Comments on: Alabama Journalist Let Go in DC

By: Michael B

Michael B — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:14:33 +0000

The chickens are coming home to roost. My publisher kept saying they couldn’t afford salaries while buying up apartment complexes. His main profitability scheme was hire new grads and fire them after there car was used up and they couldn’t afford a new one. Some business model. I was happy to see those 40 percent profitability numbers come down. It might suck for democracy but it is just rewards for treating readers and employees like morons to victimize.

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Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:06:58 +0000

[...] I am no longer a reporter. I was one until I got caught up in the Bush Depression and the tectonic shift undergoing the national and world economies. That is, until a few weeks ago when The Hollywood Reporter, my employer for 16 years, laid me off. [...]

By: admin

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:14:27 +0000

This just in from Atlanta.

The newspaper industry is the milk man of the 21st century. (Do you remember the “milk man” delivering milk to homes during the early 1960’s?) Newspapers are going to become like eight track tapes or shoe cobblers. The profession is dead.

A friend told me last night that the Atlanta Journal Constitution will announce layoffs and buyouts at the end of the week. (This guy is expecting to be laid off after 22 years service.) It’s terrible.

Thanks for the news. I’ll talk with you soon…