Six papers descend into CNHI hell

[OTD]

The six papers to be sold are: News-Times of Danbury, Conn.; The Daily Star of Oneonta, N.Y.; the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh, N.Y.; the Santa Cruz Sentinel in California; The Daily Item of Sunbury, Pa.; and the Traverse City Record-Eagle in Michigan.

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[Frank_Ridgeway]

Oh, man. A friend is editor of one of those papers. Poor *******.

 

[BYH]

Let me echo Frank. A good friend works at one of those papers. Fortunately, he's already looking to get out.

Too bad about The News Times too. That was always a solid small-town paper.

 

[slappy4428]

My first boss now works at the Record-Eagle and I know a few people there... It prides itself on being THE paper in NW Michigan... poor bastards...

 

[lapdog]

The six papers to be sold are: News-Times of Danbury, Conn.; The Daily Star of Oneonta, N.Y.; the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh, N.Y.; the Santa Cruz Sentinel in California; The Daily Item of Sunbury, Pa.; and the Traverse City Record-Eagle in Michigan.

Well, at least they didn't get sold to JRC.

Sort of like Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1938: your choices are to be overrun by Hitler, or Stalin. :o :o

 

[slappy4428]

The six papers to be sold are: News-Times of Danbury, Conn.; The Daily Star of Oneonta, N.Y.; the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh, N.Y.; the Santa Cruz Sentinel in California; The Daily Item of Sunbury, Pa.; and the Traverse City Record-Eagle in Michigan.

Well, at least they didn't get sold to JRC.

Sort of like Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1938: your choices are to be overrun by Hitler, or Stalin. :o :o

No, in a sense it's worse.
Worse you ask?
Yeah. These Northern papers aren't going to know what hit them. And, in Traverse City's case, the area's affluent aren't going to stand for it for long.

 

[Keystone]

Sunbury is a good paper with good people. Sorry to hear the news.

 

[lapdog]

The six papers to be sold are: News-Times of Danbury, Conn.; The Daily Star of Oneonta, N.Y.; the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh, N.Y.; the Santa Cruz Sentinel in California; The Daily Item of Sunbury, Pa.; and the Traverse City Record-Eagle in Michigan.

Well, at least they didn't get sold to JRC.

Sort of like Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1938: your choices are to be overrun by Hitler, or Stalin. :o :o

No, in a sense it's worse.
Worse you ask?
Yeah. These Northern papers aren't going to know what hit them. And, in Traverse City's case, the area's affluent aren't going to stand for it for long.

Well, what are they gonna do? Oakland County, Mich., has some of the highest per capita income in the nation, and they're putting up with the JRC ass-raping. I mean, everybody can't cancel their subscriptions all at once; it takes at least a couple of months to run all your readers off.

 

[ARD]

Oh, man. A friend is editor of one of those papers. Poor *******.

A friend of mine is editor at one of those papers, too. Yikes.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

My first boss now works at the Record-Eagle and I know a few people there... It prides itself on being THE paper in NW Michigan... poor bastards...

Of course, the only real competition TC has in NW Michigan would be Manistee and Ludington. And TC doesn't even hit those areas very hard.

 

[txsportsscribe]

how is it that chni can afford to be buying papers? i thought they were having problems with financing on quite a few of the papers they already own. did i just have bad info?

 

[SF_Express]

well, in the narrow knowledge I have, they've accrued the finances to do on this kind of thing because they're so horrifyingly cheap when it comes to anything involving, you know, people who work there.

 

[jfs1000]

Guys, don't know much about CNHI. Former JRC refugee, what is their M.O.?

 

[Chi City 81]

Guys, don't know much about CNHI. Former JRC refugee, what is their M.O.?

There's a thread about it somewhere. Someone aptly summed them up as JRC's retarded southern cousin. Their MO is cheap, cheap, cheap. Unlike JRC, however, there's no one figurehead (Jelenic) to play the role of the Spawn of Satan.

 

[djc3317]

Guys, don't know much about CNHI. Former JRC refugee, what is their M.O.?

In my experience, it was a crappy little chain with dimwitted, penny-pinching morons in positions of power. Granted, it was my first newspaper job, but I existed just above the level of abject poverty when i started out there.

 

[Ira_Schoffel]

Guys, don't know much about CNHI. Former JRC refugee, what is their M.O.?

In my experience, it was a crappy little chain with dimwitted, penny-pinching morons in positions of power. Granted, it was my first newspaper job, but I existed just above the level of abject poverty when i started out there.

Hey, I resemble that remark. *******.

 

[djc3317]

Guys, don't know much about CNHI. Former JRC refugee, what is their M.O.?

In my experience, it was a crappy little chain with dimwitted, penny-pinching morons in positions of power. Granted, it was my first newspaper job, but I existed just above the level of abject poverty when i started out there.

Hey, I resemble that remark. *******.

hurts don't it?

 

[Ira_Schoffel]

Guys, don't know much about CNHI. Former JRC refugee, what is their M.O.?

In my experience, it was a crappy little chain with dimwitted, penny-pinching morons in positions of power. Granted, it was my first newspaper job, but I existed just above the level of abject poverty when i started out there.

Hey, I resemble that remark. *******.

hurts don't it?

Whatever. You're just bitter because I wouldn't tell that guy (in Louisville or wherever the hell he was) that you were a minority. You gotta earn your jobs, white bread.

 

[djc3317]

What kind of reference won't let someone mistakenly believe you're a minority so you can get the job? A ****ty one, that's what. Thanks for nothing pal.

By the way, I was just telling that story the other day. Guy in the SID's office asks me to tell it to his co-workers sometimes.

 

[Bubbler]

This took a fascinating turn.