I normally don't look at my mail because it's all bills that I can't pay . . . But an interesting piece of junk mail turned up next to a collection notice from the good people at Juggs Magazine.
Featured above is a tiny post card like mailer from The Kansas City Star that proves quite a few things:
Sadly, the smug, arrogant and completely naive attitude of most of the "journalists" (hehe) working for The Star doesn't reflect the dire straits of their employer.
So, if I can contribute anything to this conversation . . . I hope that local newsies begin to regard themselves as cheaply as their floundering corporate benefactor and maybe that way TKC can have a shot with writers soon moving to PR work in a more formal capacity.
DOW 2,000 here we come.
ReplyDeleteThere's not gonna be much of a market to hear what Hoopz is downloading onto her ipod this week.
you think the star would just provide a decent online version of the paper ads and all like this site
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That photo looks a lot better than her older one.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to dancing on the Star's grave.
ReplyDeleteI have a job for Jenee but she'll have to breath through her nose for a change.
ReplyDeleteYes, we can blame the decline of the paper on the same thing that's killing the American Economy.... illegal mexicans. This country cannot sustain taking care the staggering numbers of illegal mexicans in this country and expect life to continue as usual. I just watched a spot on MSNBC where a illegal mexican mother was living in a garage with her 6 six because her "boyfriend" left her. Why do these people insist on having children they cannot take care of. There is a elementary school in NC that went from 5% mexicans to 48% in one year! the principal predicts that will be 70-80% within a couple years. Get this, the majority take English as a second language. The tax payers have to support more teacher to teach the little beaners how to speak english. This is outrageous. Illegal mexicans are tearing down this country by at its foundation.
ReplyDeleteStop the insanity.... deport these people NOW!
po niggas needs a sourc fo free toilet papers. to read an den wipe ma black stinking azz an de star be my favorit azz rag.
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ReplyDeleteBalkanization. Study it. Quit participating in the process. Illegal immigration is symptomatic, not causal.
With Blogs like yours eating away at the need for their one sided editorial and sites like kc.jobnewsusa.com and autotrader.com eating away at their classified their future is certain death.
ReplyDeleteTony your commenters are weird.
ReplyDeleteThanks T,
ReplyDeleteI cancelled my subscription today. It was hard though. I'll blog about it.
3:43 I agree, who the hell does illegal immigration have anything to do with KC Star being just about free.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually a fan of the printed newspaper, holding it in my hands and flipping through the pages.
ReplyDeleteI had to cancel my subscription because of HORRIBLE customer service. In the 7 years I was a subscriber, I complained about the same paper delivery problems over and over and over. Then they delivered my paper when I was on vacation (despite my stop request) and I emailed to complain that they put the safety of my home at risk. NO ONE EVEN RESPONDED to my complaint, so I broke up with the paper like a bad boyfriend and I've never looked back.
All I did was give them my money and they took me for granted.
it's sad that all the big dailies are in trouble BUT you don't have to have such a sense of glee over it. real people are being hurt here, not just d-bag bloggers...
ReplyDeleteEconomies of scale?
ReplyDeleteThis is just capitalism.
Just like an airplane, some people paid full price, others paid a fraction of the cost.
Just like "cable companies" new deals are out there all the time...but they are for new subscribers.
In the end it all evens out.
This is not news...this is just being stupid for stupid sake.