Finally! Some Good News!

[Moondoggy]

Media companies fared extremely well on Wall St. today. Basically, market says, "Well, August didn't totally suck." ;D


http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/new-york-times-shares-jump/story.aspx?guid=%7B7D6563C3%2DBE08%2D4E26%2DB6E9%2D37E37A6053E9%7D

 

[tonysoprano]

And I should get excited why?

 

[SF_Express]

And I should get excited why?

Dude, any good financial news in the media companies is a plus right now.

 

[tonysoprano]

No, good financial news over an extended period is good news.

This is like my grandpa telling my grandma he didn't have any gas today. So what. So we should throw a party??

 

[The Granny]

No, good financial news over an extended period is good news.

This is like my grandpa telling my grandma he didn't have any gas today. So what. So we should throw a party??

We used to back in ought-four.

 

[tonysoprano]

Hahahaha. Good one Granny.

 

[Moondoggy]

And I should get excited why?

Because you can dump your media stock at less of a loss now.

 

[tonysoprano]

I suppose that's one way of looking at it (though quite cynical). ;)

Here's what makes me laugh (and it somewhat ties into internet talk) - I get these mass e-mails that one of the higherups sends throughout the paper. This individual breaks out the pom-poms and pats him/herself on the back because of how many views and hits our website gets. But here's the thing - If it's not making a profit, who cares?

 

[Football_Bat]

Dead-cat bounce.

 

[terrier]

Comes a little late for me. There are buyouts and layoffs at my place, and I'm in the crosshairs.

 

[pressboxer]

I suppose that's one way of looking at it (though quite cynical). ;)

Here's what makes me laugh (and it somewhat ties into internet talk) - I get these mass e-mails that one of the higherups sends throughout the paper. This individual breaks out the pom-poms and pats him/herself on the back because of how many views and hits our website gets. But here's the thing - If it's not making a profit, who cares?

One question I've always had about page views is how many of them are newspaper management types constantly refreshing to see the latest comments on whichever topic is hottest? At one place I worked, the AME sent out a memo telling us that all staff members were supposed to have the paper's site as their home page and any time we googled something, we were supposed to do it through the home page. I hit the delete button and went about my business.

 

[steveu]

Along those same lines - ya, it's way too late to help those in the crosshairs (especially Scott Carter, who could have used this good news in Tampa), but Media General reported much better August results.

Link: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003852369

 

[Joe Williams]

I suppose that's one way of looking at it (though quite cynical). ;)

Here's what makes me laugh (and it somewhat ties into internet talk) - I get these mass e-mails that one of the higherups sends throughout the paper. This individual breaks out the pom-poms and pats him/herself on the back because of how many views and hits our website gets. But here's the thing - If it's not making a profit, who cares?

One question I've always had about page views is how many of them are newspaper management types constantly refreshing to see the latest comments on whichever topic is hottest? At one place I worked, the AME sent out a memo telling us that all staff members were supposed to have the paper's site as their home page and any time we googled something, we were supposed to do it through the home page. I hit the delete button and went about my business.

That's funny. Isn't there some software that prevents too many clicks from the same computer from being counted? I think it was written for precisely this problem, people artificially running up their page views in order to bilk advertisers or fool bosses.

 

[Stitch]

If the newspaper is using Google Analytics, it won't count of those refreshes.

 

[bp6316]

I suppose that's one way of looking at it (though quite cynical). ;)

Here's what makes me laugh (and it somewhat ties into internet talk) - I get these mass e-mails that one of the higherups sends throughout the paper. This individual breaks out the pom-poms and pats him/herself on the back because of how many views and hits our website gets. But here's the thing - If it's not making a profit, who cares?

One question I've always had about page views is how many of them are newspaper management types constantly refreshing to see the latest comments on whichever topic is hottest? At one place I worked, the AME sent out a memo telling us that all staff members were supposed to have the paper's site as their home page and any time we googled something, we were supposed to do it through the home page. I hit the delete button and went about my business.

Almost all places have systems in place to prevent that from happening. Now, that is a generalization, and there are plenty of ways around it. But, for the most part, internal traffic isn't counted.

 

[SF_Express]

Look, I know things are awful, and a lot of people here have been affected in terrible ways.

I'm just saying that any kind of positive news and rebound MIGHT mean we get less of the terrible news in the near future or even beyond. You take what you can get in the industry right now, right? It might mean we've reached or at least are reaching some kind of bottom.

Don't know, just seems possible to me.