Comments for More pink slips at Daily Advertiser at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 20 out of 20 comments http://www.theind.com Sun, 19 May 2013 01:51:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12281 Your skeleton crew is beginning to look anorexic! - realitychecks Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:35:00 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12233 Shotgun, You're talking about the problem of corporate run media throughout the US, at all levels (print, radio and tv) since the arrival of the internet, and the greying of the Baby Boomers. The youngsters aren't buying your papers as they settle down into parenthood. GenXers grew up in the era of cynicism post-Watergate/Vietnam/Nixonian meltdown. They tend to be more unaffiliated but right-wing in general, and this bias against "liberal media" leads them to absolute confusion and a lack of all comprehension on the various types of media positioning. They were born after the FCC and then Supreme Court blew up our 1930's era rules meant to ensure an objective reporter of fact press over the public airwaves, and can't tell the difference between this and a Subjective Advocate in the print media. Hell, some of the tv media are borderline propagandist whether on their "news" hours or on their "commentary" hours. The line is completely fuzzy, b/c a changing of the clock on cable is not similar to the physical representation of knowing you are on the editorial page. There are biases in media, even when there is an Objective reporter of fact. The bias is not to a political party line or philosophical viewpoint by the reporters, so much as it is from editors coming down from management and sometimes ownership, to cut down resources, to sell soft story and human interest and social drama. They bring on ex-generals with no transparency or accountability who then advocate warmaking positions. They bring on former lobbyists trained by foundations, funded by billionaires who just want to tear down civil society systems. They take government and corporate press releases as gospel, and then want to be "fair and balanced" by letting incredulous people and groups on the air, like with science issues, as if there was some debate. This is how we get intelligent design nonsense, pretending to be a science, which it is not, when really, spirituality and the divine is a wholly worthwhile subject to have discourse over, but not in the same discussion as a scientific discussion. It cheapens the divine to somehow think it can ever be measured or studied or known from objective data, what God had in mind when he did what he did. In this whole rant... I think Lafayette is outta luck. Unless y'all want to do the perjoratively "Liberal" thing, and start a boycott of the Daily Advertiser.... maybe then Gannett will sell it off and you can have a real Conservative Subjective Reporter in town. And all the world will be right with them to go against The Ind. (I'm sure they're shaking their heads at me now. I'm just playing. We still love you The Ind.) - Unempirical Observer Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:00:06 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12223 It's too bad there isn't a paper like The Ind in Lake Charles to report on all of the layoffs Tom Shearman has made at the Lake Charles American Press. They are a worse joke than TDA. - LiberalWingnut Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:37:56 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12221 Its about time they are sinking. What a poor excuse of a paper. I wish someone would step up to the plate and compete.... - Woody Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:34:10 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12208 Pretty sad, but the slow train wreck of Gannett is obvious. No meaningful news, as Northsidian points out no investigative reporting on criminal goings-on of our government officials. Outright support of criminal candidates for office. I doubt there is a car in the Daily Advertiser parking lot still left with an Obama bumper sticker. - Phil Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:45:06 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12199 Pink slips! Were they emailed? - Eat Prey Kill Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:02:11 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12194 The Fat Lady is wailing, you can close da curtains ! - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:15:04 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12182 The advocate is just like the the Daily Mullet Rapper - kenneth Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:14:44 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12179 lAFAYETTE, HAS GROWN RAPIDLY IN THE PREVIOUS THIRTY YEARS, and the locally daily became stagnated in the last seven to ten years, it became more a classified daily about five years past, the news it prints is available one or two days prior to readers through other media in the state, and through national news carriers, and as more time passes the increase of censorship and coverups of unpopular goings-on in the area in the rank and file of political malfeasance in office by local appointed lackeys and the placement of crooks in administration of government programs, and looking the other way while taxpayer money is pilfered by the dishonest, " GO FETCH BOYS, who have been appointed for past favors accepted, and a local weekly periodical, and or/an outside the city news agency comes in and opens up a hornets nest while the local daily pretends to be unaware of any mis-doings in the area, this has long been a losing proposition for the daily newspaper and while this end has been long overdue in arriving, it is very much welcomed by the voters who depend on local news agencys in aiding their decisions of who to select for office and as leaders of the city and parish This daily here in Lafayette has been under the reins of the local administration for sometime now, and while ad space is all important, the lack of subscribers reading the ads is very costly in the end. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:23:01 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12175 Bard, are you a psychologist? If not, stay on subject, please. I am not interested in your analysis'. - bmiller2100 Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:26:20 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12174 I hope that this does not surprise anyone. The "Daily Aggravator" has been out of touch for decades. Liberal print is dying all over the country. Why should this paper be any different? from time to time, I check their website to see if there is any noteworthy news on it and for the most part, the website has the same articles it did the previous two weeks. I wonder if the Acadiana edition of the Advocate has a larger circulation in Lafayette. I suspect it does since it tends to stick to the news and not liberal biased editorials. In my 40 years in the greater Lafayette area, the only thing the the Aggrivator was good for was lighting the fireplace. - Bass_Fisherman Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:48:07 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12161 Ga Negative, Negative, We would'nt want anyone to lose their job, but when the sunday edition was not delivered and my parrain called the Advertiser delivery woman. She said " So sorry, I will bring it tomorrow, when i bring the monday edition. A sign of things to come. - SOLUTIONOR Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:47:03 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12160 Ordered paper four weeks ago. Still no paper. I do not know why. The Ind. has more local news than TDA. - Confused Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:54:27 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12157 They should all look for honest work while they are getting a paycheck. - bluto Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:10:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12150 written by ADS "I hope all of them find work soon." ------------------------- The market place is speaking and the future is not paper unless they can get a government hand out. - LSMFT Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:40:05 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12149 Please tell me that District Sales Manager Derrick Phillips was 1st on the list. I haven't received a paper in 6 days and counting now with no response. I call corporate every day for an update, daily credit and link to virtual paper to keep me up to date. When we left town for vacation this summer I called, emailed and faxed a stop delivery notice and you guessed it - all the papers were in the driveway for the world to know we weren't home!! Still have never heard from this individual. Try calling The Advertiser phone number listed in the Yellow Book phone directory and see what you get. 337-233-1375. Corporate has been very helpful - Phillips has not. If this guy ever crawls out from under his rock I hope it is to get his long overdue pink slip. Let someone who wants to perform fill that position. BBB is my next stop on this train to nowhere... - cajy1 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:25:09 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12148 PLUMPY, you are an unfortunate to be so ill informed and not very well read. Lashing out makes you feel good and that is sad. "Ay, there's the rub." - The Bard Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:16:43 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12143 I just received my health insurance premium . It has doubled. I blame Obamacare . Since the news media supports Obama. I've called The Advertiser and canceled my subscription . As the saying goes " what comes around , go around ". - PLUMPY Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:10:57 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12142 It's a bad day in Acadiana when people lose jobs even if they are considered to be a direct competitor. I hope all of them find work soon. - ADS Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:06:57 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7251-more-pink-slips-at-daily-advertiser#comment-12137 Is one of them Bill Decker? - Limited Liability Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:32:38 +0100