Another good one to Yahoo

[Columbo]

'Mommy, what's a newspaper?'

'Oh, gosh, well, it was paper and it came to the door in the morning, and OH! Grandma saved one for you in that big trunk, with the VHS tapes and the funny phone you plug into a wall and the empty bag of processed spinach! Go look!'

What is most frustrating is that newspapers should be figuring out how to capitalize on the Web transition - the world will always need journalists.

Instead, we have people actually fighting - it's unbelievable really - to preserve the "sanctity of the print product." While meanwhile people get laid off every day because of needless dollars poured into production costs.

Of course those needless production dollars put food on the tables of pressmen all over the country.

Amen.

And why don't we layoff advertising lazy-asses who sit on the phone and do nothing but maintain a news hole to ad balance, and in doing so, limit the entire product?

Dumb shit.

 

[EStreetJoe]

What is most frustrating is that newspapers should be figuring out how to capitalize on the Web transition - the world will always need journalists.

The turnaround for newspapers comes online, and it comes when online managers and editors are in charge and the old-guard print managers and editors adapt before their shells are cast aside.

The other half of the turnaround will come when the advertising people figure out how to convince local businesses to adapt to web advertising.
We had a paper-wide meeting yesterday to discuss some benefits changes and I heard the advertising people talking about how some local advertisers prefer the print coupon which they know will be seen by their target market - people within 20-30 miles of the store; instead of the people 200+ miles away that would be viewing the ad on the web. Until you can convince the local restauranteers, service providers, and stores that the web will help their community grow as much as print ads do, you'll have a problem with generating web ad revenue.

 

[sporting_guista]

Yahoo becoming the new "National"?

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

I thought it was an interesting read by Woj.

There's nothing wrong with letting Stern have his say in this instance without calling him on it. I was interested in what Stern had to say, and I'm not generally all that interested in the NBA.