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2006-06-02 Fifth Column

About 170 Washington Post staff take buyouts

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Posted by Sniting Chereck4226 2006-06-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Try just reportin' the news, rather than makin' the news, and see if that makes a difference in your business. Just guessin'... just sayin'... but I do think, when you begin to understand, "cause and effect," you might witness a bit of a difference in your five year business plan. And your stockholders might be a little happier.

Keep doing those early buy-out. They always work.

NOT.....

How about a six month pilot program? For six months, report the news. Strike out every word, every phrase that hints of bias. Bleed and lead with it, as you bleed your heart in going against that, "If it bleeds, it leads."

Just report. As I learned about the characteristics of writing a news report.... Who, What, When, When and How.

And I learned that in 7th.... many, many, many years ago.. Try it. You might like the results.

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2006-06-02 01:03|| 2006-06-02 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Sherry you beat me to it. what she said.

Posted by Jan 2006-06-02 04:40|| 2006-06-02 04:40|| Front Page Top

#3 S: Try just reportin' the news, rather than makin' the news, and see if that makes a difference in your business.

I don't think that's the problem - they're just losing subscribers from the availability of free and timely news on the internet. They're also losing advertising because sellers are moving to the web to sell their stuff.

The real irony is that the liberal media are always decrying the effect of profit-hungry corporate drones on employment. They lay into Wal Mart for causing jobs to be lost, even though Wal Mart makes a 5% profit. WPO made an 8% profit in the most recent quarter, and it's laying off people. When liberals have money at stake, they'll do whatever they need to hang on to that money, but they expect other people to make sacrifices for the common good.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-06-02 08:21|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-06-02 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 ZF - and how many new jobs were created by WALMART in the past year [particularly for those with high school level education] and how many has WAPO created?

Hopefully, journalism like many of its fellow soft degree programs will soon swell the ranks of embittered retail clerks across America. Time that information 'reporting' get back to the old standards of a trade.

Posted by Shinemp Ebbitch6305 2006-06-02 09:32|| 2006-06-02 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't offer buyouts to the leftists at WaPo. We wouldn't want WaPo to rid themselves of the reason for the lines.

Posted by Captain America 2006-06-02 10:39|| 2006-06-02 10:39|| Front Page Top

#6 The Washington Post is in decline.
THE WASHINGTON POST IS IN DECLINE.
Sometimes the small pleasures of life make a day great.

Posted by wxjames 2006-06-02 12:42|| 2006-06-02 12:42|| Front Page Top

#7 now the guy that checks for accuracy in reporting in the WAPO will be laid off. Won't Dana Milbank be happy?

Posted by Frank G 2006-06-02 13:25|| 2006-06-02 13:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Reminds me of the old lawyer joke:
Question: "What do you call 500 lawyers at the bottom of the Atlantic?"
Answer: "A good start."

Posted by Darrell 2006-06-02 14:20|| 2006-06-02 14:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Reminds me of the old lawyer joke:
Question: "What do you call 500 lawyers at the bottom of the Atlantic?"
Answer: "A good start."

Posted by Darrell 2006-06-02 14:21|| 2006-06-02 14:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Obviously I tell that one too often.

Posted by Darrell 2006-06-02 14:22|| 2006-06-02 14:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Okay, now we have 1,000. Do I hear 2,000?

Posted by Throluting Thravimble3768 2006-06-02 14:22|| 2006-06-02 14:22|| Front Page Top

#12 The five "W"'s are: who, what, where, when and why.

Long forgotten, it seems. Or, transmutated into a version of opinion of the requisites rather than the requisites themselves. Trend is to report what one is told. Report gossip, like Hollywood. That's "reportage" in the picayune market economy of media.

It ain't News.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-06-02 22:02|| 2006-06-02 22:02|| Front Page Top

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