Beware, Trentonian offering jobs that don't exist

You really are obsessed with Aaron. And, no, I am not a phony. I just read the thread and couldn't believe all of it. I've worked with Aaron. I remember when he did stringer work for AP. I like him, and I think he should be given a chance.
That's really it.

 

Chill, cat, chill. Your contributions are welcomed, as is your switching of the topic back to Aaron. For that, I thank you.

 

I have been saying that all along. Give him a chance to fuck up.

 

Boots, I think you and I finally reached a level of understanding several posts ago, so I am not bickering with you when I say this. But there would not be any bickering if people supporting the other side of the argument would just ignore this thread instead of responding, which leads to more responding and so forth.

It is clear that begging me or others to drop the subject is not working. If anything, it makes me less inclined to drop the subject. I enjoy their begging and pleading, and they are free as a bird to make those posts. Just like I am free as a bird to make mine. Point is, it doesn't make sense for these cats to say that we shouldn't be discussing AB when they jump in and start discussing him too.

Please don't re-start the let's-give-him-a-chance dance. You, I and others already played that game of bickering. Remember?

 

JRC chopping jobs in Ohio. Many many many more to come.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/technology/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003566039

 

Jelenic wants to save $9 million this year. How much more can they pare down their newspapers? The Trentonian's staff on Sunday night was 2 people in news (one of whom did the obituaries before he began paginating the section) and 3 in sports. The sports section consisted of 22 pages. There was an "inside" sports person who typed up some box scores and wrote the local wrap, but he jumped ship about an hour before the end of his scheduled shift, without telling anyone. The spinning chair was the only clue.

See the story:

http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUSN2928344420070329

 

"jumped ship," as in quit?

When you walk out of a catastrophically understaffed, chronically-deadline-blowing newsroom an hour before your shift is done, that's what it usually means. Which, of course would be just fine with Uncle Bob; $30-$40,000 more off that $9 million. Another day, another corpse floats down the river.

Incidentally, if he wanted to take a real dent out of that $9 million, he could cut his own bloated salary, but don't hold your breath for that to happen.

 

The person writing that story and the analysts following that stock don't know what we know - that JRC is a disaster. The value of the stock has dropped a lot in the past couple of years, and it isn't the woes of the newspapers overall, it is problems specific to management. There isn't going to be increasing revenues to carry the debt load.

 

I've done my tweaking of ol' Sand Trap Bracy, but the last couple of posts are why I keep tuning in. I would say JRC is a disaster, but that would indicate that it used to be something much, much better than it is.

It's gone from being a bad newspaper chain to a toxic newspaper chain -- an unimaginably horrible place to work. I don't think people like HeinekenMan realize what's at stake here. It's a tragedy for the families of people who work there.

 

you whisper shit like that in his ear when you spoon at night, don't you bootsie?

 

JRC is doing what every other chain over the years has done over the past few years and merged printing operations where it could. Newhouse/Advance did it last year with the Star Ledger and The Times (of Trenton).

 

Defending Bracy at this point is beyond ridiculous. I am quite sure that none of you having this little pity-party for poor Aaron have any idea what the hell is going on at there. By unanimous account the current regime (DeRienzo-Bracy) is the worst anyone has seen.

I wouldn't worry about his job security, anyway. It is quite certain he's going to outlast most of the staff, if not at the Trentonian then at some other horrid JRC rag. There are very few special henchmen who are up to the tasks that Bob requires and Aaron should have a long career ahead of him as a new JRC hatchetman.

As for the idea that alums are blasting the paper out of nostalgia for the good old days, give me a fucking break. There were never "good old days" under JRC. The first sports editor on the list that I provided earlier was flown in from Hawaii to interview for the job. They fired him a year later because we didn't cover Lee's first Little League tournament game. The difference is that the people on that list -- for the most part -- were not eager to ruin the lives of longtime staffers.