"Quote 5 Words From the Associated Press? That’ll Be $12.50
"AP is hereby banned from WRH. AP fails to understand what Reuter's comprehends all too well; links from blogs drives readership UP!" -- Wake the Flock Up
That also goes HERE at the MSM Monitor!
"News Corp. websites will charge fees" by Associated Press | August 7, 2009
I'm not paying for s*** twice; bad enough I've paid for it once and end up reading it twice.
NEW YORK - Visitors to websites of News Corp.’s newspapers will have to pay to read the news within the next year, chairman Rupert Murdoch said.
It’s risky for the company because fees could drive away customers and advertisers.
Ya think?
“You don’t want to be the first guy to put up a big pay wall when all other roads to content are open,’’ said Ken Doctor, a media analyst. Yet it is a move many news outlets will closely watch as they, too, consider charging.
Among News Corp.’s stable of dailies is The New York Post and The Times of London. News Corp. already charges for some access to The Wall Street Journal’s website. But the plan is a reversal for Murdoch, who talked about throwing open the Journal’s paid site when his company took over the newspaper in 2008.
There is a growing urgency at News Corp. and elsewhere, though, to do something to stem the decline in ad revenue. News Corp. lost $203 million in the most recent quarter.
Related: The Boston Globe Admits Iraq Lies Killed It
That goes for all the AmeriKan MSM!
Murdoch gave few details on News Corp.’s new approach.
“The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ.com is the world’s most successful paid news site,’’ he said. “We will be using our profitable experience there . . . to increase our revenues from all our content.’’
Asked how News Corp. will keep readers from jumping to free news, he said, “I believe that if we are successful, we will be followed by other media.’’
Like lemmings....
And...
"They.... addressed the challenges facing the Globe, the Times Co., and the newspaper industry, including charging for online content.... The Times Co. is studying possible ways to charge for online content"
Here's the gun, Globe.
"NY Times Co. says it is in no hurry to sell Globe; Paper’s finances called improved" by Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | August 7, 2009
NEW YORK - The Boston Globe, once projected to lose $85 million this year, has been placed on a stronger financial footing that will allow The New York Times Co. to be patient in pursuing the newspaper’s sale - or forgo it altogether - the company’s top two executives said.
Yeah, here is how: A Case of Newspaper Rape
In an interview, chairman Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. and chief executive Janet Robinson said deep concessions wrung from Globe unions, and other measures, have ended the crisis at New England’s largest newspaper and put it on the path to long-term survival....
Made a PROFIT after bending the union over, huh, NYT?
"Yesterday, the Times Co. reported second-quarter net income of $39.1 million"
I'll bet the rank-and-file at the Globe loved reading that.
YOUSE gots TOOK by the Times, guys!!!!
Breaking their silence of several months, Sulzberger and Robinson spoke at length for the first time about one of the most tumultuous periods in the Globe’s 137-year history, set off by plunging revenues and the Times Co.’s threat to shutter the paper unless it gained $20 million in union concessions.
Related: The New York Times is a Terrorist
They acknowledged that the turmoil was difficult and stressful for employees and the community, and expressed gratitude for the sacrifices made by workers.
Yup, a whole $39.1 MILLIONS worth of gratitude, Globe drones.
But they said they have no regrets about their handling of the Globe’s financial crisis, which ultimately stabilized the money-losing paper.
They defended the stewardship of the newspaper, which has won eight Pulitzer Prizes under Times Co. ownership, and addressed the challenges facing the Globe, the Times Co., and the newspaper industry, including charging for online content....
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Sulzberger, a graduate of Tufts University in Medford, and Robinson, a Somerset native, also expressed affection for the Globe and pride in its journalism. They said they were always hopeful that management would reach agreement with unions. Still, they insisted, they would have followed through on the threat. The losses, after years of declining advertising revenues, had become unsustainable, they said.
Still is. Bye!
“It wasn’t a bluff,’’ Robinson said.
No, I'm not bluffing, you insulting sacks of garbage.
The shutdown threat sparked anger among employees, and caused uncertainty among advertisers.
But they can't get anything past the editors for their "reports?"
Asked if the turmoil damaged the paper’s brand or journalism, Robinson said:
“I don’t think so. In fact, I think there has been so much support for The Boston Globe during this period of time . . . it’s been a reinforcing message to the Globe and to all the employees of the Globe about how important you are to that community.’’
What a lying piece of j....
"From the moment the Times Co. purchased The Globe in 1993, it has treated New England's largest newspaper like a cheap whore"
Sulzberger and Robinson were interviewed in a conference room on the 16th floor of the new Times Co. building, a state-of-the-art structure with a high-tech feel that in many ways represents the dramatic changes that have swept through the newspaper industry.
