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Post by Clipper on Jun 18, 2024 8:27:30 GMT -5
wibx950.com/you-know-its-bad-when-a-newspaper-icon-admits-local-news-is-dead/Circulation was dropping way back in 2000 when I worked there and everyone was under pressure to recruit subscribers. District managers were on the road trying to find commercial accounts that would sell the paper in their retail establishments and carriers were becoming hard to find. Nobody wanted the job because the pay to the carriers was so low, and employees that worked in the building were also becoming hard to find due to low pay. Transportation and circulation were constantly trying to hire and people just didn't stay when they found out what they at taken on and t he pay.
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Jun 18, 2024 9:06:42 GMT -5
In today's paper it said no paper delivery on Wednesday because of Black holiday so the paper will be mailed and you will get in on Thursday. LOL, by then even the comics are old news.
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Post by BHU on Jun 18, 2024 10:24:41 GMT -5
That's funny coming from her considering she helped to run the OD into the ground, running fluff pieces such as "The Gardens Of Herthum Heights" as front page news instead of investigative reporting which should be one of a newspaper's main focus. A newspaper publisher should not be playing footsie with local politicians. 'Nuff said.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 18, 2024 13:15:20 GMT -5
From the time they started, the focus of newspapers has been to attract eyes to advertising. News, comics, social gossip, weather forecast, recipes; all were brought to you by people who wanted to sell you cars or furniture or groceries or who wanted to hire you. The amount you paid to have it delivered to your door covered the cost of the paper it was printed on. Everything else and everyone else was paid by selling ads for cars, food, furniture, available jobs, houses for sale, apartments for rent, whatever. Anyone who tried to make a living as an "investigative reporter" might be able to eat once a month.
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Post by BHU on Jun 18, 2024 15:08:38 GMT -5
If a reporter is on staff at a newspaper does there job entail selling cars & lawn mowers or is it to report the news & inform readers of what's happening in their community?
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Jun 18, 2024 15:33:16 GMT -5
I never liked the words : observer or dispatch. Maybe they will do better using Gazette. That has more of a 16th Century ring to it. Plus it goes well with coffee and croissants.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 20, 2024 5:38:08 GMT -5
If a reporter is on staff at a newspaper does there job entail selling cars & lawn mowers or is it to report the news & inform readers of what's happening in their community? The reporter's job is to write something which will attract readers. That will attract advertisers and he will get paid. If he loses sight of that his reporting will be done for free on the internet. |
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 20, 2024 5:52:46 GMT -5
Barb and Donna met when they were both volunteers for the Stephen Ministry at St. John's. Have I mentioned that Barb has a bit of a take charge personality. She ended up being boss and handing out assignments to Donna and the others. Donna actually has a compassionate side which wasn't always apparent to her employees.
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Jun 20, 2024 9:34:55 GMT -5
Just think today people will receive two newspapers. One delivered late do to holiday by USPS and the other on time for a Thursdays read.
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