Comments on: Paper cuts.

By: LA Mary

LA Mary — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:36:50 +0000

Catherine, you just recreated my shopping list from Trader Joe’s last night.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:12:38 +0000

R.I.P. John Byrne, lead singer of the Count Five (anyone remember “Psychotic Reaction”?).

By: alex

alex — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:47:37 +0000

And the cavalierness about shooting up a school. It’d never play in America these days.

By: nancy

nancy — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:29:29 +0000

Yes, basset. My takeaway from the same clip is, “I’m so old my pussy is haunted.” Still chuckling.

By: Gasman

Gasman — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:52:06 +0000

basset,
Thank you for the video link. I have now entered the phrase “infuriating little piss-weasels” into my personal lexicon. I expect that it will see it’s rightful place in my vocabulary’s rotation quite soon. (Scroll to 8:40 in the video above.)

By: basset

basset — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:56:20 +0000

Meanwhile, one of the better rants you’ll see about the current state of the newspaper business – play the first video at:

http://www.b-roll.net/forum/showthread.php?p=212583#post212583

and scoot it forward to 3:02.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:07:55 +0000

We all need butter. And bacon. And chocolate. At least until after the solstice.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:54:49 +0000

Yeah, i should have remembered Jim’s gannettblog for that. It’s indicative of the general ill health of the Detroit economy that the Freep ends up such an outlier in 07, let alone now.

But i’m still a little baffled — NNCO, f’r instance, includes the Newark paper (or does in every statement i’ve gotten over the last decade), so is the profitability figure for NNCO include Newark, which is then also listed sep, or am i missing something?

Sadly, this maintains my general if not Detroit point that newspapers are making a fair amount of money, just not as much as their overleveraged buyers expect. And the income from plain vanilla circ is so little that it makes sense to peel off a chunk of the delivery and production cost, having no doubt warned the advertisers that there’s going to be change, but don’t expect a reduction in ad rates if you bought the full print/online package.

Maybe the Freep needs butter.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:18:47 +0000

I used to write for trade magazines. It was expected that you’d accept gifts and then write effusively about them.

By: moe99

moe99 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:48:27 +0000

a pretty darn good youtube video put together by an advertising firm, far as I can tell. Wonder if this will get them any business?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC9ftIE8XRQ

Then, I hope these guys are invited to the inauguration parade. From Plymouth, Michigan, the Fred Hill briefcase drill team:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAAiocc5zjQ