Tribune Co. 'Chief Innovation Officer' Delivers More Laugh Lines

Jay, that's backwards.
Obits are newsroom generated. Death notices are paid, lines only. Funeral notices are just a revenue generator. Lines only, paid.

 

I think that is an old-fashioned model at a lot of places. At a lot of papers all obits are paid except maybe just a brief 2-3 line freebie.

The only non-paid obit would be a news story on a well-known person.

 

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2009/01/26/tribunes-abrams-fooled-by-years-old-spoof

Jeebus freebing Criminy

 

Simon, it's not Lee Abrams fault that all his synapses aren't firing. Don't be so mean.

 

Execs don't want to hear, "we don't have the staff to do that." It takes lots of bodies to put out the Daily Miracle. If you want magazine type pieces to go with news pieces you better have more bodies than staffs have today. Or make everybody work 7 days a week and intimidate them into no overtime.

I'd like to see this innovator in a meeting with Tribune editors if they were free to tell it like it is and not kiss his butt. Logos? The Tribune runs enough logos throughout the years. Stuff in the same spot every day? For the most part pages in most papers are grouped topically very well. NBA, Baseball, Preps, etc. Scoreboard page.
And as far as we are writing for 70 year olds? You hear that a lot? What the fuck does that mean?
I'm sure newspapers like the Tribune that cover the Bears, Blackhawks, Cubs, White Sox are just covering the stories that need to be covered. They are not writing for some 70 year old.
I mean the guy covering Piniella isn't thinking, "I'll now put this together for my 70 year old grandfather." What the fuck?

 

If you read those posts rationally and/or skeptically, you will, after the some 45", start slamming your head against the desk. And that's after already throwing up on said desk.
Pure nonsensical, non-sequituring piffle.

 

Abrams is a great example of someone with way too much time on his hands.

 

How much time is there left, after all the necessary "Yessir, Mr. Sam, sir . . " s?

 

Proof that there still is some fat on the bone in newspapers.

 

By and large, at or near the top.

 

Lee Abrams basically founded AOR radio. For that alone, he should be hanged. This crap he's doing now -- holy Jeebus.

 

His use of a bogus quote in a memo is like a recent memo when he suggested Tribune-owned local TV stations need to have a crime reporter who dresses up like Columbo "in a rumpled sweater."

Wonder if he's fine with Tribune Company's reporters getting "close" but not quite accurate.