Travel cutbacks?

[micke77]

good reply, Joe.
better than going to see a freakin' psychiatrist, right?

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

On a similar note, I had a discussion tonight in the office about the odd decision of the Boston Globe, who announced last week they were laying off 50 people, to send a reporter to the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Cleveland.

Really? Is there that much of a hunger for a ton of coverage?

 

[Mark2010]

The boss' bonus, of course, would come in the form of a check, which could be cashed for spending money to buy stuff like groceries and cigars, which sportswriters really don't have much need for, ya know, because they love what they do.

News flash: The surgeon general has determined that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.

 

[Mark2010]

On a similar note, I had a discussion tonight in the office about the odd decision of the Boston Globe, who announced last week they were laying off 50 people, to send a reporter to the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Cleveland.

Really? Is there that much of a hunger for a ton of coverage?

They don't have to send 50 people to the Super Bowl this year.

 

[Cosmo]

On a similar note, I had a discussion tonight in the office about the odd decision of the Boston Globe, who announced last week they were laying off 50 people, to send a reporter to the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Cleveland.

Really? Is there that much of a hunger for a ton of coverage?

Is there a local connection? Only thing I can think of.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

On a similar note, I had a discussion tonight in the office about the odd decision of the Boston Globe, who announced last week they were laying off 50 people, to send a reporter to the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Cleveland.

Really? Is there that much of a hunger for a ton of coverage?

Christine Brennan says, "Of course! Is there any doubt?"

 

[Fredrick]

Whoa, hold on, hold on just a minute.
Maybe I am "wired" wrong and maybe I live in a fantasy world, but if I am a boss of a business and I see anyone--don't care what department he's in--busting his or her's ass to get things done, I am gonna go out of my way to praise the guy or gal's contribution every chance I get. And I would hope, just hope, I could find a way to compensate that person financially.

That ain't the Gannett way.
Managers I'm sure are told not to praise because it could come back to haunt them legally. Also the performance evaluations are a crock of **** meant to intimidate the reporter. The grades are docked lower than normal. In newspapers, people are not valued. Anybody can do the job. The key is to keep the raises down and make sure the lowly reporter knows he is replaceable. It is sad. Not the way America used to run businesses.

 

[SixToe]

Not the way America used to run business?

What about working 35 or 40 years and getting the gold watch, pat on the back and seeing Joe from the mailroom take your spot?

This management bull**** didn't just happen in the last five years. It's been going on a long time. The thing today is too many pampered, spoiled me-first mommy's kids who got a trophy for finishing last in tee-ball don't like the way things are being done.

Reality sucks. The management strategy and way things are being done sucks. But you have to move on. It's business.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Not the way America used to run business?

What about working 35 or 40 years and getting the gold watch, pat on the back and seeing Joe from the mailroom take your spot?

This management bull**** didn't just happen in the last five years. It's been going on a long time. The thing today is too many pampered, spoiled me-first mommy's kids who got a trophy for finishing last in tee-ball don't like the way things are being done.

Reality sucks. The management strategy and way things are being done sucks. But you have to move on. It's business.

Yeah, but it's worse than it was.

Cycle largely used to run until you were approaching 65 . . . or decided to retire with what you regarded as a sufficient pile, earlier.

Now, thanks to the drooling pronouncements of public brainsurgeons like Andy Grove,
you're a prime target to get taken down and out at fifty, to be replaced by someone
one-third younger, with half the experience and ten percent of the institutional memory.

The end result isn't pretty, for anyone except those in their golden bubbles at the top.

 

[Joe Williams]

Not the way America used to run business?

What about working 35 or 40 years and getting the gold watch, pat on the back and seeing Joe from the mailroom take your spot?

This management bull**** didn't just happen in the last five years. It's been going on a long time. The thing today is too many pampered, spoiled me-first mommy's kids who got a trophy for finishing last in tee-ball don't like the way things are being done.

Reality sucks. The management strategy and way things are being done sucks. But you have to move on. It's business.

Yeah, but it's worse than it was.

Cycle largely used to run until you were approaching 65 . . . or decided to retire with what you regarded as a sufficient pile, earlier.

Now, thanks to the drooling pronouncements of public brainsurgeons like Andy Grove,
you're a prime target to get taken down and out at fifty, to be replaced by someone
one-third younger, with half the experience and ten percent of the institutional memory.

The end result isn't pretty, for anyone except those in their golden bubbles at the top.

WFW, Ben.

 

[SixToe]

I'll agree with that, Ben.

It's a different era of business and, in some cases, getting screwed. None of it is fun, easy to handle or desirable after putting in your time and then getting shown the door.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Richmond is doing NO travel in the first quarter.

I have this image of John O'Connor standing at the intersection of Patterson and Libbie with his thumb out, trying to hitch a ride downtown to cover the Three Chopt Tech-Franklin Street Institute for the Aging Hippies basketball game ...

That will teach him to miss the Westhampton No. 6 bus.

 

[zagoshe]

I posed this question earlier and now that it has arrived I am wondering if anyone can fill me in -- how many people did each of the major metros which regularly cover the two teams in the Super Bowl send to this year's Super Bowl?

It doesn't seem like any of them held back, though I could be wrong.

Does anyone know how many each of them sent?

 

[micke77]

has anyone heard about any major cutbacks by media outlets for covering the Super Bowl?
and particularly those from Pennsylvania and Arizona?

 

[imjustagirl]

has anyone heard about any major cutbacks by media outlets for covering the Super Bowl?
and particularly those from Pennsylvania and Arizona?

You might want to check the "Hartford and AJC aren't covering the Super Bowl" thread.

 

[micke77]

gotcha..thanks.