The $600 million project was announced in 1999, when revenues and stock prices of media companies were strong. In March, less than two years after the building opened, the Times Co. sold its floors and leased them back to raise cash, one of several measures the company has taken to restructure its debt. The Times Co. is also selling its 18 percent stake in the Red Sox and related properties....
That EXPLAINS a LOT about the SELF-SERVING SPORTS on the FRONT PAGE and the LACK of AGENDA-PUSHING, FART-MISTING, GLOBAL WARMING PROTESTERS at NASCAR!
"NASCAR coverage was also expanded on the cable channel New England Sports Network, which is owned by New England Sports Ventures, the parent company of the Red Sox and Fenway Sports Group. The New York Times Co., which owns The Boston Globe, holds a 17 percent stake in New England Sports Ventures."
The Globe was hit early and hard because of its heavy reliance on classified advertising, which quickly migrated to the Internet, and a weak New England economy, Sulzberger said. Key advertisers, such as Filene’s, disappeared in mergers.
See: The Boston Globe Just Doesn't Get It
The Globe was already restructuring, having launched another round of buyouts and layoffs when the national economy went into freefall early this year. Revenues plunged, and the Times Co., facing a projected $85 million loss at the Globe, called union leaders together in early April and threatened to close the paper if the company did not achieve major labor concessions.
“We needed to make sure that people understood the seriousness of the financial situation,’’ Robinson explained. “It became pretty clear that we could not sustain an $85 million loss year after year after year after year. No one wanted to close the Globe. No one. When you’re losing $85 million, that’s not sustainable.’’
Gotta love the fact that the Times turned around and made $39 million in profit after the deal, huh, Globe staff?
Robinson and Sulzberger said the union meeting was confidential. When news leaked, they left it to the Globe’s senior management to communicate the situation, despite the uproar and criticisms of the Times Co.’s “no comment’’ policy. A common complaint among Globe employees was that the most senior Times Co. executives did not travel to Boston for a face-to-face meeting with employees at which they might have explained the paper’s financial condition and made the case for sacrifices.
Robinson and Sulzberger said they allow managers at individual units to run the operations and did not want to undermine Globe executives’ authority....
"In 2008, P. Steven Ainsley, the publisher, received about $113,000 in bonus pay, down from more than $314,000 in 2007"
For losing over a million a week? While the rank-and-file union workers went WITHOUT a raise for FOUR YEARS -- and just took a wage reduction?
How can you guys write the crap you do then?
Sulzberger said they could not speculate on whether the Times Co. would make additional cuts at the Globe, because it’s unclear when the economy will rebound....
Well, READ the BOSTON GLOBE THEN -- if you can get through the mixed messages and bulls*** !!!!
In addition to the union concessions, the Globe implemented a turnaround plan this year that included closing the Billerica printing plant and raising subscription prices significantly.
Yeah, and IT AIN'T WORTH IT NO MORE, and I'M NOT PAYING for s*** Zionist propaganda twice!!!!
Ultimately, said Robinson, the Globe, the New York Times and other newspapers must find new revenues.
As they LOSE OLD ONES right here!!!!!!!!!
The Times Co. is studying possible ways to charge for online content, although executives have made no decisions. “We’re going to have twists and turns and going forward, with advertising being up and down, and paid models being examined and looked at,’’ she said....
They still don't get it.
Newspaper suicide note:
AmeriKa’s Zionist MSM Apologizes and Recants
Eulogy:
"Leave Good Footprints- Cave Dei Videt
Yesterday, Michael Rivero made the statement that he would no longer link to AP articles because links create traffic and he doesn’t feel like supporting that. Yes, AP is a collection of anonymous, informed sources that lie in support of the fascist intent of corporate world takeover. They’re a pack of whores and their employers are pimps in pinstripes.
This struck me and I realized that I have been unwittingly assisting in this ♫as time goes by♫, so I’m going to do what I usually do when I learn or understand something that I hadn’t known or understood before, I’m going to apply it. In this case I’m going to apply it across the board and take it several steps further by no longer linking to ‘any’ MSM news site again. I’ll just say I saw it in the MSM, you’ll have to look for it on your own
The way my mind works is that I reflexively eject most thoughts that come into my mind because they are looking for a free lunch at my expense. They want to feed at the well of my desire or longing by giving the impression that they are what I desire or long for. The thoughts that I do not eject are the ones that, for whatever reason, catch my attention and cause me to investigate them; why did they show up? Where did they come from? And… what are they trying to tell me?
