gannett plans to layoff 3,000 by december.

Those billboards, we call them carousels... are useless. Fucking slays me. Get all three stories on at once. People would rather have to scroll, than to have stories flashing on and off the screen. And yeah People's Choice Awards not a good choice. There is a paper I read a lot that had a billboard with 3 AP stories the other day. ALL three. Then all the top updates, six of the eight were AP. No wonder.

 

Isn't it about time we brought this thread to a close? It's well past stale.

 

Well, since they are reportedly about to lay off another huge number in February, probably not.

Though the title should probably be changed.

 

If for no other reason than to make lay off two words.

 

I know this is a morbid thought.....

But how many lay-offs, buy-outs, newspapers closing do you think will take place in 2009? Could it be worse than 2008?

 

I'm going to guess it's going to be much worse than 2008. Have you been following the automobile industry's problems? That's newspapers in 2009. Some of it will be self-inflicted (cutting the paper's size, laying off good writers, putting everything on the web for free), but most of it will be because everyone is convinced nobody WANTS to read a newspaper anymore.

And Americans are sheep. And what the shepherds (national media, talking heads) tell them, they'll believe it.

 

If retail didn't have to advertise going out of business sales, newspapers would be in even deeper ka-ka.

 

And don't forget Wall Street. A shepherd's herd if there ever was one.

 

That's pretty damn pathetic, when you're biggest advertiser is the one advertising going out of business sales.

I guess it means the newspaper will be the last business in town to fold, the day after the last of the going out of business sales conclude.

 

LOL!

Now COL (crying out loud).