Comments on: Scare Tactics in Boston

By: Print Media’s Five Suicidal Assumptions @ Chicago News Bureau

Print Media’s Five Suicidal Assumptions @ Chicago News Bureau — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:02:57 +0000

[…] shared with me Friday by the staff of the Anonymous Lectern (ironically enough, the same day the New York Times threatened to close the Boston Globe), together with the almost-verbatim riot act I read the staff regarding […]

By: Print Media’s Five Suicidal Assumptions

Print Media’s Five Suicidal Assumptions — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:48:32 +0000

By: msbpodcast

msbpodcast — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:33:20 +0000

Oh Noes … Lifetime guarantees means something entirely different nowadays.

It means that if something breaks, the guarantor swings by and shoots you dead…

I NEVER buy anything that comes without it, but I NEVER buy it.

I don’t believe in encouraging them in the least.

By: Newspaper Fan

Newspaper Fan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:00:09 +0000

The Globe’s lifetime job guarantees have to be the biggest joke so far in the newspaper meltdown. 450 jobs guaranteed for life? Who’s idea was that? And worse, who signed off on it for the Globe? Can you get fired for not showing up for work with a lifetime job guarantee?

I’m sorry, 1993 after a recession was no reason to guarantee any job. They should have let them strike, if that was the option. And how can you take the Globe seriously when they have a sports staff traveling all over the country covering teams not even in their market? They are just dumb. Nobody needs to read two Globe staffers covering the Final Four when AP covers it just as well. How much do those trips, expenses and hotel rooms cost? Give me a break.

And after reading Roeper’s piece, I didn’t find it that bad. He basically is saying what we already knew. Most columnists are celebrities more than writers. Just look at the Globe’s Bob Ryan. His newspaper job has led to tons of other employment on TV.