Here is something I discovered a long time ago. When I look into something, I usually find something. Here is something I discovered more recently, there’s usually something underneath the initial discovery and something more underneath that and… so on and so forth. So when I look at something of interest now, I don’t stop with the surface acquisition. I keep studying and probing and… you know what? It seems to me that you can discover the secret of the universe in anything, if you just keep digging into any particular thing, until you discover its essential nature. That’s because the essential nature of anything is the essential nature of everything. You theoretical mathematicians with a metaphysical bent already know this. Everything real that we doubt, because we don’t know how to manipulate it, is proven in spades, if we could just learn that the passionate intensity of the surface and the bottomless depths are the same. It’s just a difference in perspective.
Ergo… all truths are connected somewhere and all lies are too. A firm focus of inquiry into any lie causes it to reveal its inconsistency and disappear. A firm focus of inquiry into any truth causes it to appear and reveal its quality.
I’m going to leave this area of mind play now and try to say in plain terms what I came here to say this morning. I can already feel some people’s eyes glazing over and some are asking themselves why this isn’t at Visible Origami instead of simmering here in the Petri Dish. So…
…what Michael said got me thinking deeper into the thing and I realized that in my efforts to speak the truth there are times, no doubt, when I am dragging engines of disinformation along with me as object examples of what is not the truth and sometimes using them as evidence of something, when… these engines of disinformation never told the truth at any time even when it looks to us like they did.
This got me thinking that I ought to turn my lens of inquiry upon myself when I go about the business of passing on information because, the odds are, I’m not right all the time and that means I’m casting some amount of shadow in my passage in pursuit of the light. I was thinking that this is how it always gets back to what it was after awhile. A whole lot of people set out to speak the truth and live correctly. The passionate exuberance of youth finds us dreaming of our careers as doctors and lawyers, policemen and politicians, where we make a difference in the world but… the majority wind up doing exactly what their predecessors did before them. It starts with little corruptions and sooner or later, self interest, along with ease and expediency are driving the car.
Every generation finds out what their antecedents discovered. They all make deals with the darkness. It is the rare individual that hangs in there at the loss of what everyone else sold out for. This poor fool who won’t make the necessary accommodations, now becomes an embarrassment to everyone who did make accommodations …and a pain in the ass to the bankers and merchants that own everyone else’s ass. The next thing you know is that someone is muttering, “Will no one free me of this troublesome priest?”
I mentioned how most of the thoughts that enter our mind are just looking for a free lunch. It also serves that once they get that lunch they will be back for dinner and the following day’s breakfast. They get larger ♫as time goes by♫ and some of them come to require all your efforts just to feed them and this is how people get old in a hurry and wind up spending their lives to accommodate entities that mean them no good.
All the alternatives media eventually becomes the MSM. All the successful efforts to drive out corruption eventually become generators of corruption. Every nation based on the concept of personal liberty eventually turns into a state of tyranny. This is because of the compromises and adjustments they all make once they’ve become trusted institutions and they work that trust all the way to the point where no one trusts them anymore. That’s called success.
This was my intent in not having any advertising; not trading links (even though people get mad at me and think I’m a jerk), not playing footsie with larger alternative media and being dropped by many after it became clear that our brief courtship was not going to result in my dropping my pants and I wound up being linked at the same two larger sites I started out with.
The prosecuting district attorney nails the bad guys and then gets nailed because he was nailing prostitutes; getting setup by agents of the folks he nailed on his way to wherever it was he finally didn’t arrive at. The political priest moves up in the ranks and then slides his hands down into the pants of the innocents he was charged with protecting. If you want a relatively crime free society then you have to be aware of the criminal elements and manage them but you had better manage them inside yourself to begin with.
The people being screwed the most at the moment are the people who played by the rules and the people doing most of the screwing are the people who perverted the rules for their own enterprises and spend their time praising and enforcing virtues they never possessed to begin with. This is how come full time profligates spend all their time preaching about continence and abstinence and laughing at the one’s who take them seriously because they hung the ‘free lunch’ sign in their minds the moment they realized it was a lot less work to pretend to be something instead of actually doing it. They praise industry and savings while they offshore the one and loot the other.
There’s no way this system survives because it has RUN ITS TERM. This is something you need to know. This isn’t something you fix, because it was broken to begin with. The best we can hope for is an increase in the exposure and prosecution of the criminals (and that is in progress) while we build something new out of the ashes. It won’t mean anything though unless it really is something new and it won’t get anywhere unless we build it into ourselves in the first place and remember that quote about ‘eternal vigilance being the price of liberty’.
No man becomes a slave who did not sell himself into servitude in the first place …and all because he thought he wanted something he found out he didn’t want, shortly after he got it. It tastes like ashes because it is composed of ashes; the burned out fruits of misinformed desire.
We’re coming up on the denouement and we’re going to be sitting in judgment of ourselves. It would have been nice if more of us had tumbled to the reality of that a long time ago.
I may be back to post a few items later, readers; however, I am know going to catch up on some blog readings.
Think I'll start here.
