"charge for access to content on Boston.com by year’s end"
You know what? I don't think I'll wait that long.
How appropriate that September 11 will be the last time I buy a Boston Globe.
And if I'm not buying a printed paper, I'm not going to the website.
Go ask the New York Times.
"Times Co. says Globe on path to profitability" by Robert Weisman and Todd Wallack, Globe Staff | September 10, 2009
Top executives from The Boston Globe’s parent company told employees yesterday the newspaper is on a path to profitability as a result of pay cuts and price increases that took effect over the summer.
Yeah, I'll bet!
"Yesterday, the Times Co. reported second-quarter net income of $39.1 million"
So the NYT MADE MONEY while they were BENDING YOU OVER, BG workers?
You know what we call that: A Case of Newspaper Rape
During two sessions at the Globe’s offices, New York Times Co. chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and chief executive Janet L. Robinson thanked employees for their sacrifices and stressed that the improved financial conditions meant the company does not need to sell the paper if offers are not satisfactory....
Yeah, in $39.1 million ways!!!!
Globe publisher P. Steven Ainsley, meanwhile, said the paper’s executives also hoped to decide on a new strategy on whether and how to charge for access to content on Boston.com by year’s end. He said possible scenarios include putting the website behind a pay wall, but such a move would have to balance the potential for increased revenue against a potential loss of visitors if the site were no longer free. “It’s an enormously complicated analysis,’’ Ainsley said.
PFFFT! What an INSULT!!!!
Yeah, the REASON you HAVE VISITORS is because I AM SENDING THEM THERE!!!
There is a REASON YOU GUYS are TANKING and CHARGING for the WEB is NOT GOING TO HELP!!!
It's the LIES, STOO-PIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The rest is about their meeting with the staff, and I really don't care what either has to say.
Yesterday’s meetings marked the first time Times Co. executives have met with Globe workers in more than a year. 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....
At the Globe yesterday, employees repeatedly asked if price alone would determine the sale of the paper, focusing their concerns on one of the reported bidders, Platinum Equity, a California investment firm. Platinum bought the San Diego Union earlier this year and swiftly cut about one-fifth of the newspaper’s staff. Sulzberger said a decision on the sale would hinge on several factors, including the price and the impact of a sale on the Globe’s journalism, its readers, and the Greater Boston community....
Oh, WORRIED the TIMES will stab you in the back again?
I would be, too.
Sulzberger acknowledged that “reasonable men and women may disagree about whether we should have come here before to talk to you.’’ But he made no apologies for the Times Co.’s strategy to seek cuts from employees.
Although the sessions were mostly civil, there were some contentious moments. Classified sales employee Jeanne Shimkus drew a smattering of applause during the morning meeting when she attacked the Times Co. executives for imposing cuts on employees and questioned their credibility. “I have no respect for anything you say. And I don’t believe a word you say,’’ Shimkus said.
Same goes for his agenda-pushing Zionist paper, too!
Sulzberger quickly moved on to the next question. “If you have no respect for anything I say, and you don’t believe anything I say, then we don’t have the basis for a conversation and a dialogue,’’ he told Shimkus.
Way I'm feeling about the Boston Globe, New York Times, and the rest of AmeriKa's MSM, I agree. Bye!
During the same session, Marty Callaghan, the president of the Boston Newspaper Printing Pressmen’s Union, urged Sulzberger and Robinson to make sure any prospective owner knew how many sacrifices workers have made this year. “You banged us around really good,’’ Callaghan said. “Some new owner better not come in here and think that they are going to go, with the way things usually go, and come in and bang these unions around again.’’
Times and Globe executives said the company will continue to look for ways to trim expenses, but did not outline any specific plans for job cuts or other reductions. “We’re always looking for efficiencies,’’ said Ainsley. “We’re always looking at staffing.’’
One hopes that further reductions won't affect his bonus.
SIX FIGURE BONUSES for LOSING MONEY while workers go without raises?
But he added, “We’re spending a lot of time waiting on seeing what the economy does for us over the next few months before we make any specific decisions.’’
Yeah, THEY STILL THINK it is the economy, not the lies!
Although Robinson emphasized that the company is on better financial footing, she said she could not predict when the Globe would be profitable again.
Oh, so they are STILL LOSING $$$$, huh?
Well, I'M NOT GOING to HELP THEM anymore!!!!
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And they ARE GETTING HELP:
"Tech giants offer papers revenue ideas" by Associated Press | September 11, 2009
NEW YORK - Some of the world’s biggest technology companies say they can help publishers successfully charge readers for news online....
Then I DON'T WANT IT and WON'T GO THERE anymore.
IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., and even Google Inc. - a company some newspapers blame for helping to dig their financial hole - responded to a request by the Newspaper Association of America for proposals on ways to easily, unobtrusively charge for news on the Web.
GOOOOOOODBYEEEEEEEEEEE, Glob!!!!
But while building the infrastructure for charging readers is one part of the equation, the new proposals underscore what may be the more intractable issue: getting publishers to make the leap and stop giving news out for free on the Web....
Is that what they are CALLING PROPAGANDA? News?
Google proposed offering news organizations a version of its Google Checkout system, which is used for processing online payments. It would give readers a place to sign in to an account and then pay for media from a variety of sources without having to punch in their information over and over. And the company says it could offer publishers a variety of pay methods, from basic subscriptions to so-called micropayments on a per-article basis.
Oh, I forgot to link the article?
OOOOOOPS!
