Dear dimwit on the phone

So giving money away with no visible benefit is more important to the paper than making sure it's fully staffed?

Yeah, sounds about right.

 

Exact reasoning? "It's driving people to our web product."

 

PM me the address where I can enter this contest and, since I don't read your newspaper, I can win the contest and send your bosses a thank you note letting them know they're idiots.

 

But is the contest sponsored by someone other than the paper?

 

Which generates no revenue, correct?

 

Nope, it's just a contest to promote the paper's web capabilities. It sickens me that people are out of work, yet all the managers get new electronic gadgets and now they are basically burning money and showing us the ashes to our face.

 

In some aspects, it probably does...but still, this is crap.

 

I guess the one thing I did not mention. You have to be a subscriber to play in this contest...but, still garbage.

 

this is a mind-boggling poor decision...unbelievable.

 

Yes, ma'am, we have printed Local University's basketball schedule in the paper. No, we didn't include TV information, because it's incomplete, and it could change as the season goes along. What's that? You haven't seen the schedule in the paper? Sigh. OK, I will print it again in tomorrow's paper. I'm sorry, what? Will I cut it out of the paper tomorrow and mail it to you? No, I will not do that.

 

Dear fan of playoff team coming to town,
No, I don't know what time the gates are opening for the game Friday. No, I don't know what the visitors' side is like, I sit in the press box. No, I don't know what parking's like, as long as my regular spot isn't taken. But if you're worried about all those things, just to be safe, I'd skip Thanksgiving dinner and any Black Friday shopping trips you had planned and get in line now!

 

Dear sir, I'm glad you didn't let Thanksgiving stand in the way of taking the day off from being an asshole.
It is not a mystery to me that you are alone on this holiday and can call the newspaper to complain about your alma mater's high school football team's accomplishments being disrespected.
As I mentioned several times, it's the coaches' association's all-state team, not the media's all-state team nor our all-area team, so you can stop screaming at me for not getting more players named to the team.
I know this is hard to believe, but the sports editor of the paper here in Podunk doesn't have a lot of pull with every high school football coach in the state.