Submit a question to ask at my 'State of the Paper' meeting tonight

Page 3 girls = profit!

 

The scary thing is, they probably spent 15 hours in focus groups and thousands of dollars in readership surveys to figure that out.

And then, they'll cut the newsroom staff by 25% to help you in the process of giving the customers what they want.

 

"Do you start your own car?"

 

"Did you know how easy it is to take out the brakes in someone's car?"

 

"What's a nubian?"

 

He's the guy who's not getting laid off.

 

Wow.

 

The last time I heard our publisher and general manager address some of the newsroom's questions, they explained how car ad revenue, mall ads and job fairs were going to be the focus of the advertising campaign. It made me think, rhetorically, how is relying on car ad revenue at a time when gas prices are the highest in history, when malls are consolidating their stores and the people looking for what few jobs available are the ones you just fired a sensible way to pursue ad revenue? How about coming up with a new idea?

 

"Does this look infected to you?"

 

Is the calcified microwave-popcorn jism stuck to the interior of the microwave radioactive?

 

"Do you know what a blumkin is?"

 

"What's a eunuch?"

He's the guy who's not getting laid, period.

Or, if you prefer, he's the guy running the newsroom for the bean-counters.