Singleton: Newspapers need to get with the times

http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2008/06/02/daily18.html?b=1212465600%5E1644792&surround=etf


I guess he wants everyone to think People magazine.

 

Hey-- it was Zell's idea to put puppies on A-1.

 

Lot of good ideas in there from Lean Dean ... oh, wait, he doesn't have any bright ideas, just criticism.

 

You noticed that too?

We need to give the readers what they want, dammit! Just as soon as we figure out what that is.

 

Perhaps Lean Dean should focus more on taking care of the people he already has and less on acquiring newspapers and laying off people? That would make too much sense.

 

This sounds like a warning bell for MNG people (or am I wrong?):

 

More consultants...

 

You are not wrong, Bud.

In the poker world, you would call this a "tell." Any time a company brings in a Bain, a McKinsey, an Accenture, a Deloitte and Touche or any other consulting firm, many somebodies are going to lose their jobs.

That's what these firms do. They come in, poke and sniff around, then to justify their existences (not to mention the fat fees they're getting), they recommend that X number of people exit the premises to "protect the bottom line."

Picture the Bobs on "Office Space" and you know what I'm talking about. There's more reality in that element of the movie than anything else (well, save for Gary Cole's Lumberg).

 

Birdscribe is, of course, right.

 

Dean wants to discard old ideas. How about if he discards this one? Cutting jobs for the bottom line.

 

This train is never, ever, ever late.