Business model imploding. I find it funny that literally weeks after claiming all is well and good, the top of the chain takes a haircut. I just hope they survive long enough for the Cavs to win the NBA Finals – the sports section is about the only part of the newspaper I read with [...]
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Convene a blogger ethics panel. Plain Dealer editor Susan Goldberg presides over the worst newspaper website this side of 1997, it’s not Web 2.0, it’s Web 0.3. It’s so bad that the only people who regularly spend any real time there are, you guessed it, insane bigoted lunatics with a lot of time on their hands [...]
Monday, March 23, 2009
Tick tock. During meetings with employees Monday, Publisher and President Terrance C. Z. Egger announced that full-time non-union employees will take 10 days of unpaid leave between April 20 and Oct. 4. Full-time and part-time non-union employees will see their first $50,000 of pay cut by 8 percent and any additional pay cut by 10 percent as [...]
Monday, March 9, 2009
Looks like the Time Magazine blurb about the PD disappearing in 2009 caught PD publisher Terrance Egger’s eye. But Egger said The Plain Dealer and its parent corporation, Advance Publications, remain committed to producing news both in print and online. “Every plan we have for the immediate future is to make that work,” he said. McIntyre said he [...]
Monday, March 9, 2009
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Here comes the next wave. Cleveland and Detroit lead the U.S. in commercial mortgage delinquencies, a sign the housing crisis that brought down Wall Street is spreading beyond the residential market…. Office, retail, apartment and industrial properties with mortgage payments 60 days late or more rose to 3.93 percent as of March in the Cleveland area and [...]
Monday, March 9, 2009
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Via Jill, um….wow. Even this PD-obsessed blogger never imagined the PD could be in such bad shape that a national news magazine basically declares them the walking dead.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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I’ve been nothing but a snarky son of a bitch with regard to the Plain Dealer, my hometown newspaper, true. Of course, I have a reason to be, both personal and professional. But I watch the decline of the industry closely, not just out of morbid voyeuristic fascination with the death spiral, but because I, [...]
Sunday, February 8, 2009
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In what can only be described as a pathetic defense of his dying industry, Ted Diadiun really outdoes himself in this morning’s Sunday PD. It literally starts from the very first sentence. As the saying goes, there are two things everyone knows how to do better than the person who’s doing it: Manage a baseball team [...]
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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The PD’s art “critic” Steve Litt came down off his high horse for 35 seconds to notice Loren Naji’s street art unveiling of Barack Obama in Gunsmoke. Litt is not impressed. It’s no secret that Cleveland artist Loren Naji detests former president George W. Bush and is very glad to see him go. At Asterisk Gallery in [...]
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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One of the most fun things about watching the PD slowly die is the endless stream of “seminars” being created “for” the recently unemployed…which charge admission. Greatness.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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