Sorry if I don’t weep at what looks like another slow bleed for another pillar of the Mainstream Media.
We said goodbye to more than 70 Inquirer journalists today. This time we were spared the speeches from the departing about how everything will be all right.
Those who left got a buffet, heart-felt hugs and bracing applause. We sent them off with framed copies of the newspapers from the day they were hired – black and white sheets with names like Rizzo and Longstreth on them. All now gone.
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Publisher Joe Natoli and editor Amanda Bennett said how they’d hoped this day would never come, a day when 15 percent of the newsroom was paid to walk away early.
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“Don’t let corporate raiders liquidate the fourth estate,” John McManus headlined his letter. The only force that can stand up to Wall Street is that of Main Street, McManus wrote. The communities should threaten a boycott if new management or ownership sheds jobs or lowers pay to meet investors’ demands, he suggested. Higher returns would inevitably come at the expense of investigative reporting and independence from advertisers.
Boo hoo. Perhaps if they didn’t editorialize with every “news item” they write, their circulation wouldn’t be plummetting.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Our fourth estate lying media blaming corporate raiders for media demise? Figures, Marxists always blame everyone but themselves.
Libtards are starting to find out where their lies get them. Too bad you don’t, Puss.
Isn’t it interesting when the libs start losing BIG TIME, the Katrina Chickens have to pull the “Chickenhawk” slur out again?
PP = Living Proof: Those who can, blog. Those who can’t, troll.
LOL…..there’s two problems with that logic, Pussy.
1) As vote returns show, the US armed forces are overwhelmingly Republican; thus, Republicans ARE doing the bulk of the fighting.
2) You and your fellow Democrats aren’t running to enlist to fight in Afghanistan, which you allegedly support.
Here’s my favorite bit in the PI blog post:
“…communities should threaten a boycott if new management or ownership sheds jobs or lowers pay to meet investors’ demands…”
Let me make sure I got this straight now:
(1) The PI is in financial trouble. That means it can continue to exist, providing news and jobs, only if it immediately lowers the cost of that news, or of those jobs.
(2) Management is expected to somehow, miraculously, lower those costs without lowering them.
(3) If management does not possess such miracle powers, the PI’s readers and advertisers (the “communities”) will fix the situation by devastating the PI’s revenue stream – mounting a “boycott” that will obviously make cost/job cuts even more essential.
Riiiiiiiiiiight………
Well, I hope they do it. I hope they shoot themselves in the foot like that, and end by closing the PI. Purely because it will be fun to watch. 🙂
That’s the second leg down. Only have the Education-Industrial complex and the 9th Circuit Court left. This is going to be a great century!
I used to read the PI every day…then just on Sundays….now I just don’t care. We get it at home, but I just let it lie there when I pick-up the NY Times and the USA Today of the coffee table.
There’s nothing in it. They do a horrible job covering the Philly suburbs with any consistancy, and you would think that Southern Jersey didn’t exist some days…even reading the South Jersey edition. And their ideas of “hard-hitting journalism” falls flat if your in the ‘burbs…..like who cares about some bush-league scandel in the corrupt Roofers’ Union? We ALL KNOW they’re corrupt, get used to it.
Half the editorial content’s cribbed from the wire services or syndicated, and most of the ads are for stores and businesses I would never frequent. And most of the Sunday paper’s content was printed on Tuesday and Wednesday. When I lived in Philly 15-years ago, you could buy the Sunday Inquirer at the local convenience store at 2pm SATURDAY afternoon.
Let the poor thing just curl-up and die.
LOL…..there’s two problems with that logic, Pussy.
1) As vote returns show, the US armed forces are overwhelmingly Republican; thus, Republicans ARE doing the bulk of the fighting.
2) You and your fellow Democrats aren’t running to enlist to fight in Afghanistan, which you allegedly support.
(NDT, hope it’s cool with you. Pussy only merits a cut/paste response, as you know, and anyone can do it)
10 — Can you imagine what a day in the life of PP is like? I imagine a diary entry would go something like this: “Well, this morning, I woke up in my Chickenhawk bed. I went to the Chickenhawk bathroom. Checked the Chickenhawk mirror. Still no sign of Chickenhawk pubes. I poured a Chickenhawk glass of Chickenhawk orange juice and sat down to watch the Chickenhawk Today Show. (Matt Lauer is so hot. Damn that Chickenhawk restraining order!). Anyway, that got me worked up, so I started to choke the Chickenhawk right there in the kitchen. Meanwhile, the Chickenhawk toaster burned my Chickenhawk Eggo …”
More from the daily diaries of Pussy:
10:10 AM – Found an old GP thread, randomly called someone a Chickenhawk as if it made sense.
10:12 AM – Found another old GP thread, randomly called someone a Chickenhawk as if it mattered.
10:15 AM – Found another old GP thread, randomly called someone a Chickenhawk as if it connected with the subject matter somehow.
10:17 AM – Found another old GP thread, randomly called someone a Chickenhawk as if my life weren’t being wasted.
10:20 AM – Masturbation, followed by nap.
11:02 AM – Found another old GP thread, randomly called someone a Chickenhawk as if I didn’t have mental and emotional disorders.
11:06 AM – Found another old GP thread, randomly called someone a Chickenhawk as if I weren’t frittering my life away.
11:11 AM – Masturbation, followed by nap.
11:50 AM – Lunch. Burned my Chickenhawk toast for the Chickenhawk egg salad sandwich. Had a Chickenhawk burp.
12:12 PM – Found another old GP thread, randomly called someone a Chickenhawk even though the word has lost all meaning.
12:15 PM – Found another……
you get the idea
Oh yeah, and by the way:
3 Commissions absolved Bush of any misleadership on the Iraq success. Quote from the Commision documents otherwise, if you can.
Meanwhile, Real Marines (not cut-and-run surrender monkeys) speak truth to media power on Iraq:
The Marines were a fantastic audience. They were engaged and inquisitive on every point, and they were also genuinely concerned about the mainstream media’s preoccupation with negative news. They felt that it’s not that the negative stories — like casualty reports — shouldn’t be reported, but that we never hear what America is getting for this sacrifice. As one Marine put it, it’s like if I spent $7.99 for a slice of pizza and the headlines the next day read, “Marine Out Eight Bucks!”
http://media.nationalreview.com/082793.asp
(The Diaries of Pussy, continued)
12:15 PM – Found another……
12:27 PM – Thought about whether I should post Chickenhawk under one of my other Chickenhawk names, maybe Queer Patriot. Would that just confuse the Chickenhawk people? Or Chickenhawk me, for that matter?
12:29 PM – Masturbation, followed by nap.
1:11 PM – Technically, Queer Patriot *is* a separate Chickenhawk identity, since I carefully maintain multiple Chickenhawk personalities. But people expect Pussy as the Chickenhawk brand now, so I will stick with that.
1:14 PM – Found another old GP thread, randomly called someone a Chickenhawk as if a third party will find it persuasive, convert to my politics.
1:18PM – Found another old GP thread, …..
glisteny, I can’t prove this, but from the wording of a comment or two directed my way, he/she/it is ringing a bell as MAYBE the one who impersonated you awhile back….and from some other comments, possibly ringing a bell as Queer Patriot / Reader as well (who has been equally as obsessed with Chickenhawk in the past, I believe).
No problem at all, Calarato. That was partially my point. 🙂