USA Today and The Tennessean to hire "video-forward reporter" to cover Taylor Swift

Wait … he GOT a FUCKING HAIRCUT?<crossthreadwithBubbler>

 

If that guy’s newsroom produced work that people actually cared about then they’d still have jobs.
Nobody likes to hear it, but if your work isn’t bringing in eyeballs or subscribers, you’re the problem in the equation, not the company.

 

I didn't work with Brad, but I was in that newsroom when GateHouse bought us in 2016. Within 6 months they cut my staff in half. Within two years the newsroom was cut to almost nothing. Circulation had dropped from 16,000 to 9,000 when I was "eliminated" in 2019. Our circulation department had been gutted, which meant delivery problems were overwhelming. The ad department had been gutted.
Sorry, asshole, we weren't the problem in the equation.

 

You take your like and you get out of here.

 

Can't wait to hear the song she writes about Travis Kelce. To me, that's the only point of dating her - to get a song written about you.

 

Even the biggest pop stars in the world go through relative down cycles in popularity between albums and tours. We’re only two albums removed from Swift being less popular than she is today. Assuming she is going to remain at Eras Tour level popularity is extremely shortsighted.

 

This is no worse than Gannett's Asbury Park Press pumping out endless drivel about local guy Bruce Springsteen and his every burp, fart and bowel movement.

 

Gannett? Chasing trends and clicks? In this economy?!

 

You won’t believe what No. 6 is!

 

How long has her tour been going on? Many, many months, right? A year?

Why do this NOW, and not, ya know, before the fucking tour started? Is there some sort of exclusive access that will produce stories everyone else isn't already writing? Will the reporter be allowed to be critical and not fear losing whatever access might be there? (Much like the lapdogs covering golf who never wanted to cross Tiger Woods for fear of losing access. My question was, WHAT FUCKING ACCESS?).

Typical Gannett. Jump in with a dumb idea when it's past being useful. Forget the fact the shitbox company is one of the main drivers behind the death of local news. But Taylor Swift! Nothing against her, mind you. My niece is a Swifty.

So glad I got away from that steaming pile of a company many years ago.

 

Here's a New York Times story on this. Taylor Swift and Beyoncé Get Their Own Press Corps