posted June 22, 2011 09:05 AM            

You know if the only thing you have to sell the public is information and the vast majority of the public think you're lying to them, they're not going to buy your paper.

Advertising rates are tied directly to subscriptions. So, when subscriptions to newspapers fall off the cliff so do advertising revenues.

When only 21% of Pew Poll responders believed all or even most of what the NY Times prints as news, that's big trouble. The Associated Press was even lower.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of drooling propaganda artists and political activists posing as journalists.

Gannett Announces Newspaper Layoffs
By Darryl L. Flowers
Published: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 4:19 PM CDT
UPDATED, 3:17PM MST: List of Gannett sites and the number of employees cut at that property follow the story.

Today, Bob Dickey, President of Gannett's U.S. Community Publishing Division, announced today in a confidential company memo that the divison was cutting its' workforce by 2%.

The Sun Times has obtained a copy of the memo, which was posted on an unofficial employee blog.

The move is expected to affect 700 workers at the company's newspaper operations across the nation.

This is the largest layoff by the media giant since 2009, when 1400 jobs were cut. This will make the 4th round of cuts since 2008.

By mid-day it was revealed that the Gannett paper in Cincinnati, OH had cut at least 15 workers; The Indianapolis Star had let 11 employees go. In Phoenix, AZ, the Publisher of the Arizona Republic announced the shutdown of the Phoenix Offset plant in Chandler. The plant was one of several USA Today print facilities. That closure will put 40 workers in the unemployment lines.

Gannett has over 32,000 employees worldwide, 22,000 work in U.S. Newspapers. Gannett operates the Great Falls Tribune.

Site and their reported cutbacks reported so far:

Appleton, and all other Wisconsin operations - 4

Asbury Park, N.J., 3

Asheville, N.C., 14

Binghamton, Elmira, Ithaca, N.Y., 5% wage cut

Brevard, Fla., 5

Cherry Hill, N.J, 1

Cincinnati, 13

Clarksville, TN, 5

Des Moines, IA, 12

Fort Collins, CO, 9

Fort Myers, FL, 14

Great Falls, MT,

Greenville, S.C., 5

Indianapolis, IN, 25

Lafayette, IN, 5

Lansing, MI, 2

Louisville, KY, 36

Monroe, LA, 27

Montgomery, AL, 4

Nashville, TN 24

Palm Springs, Calif., 6

Phoenix, AZ, 40

Rochester, N.Y., 12

Salisbury, Md., 5

Sioux Falls, S.D., 12

Springfield, MO, 4

Tallahassee, FL 12

Westchester, NY, 30

Wilmington, DE, 3

posted June 22, 2011 12:08 PM            

things are changing, jwhop. it's not all political, much is plain technology. and now we have solar power available without panels, and other technologies changing exponentially toward a cleaner, cheaper future! personally i like holding a newspaper (and doing the crossword in some) like i like to hold a book. but i understand things are moving away from the printed page just as things are moving away from the need for mining oil and coal.

i agree with you that legislation is not necessarily the best way to proceed with this, but government seems to evolve slower than most fields.

posted June 23, 2011 10:44 AM            

They came to this conclusion way back in the late 1990's after they had gone all out to protect their most favorite lying leftist demoscat...Kommander Korruption, aka Bill Clinton.

This information came out of the Pew Poll organization and is somewhere on this forum. Damned if I'm going to go find it...just to enlighten you.

So, you can believe whatever you wish. But, when I saw that Pew Poll, years ago, I predicted it spelled big trouble for the NY Times, Washington Post, Associated Press..and others when only 21% of poll respondents believed "All" or even "Most" of what the NY Times printed as news.

posted June 28, 2011 09:04 AM            

The Pew Poll clearly showed that only 21% of respondents believed "All" or "Most" of what the NY Times prints as news.

Oh, and whatever happened to your threat to go straight to the Pew organization to get support for your nonsense version of what that Pew Poll really meant?

posted June 29, 2011 06:16 PM            

Embarrassed smiley is right.

Edit: Here's the original: http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum16/HTML/001559-2.html

posted June 29, 2011 10:03 PM            

Pew Poll results showed only 21% of respondents believed All or Most of what the NY Times prints as "news".

Your problem acoustic is that you don't know what Most means in the English language.

Hint acoustic!

Most, as used in the Pew Poll, is an indefinite quantifyer...meaning more than half.

posted June 30, 2011 11:43 AM            

but surely at heart an opportunistic post that in of itself demonstrates how to spin?!

That we are also afforded mention of the Kommander, a poll, and leftist propaganda, is purely icing.

posted June 30, 2011 11:48 AM            

That some of the same tired *and lost* arguments of the OP are SIX YEARS OLD!!!!!!

is amazing....I had no idea.