Gone, Wisconsin: McGinn, Gardner leave Journal-Sentinel

Gannett is at 8.62 as of now. That's down 46 percent from last year.

It's staggering to me that people still believe this is corporate greed and money-hoarding. There. Is. No. Money.

 

When I started at Gannett, the stock was close to $50. By the time I left, it was less than $2.

Maybe it was all my fault.

 

There's the NYT, LA Times, WaPo, WSJ and (maybe) USA Today. There's a bunch of weekly Podunk Pennysavers. Every print newspaper in between is in some degree of hospice care. They're gonna die. I take no delight in that fact, but it is true.

 

I never really worked in this business. Went to school for it, still do some freelance but decided in 2009 when I graduated to sell out and go corporate. A lot of people were warning me off of it then, and I clucked. It worked out ok for me I guess, but I still have some romantic moments where wonder what could have been...

Every time I see something like this and just listen to you guys talk about the business I feel a little bit better about what I did.

The JS is my paper and I'm going to miss Bob's stuff. Like someone else said, he wasn't the touchy feely guy, he was the nuts and bolts. His draft coverage is the best I've ever read. I read his Super Bowl book in one sitting.

 

It's corporate stupidity if anything. Of course there's no money. The product is grade school bad now. It's a combination of things but the bottom line is the product. It's trash.

 

That's why it's a struggle to work hard for Gannett. As a reporter I want to provide the community with the best stories, important information, content. Get young people's stories out there. Gannett doesn't care about it's readers which says it all. The same thing that frickin' sells in Milwaukee doesn't sell in Stevens Point...but the shared content is 90 percent of the paper.

 

This is good. Fuck'em.

 

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Instructions to save part of the industry (which is why this should be taken with a chuckle.. because it can't be saved): Take right hand, turn gun to your left, raise it to temple. Fire. Fire again. Fire again. Fire a fourth time so that, like defending against a rattlesnake, you are sure it took. Repeat. Daily. Start in pubby offices. Before doing so, though, rescind outrageous ballon payments and other high-dollar checks scheduled to be issued to the morons who killed the industry. Carry on.

 

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Well that's good to know McGinn left on his own. I trust him. He wouldn't lie. He obviously took the buyout which he should at 65 for goshsakes.