Monday, December 22, 2008
Want further proof that people in the newspaper industry are too stupid to be trusted?
How about this quote from an employee of the Rocky Mountain Daily News which is on the verge of shutting down:
βI am beyond stunned,β said the veteran political reporter Lynn Bartels. βTo me, what happened was literally like a ship capsizing in the middle of the night.β
Got that? Mr. or Ms. Bartels is beyond stunned that her employer is about to go the way of the buggy whip maker. Hello? Stupid? The same article states that the circulation of the paper has dropped from 325,000 to 225,000 in about a decade. Got that? Somebody who is covering politics on your behalf is too stupid to realize the paper is in trouble despite losing almost 1/3 of its readers.
Not that the managing people at this Mensa place were any smarter. In that same time frame while losing almost 1/3 of the readers they cut staff from 210 to 199. Yup, a little more than 5%.
None of this would matter much. Loser companies with stupid people go out of business all the time. It does matter though when loser companies with stupid people are deciding what is news and what matters and how it's presented. As for political reporter Bartels, I can only hope that with your lack of self awareness and reporting instincts you do not stay in the reportorial field. Perhaps somebody that dim needs to move up the food chain and run for office.
How about this quote from an employee of the Rocky Mountain Daily News which is on the verge of shutting down:
βI am beyond stunned,β said the veteran political reporter Lynn Bartels. βTo me, what happened was literally like a ship capsizing in the middle of the night.β
Got that? Mr. or Ms. Bartels is beyond stunned that her employer is about to go the way of the buggy whip maker. Hello? Stupid? The same article states that the circulation of the paper has dropped from 325,000 to 225,000 in about a decade. Got that? Somebody who is covering politics on your behalf is too stupid to realize the paper is in trouble despite losing almost 1/3 of its readers.
Not that the managing people at this Mensa place were any smarter. In that same time frame while losing almost 1/3 of the readers they cut staff from 210 to 199. Yup, a little more than 5%.
None of this would matter much. Loser companies with stupid people go out of business all the time. It does matter though when loser companies with stupid people are deciding what is news and what matters and how it's presented. As for political reporter Bartels, I can only hope that with your lack of self awareness and reporting instincts you do not stay in the reportorial field. Perhaps somebody that dim needs to move up the food chain and run for office.
# posted by Jay @ 2:35 PM 
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