Reader comments: MediaOne lays off employees
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dinodino | 5:08 p.m. June 20, 2008
Newspaper biz is finished ... INTERNET is killing papers!!!
Stanasloss | 5:13 p.m. June 20, 2008
When the Kearns family owned the Trib... they took care of their employees... this is what happens with big out of state MediaNews... cold hearted.
Killing biz? Reinvent Self. | 5:22 p.m. June 20, 2008
You notice your industry is getting its lunch eaten by new technology, new competitive influences, newer, hungrier resourceful, smart workforce ... well, reinvent yourself and get competitive again!
The days of an industry resting on it's laurels/stability are over. Ford now needs to reinvent itself, IBM had to reinvent itself, many countries economies are reinventing themselves and getting people worldwide to buy many of their superior products.
Compete!
The days of an industry resting on it's laurels/stability are over. Ford now needs to reinvent itself, IBM had to reinvent itself, many countries economies are reinventing themselves and getting people worldwide to buy many of their superior products.
Compete!
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Stan is Lost | 5:37 p.m. June 20, 2008
Even the Kearns family wouldn't be able to sustain continued revenue hits the likes of 32%. These actions have less to do with who's running the show as to who is calling the shots (and it ain't newspapers). It's the internet.
kc | 5:55 p.m. June 20, 2008
You lost me in print when you went to the morning news. I only read print on Sunday now. By the time the paper is distributed, the news is a few days old, which I read it online a few days before.
Anonymous | 6:17 p.m. June 20, 2008
I just hope the Internet kills the Tribune before it kills the News.
I'd hate to have the last surviving paper being run by a bunch of bitter, angry Mormon/Republican haters.
I'd hate to have the last surviving paper being run by a bunch of bitter, angry Mormon/Republican haters.
Bart | 6:21 p.m. June 20, 2008
Another problem I see with newsprint, at least for me, is the lack of real investigative journalism. It has become the norm for someone to spill a story somewhere, and without any investigation, the story is passed on and on as though it were gospel truth. Reminds me of e-mails that are so far fetched and claim to be the absolute truth.
The lack of intense journalism is one of the root causes of the war mess we're in at the moment. Nobody really questioned anything. Bad for us? You bet!
The lack of intense journalism is one of the root causes of the war mess we're in at the moment. Nobody really questioned anything. Bad for us? You bet!
re: Bart | 8:31 p.m. June 20, 2008
Good call on the real journalism. Enough of Bob Bernick and Doug Robinson. They are as pitiful as writers can be. I don't believe in truly objective media, but with those guys it becomes a joke. Replace yokels like these two with journalists, and you start renewing your product so that people want to subscribe.
Maybe the financial solution for DN is to offer limited extracts of stories, but charge for the whole thing like the Wall Street Journal does.
Maybe the financial solution for DN is to offer limited extracts of stories, but charge for the whole thing like the Wall Street Journal does.
John | 8:38 p.m. June 20, 2008
They lost my subscription of in excess of ten years, when they refused to bring their paper to my porch, and instead have it tossed into the gutter.
Anonymous | 10:20 p.m. June 20, 2008
Maybe we need to give everyone a voucher so they can ....
Maybe we need a charter newspaper so there is more choice....
Maybe we need a charter newspaper so there is more choice....
Anonymous | 10:30 p.m. June 20, 2008
Anon 10:20,
Since government isn't funding newspapers like it does K-12 education, the voucher/charter comparison isn't relevant.
Since government isn't funding newspapers like it does K-12 education, the voucher/charter comparison isn't relevant.
Ding Dong the Paper's Dead | 10:36 p.m. June 20, 2008
Interesting that the only interactivity with the paper is via posting like this. Hmmm . . . wonder if they could learn something from those with successful blogs? I can see certain writers from both the News and the Trib being able to transform to that media if necessary. Bottom line is, the media business has changed and if the only constant in life/business is change, how has the News and Trib changed and is it enough? The answer is no based on the revenue report from the News. I'll say now you'll end up with only one paper in the end because even the LDS Church is not going to keep sinking money into a very bad business model. They are too smart for that.
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