and inequality,” which signals a liberal institutional orientation.”
Go woke, go broke.
~indifferent shrug~
This of course is bad news. I’m holding back the tears. I would offer advice but someone taught AI how to code. And now they’re building robot baristas … call centers are out … HVAC, plumbing, electrical – but am I expecting too much? An ass crack and purple hair? The Earth is forging a new path. People will get left behind.
https://www.eliterobots.com/solutions/barista
6 mos min ROI. thats gotta be eye catching for some, try it out in one location, it works fire the humans. technology wins, luddites lose again as they always do, at least eventually. nxt up? Can Post.
Who could have predicted that people would grow tired of being lied to, preached at and insulted?
Readership is gone, good.
Now if the Board of Directors and Marketing Dept. of major retailers and manufacturers would stop advertising this stupid shit, whole newspaper/chains would collapse.
Board of Directors, New Rule: If your HR and Marketing support this shit, fire them and get some humans in there that understand consequences.
“Huge layoffs across McClatchy newspapers today, with some newsrooms gutted by a third.”
Oh noes! How awful.
My next band, One Third Gutted.
Talk really is cheap.
So is GYM, cheapest man whore in North America!
Don’t get too excited folks, the government subsidy cupboard is still not bare, I mean hey, if they report the right news,,,wait the LEFT news there may be hope.
Vast swaths of forest would be clear cut before Liberals stop media subsidies.
skill testing Q: for the remaining: what’s greater, 1/3 or 1/4?
(they look at the 3, look at the 4, conclude 4 is greater than 3,
therefore 1/4 must be greater than 1/3)
l just got another joke for my open mic standup routine.
As stated often, you can’t hate these people enough!
Evergreen:
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, “by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only.” Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it’s benefits, than is done by it’s abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knolege with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time; whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables. General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, &c., &c.; but no details can be relied on. I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.
Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into 4 chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short, as it would contain little more than authentic papers, and information from such sources as the editor would be willing to risk his own reputation for their truth. The 2d would contain what, from a mature consideration of all circumstances, his judgment should conclude to be probably true. This, however, should rather contain too little than too much. The 3d & 4th should be professedly for those readers who would rather have lies for their money than the blank paper they would occupy.
– Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell – 1807