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Las Vegas Review-Journal Staff Balks At Limits On Covering New Owner

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Neutral Corner, Jan 5, 2016.

  1. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Of course you can violate it, if you figure you're going to be out of a job one way or the other. You can violate it in the most public manner that would be the most embarrassing to Mr. Adelson, in fact. If you're a soon-to-be former employee, what's wrong with exercising a little civil disobedience along the way?
     
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  2. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Adelson should have SIDs write all his paper's stories.
     
  3. Fredrick

    Fredrick Well-Known Member

    Maybe. I guess that's a good option.
     
  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

  5. LanceyHoward

    LanceyHoward Well-Known Member

    I look at the RJ about five times a week. One thing I am watching with interest is the coverage of the potential Raiders move. Adelson is promising to invest 250 million in the enw stadium. While outright cheerleading has not quite broken out in the paper the reporting has been very superficial. I wonder if the paper would ask tough questions.

    I also have found it interesting that their log-time lead casinos and tourism writer, Howard Stutz. left right after the ownership change. I don't think his position has been replaced though I could be wrong. The guy who is currently writing the lead business stories had been the number two. Stutz used to a column and write some analytical pieces an those have gone missing.
     
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  6. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    You cheerlead today and then do one of those "What went wrong" Sunday cover stories when public opinion turns. Nobody really was asking Oakland what would happen if the Raiders didn't sell out their PSLs - it was assumed the project would pay for itself.
     
  7. LanceyHoward

    LanceyHoward Well-Known Member

    I was not reading the Oakland papers- I did not have internet- when the Raiders moved back to Oakland so I can not compare.

    But, to use PSL's as an example, the Raiders told a recent meeting of the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee that PSL's would fund 110 million of the stadium cost. A reasonable question to ask, then, is who pays if the PSL sales fall short.

    Three other questions that as far as I can tell remain unasked by the LVRJ are:

    1. Who pays maintenance costs of the proposed facility?
    2. Will there be some sort of clause requiring the taxpayers to maintain a "state of the art facility". That clause bit St. Louis big time.
    3. According to Field of Schemes various trial balloons have been floated about tax abatements. Are these on the table?
     
  8. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Not to mention figure what the parking/concessions and luxury suite split is both for football games and other events.
     
  9. LanceyHoward

    LanceyHoward Well-Known Member

  10. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Britney's wedding and Tiger's love of Perkins are the stuff of Pulitzers. But at least he's going out on his own terms.
     
  11. HappyCurmudgeon

    HappyCurmudgeon Well-Known Member

    Apparently Adelson is demanding the taxpayers chuck in $750 million of their own.
     
  12. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Do people in Vegas even wake up by 4 pm?
     
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