http://www.spiegel.de/international/bus … 62426.html

Et tu, Brute?

Truly the death of fine journalism.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2 … rship.html

John Brock / Coca-Cola Enterprises / 1731% / 248%

So, while the company grew by billions of dollars, his salary went up by millions. The effrontery!

Dmtdust wrote:

It seems out balance anyway you try to play it.

Way over what the basic salaries of the drones,
Way over percentage wise in stock gain.

How can anyone celebrate this?

There's only one way....

fallen on hard times

It appears there are still some manners and consideration out there in media land.  However the headline is completely out of course.

square wrote:

Failed efforts show that print is still dying.

Some context. "[Aaron] Kushner, a 40-year-old former greeting-card executive with zero experience in newspapers..." Kushner, an epic needle dick, purchased Marian Heath Greeting Cards in 2002 and moved it here to my humble hamlet before promptly running it into the ground. Marian Heath created a venerable brand that deserved a better fate. She was one my grandmother's best friends.

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2014/ … b_headline

Meyer Lansky and his pals make an offer NYTimes can't refuse.

It's not like the NY Times is a real newspaper.

How much does news writing have to suck?

Good Job CNN



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choad wrote:

Infinite monkeys beat reporters.

Data-tag versus Synapse, which one equals random cocksucker post?

HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR

Cracks in Nick Denton's empire.

Adam Weinstein: Goodbye to All That Gawking.

choad wrote:

Gawker's executive editor Tommy Craggs and editor-in-chief Max Read quit.

Great scheme to re-invent a scum sucking media machine.  I must say I'm very impressed.  To use the supposed "outing" of a closeted gay man in the year 2015 was a bit lame but all in all their new sites will rake millions. 

At least they understood that "Edgy Media" is a short lived thing that requires phoenix like traits if you want to keep pulling in those dollars.

I hope The Onion retracts their article and apologizes for actually reporting the news.

National Geographic Sold to Murdoch for $725 million

Baywolfe wrote:

choad wrote:

National Geographic Sold to Murdoch for $725 million

I guess the NatGeo cable channel will go the way of The Discovery Channel now.  More bullshit than fact.

Last time I watched it, wasn't too far from there already.

XregnaR wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

choad wrote:

National Geographic Sold to Murdoch for $725 million

I guess the NatGeo cable channel will go the way of The Discovery Channel now.  More bullshit than fact.

Last time I watched it, wasn't too far from there already.

Too much cross-species interbreeding because one big corp owns several cable stations.  So you turn on the Animal Planet and get Dirty Jobs shows.  Look, I like Mike Rowe but, he does NOT belong on the Animal Planet channel unless he's doing the VO work.

Emmeran wrote:

The discovery channel isn't all bullshit - if nothing else they devised this wonderful presentation method.

1.  Overview to make what we aren't really going to tell you sound interesting
2.  Commercial break
3.  Micro version of #1
4.  Tell you about what we're about to tell you
5.  Actually tell you a little bit about what we told you we were going to tell you
6.  Tell you about what we're going to tell you next
7.  Commercial break
8.  Micro version of #1
9.  Tell you about what we just told you about
10.  Tell you about what we are going to tell you about
11.  Actually tell you a little bit about what we told you we were going to tell you
12.  Tell you about what we're going to tell you next
13.  Commercial break
14.  Talk about shark week.

That's also the accepted format for a business presentation.

It’s amazing how fast the news industry has died, but there’s a time for all things. News is not an eternal thing. The incarnation we mourned dying over the last fifteen years hasn’t really existed for more than a century, maybe two hundred years if we are being exceptionally loose in our definitions of such things.

Twaddle musings of someone who doesn't know his own industry's history. Nascent technology and lower costs have fueled lively and enlightened news reporting at regular intervals back to colonial times, and it's usually quickly crushed.

The late 60s and early 70s were one such period, driven largely by photo offset overtaking linotype and hot lead. By the time I started out in 1976, soul-sapping media chains roamed the land battling fellow predators for vulnerable markets and I cut my teeth that way. Soon as it started, it seemed, it was over, and nothing remained but scorched earth of mediocre dog trainers from sea to shit shining sea. Whatever the net swept away was not worth saving.

What rattles me is this nation's apparent commitment to destroy what's left of public education.

Pop quiz. Any of you know who Jonathan Bourne was and is? (Bourne was part of Wareham for most of its history.)

Oct. 6, 2015: Bourne, MA rejects override by 34 votes

Sept 18, 2015: Jonathan Bourne Library Director: Proposed Cuts Would Be Crippling

Nov 7, 2014: Jonathan Bourne Library Stops Lending To Wareham Residents

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