[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Rather Fight than Switch?

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Rather Fight than Switch?
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1202877796.shtml


   I take no pleasure in seeing the [1]Minneapolis Star Tribune suffer
   another round of layoffs. The 58 laid off are real people, many no
   doubt leaving jobs they really enjoy. As this industry continues to
   contract, there are fewer such opportunities available.
   Obviously I don't understand this business, specifically why it is so
   unwilling to change, even to survive. There are tens of thousands of
   potential customers that would ask little more than a little more
   serious journalism. I'm one of them, one who subscribed for something
   like 35 years before even I had to quit in frustration. And yet it
   seems they'd rather fight than switch.
   To survive, the Star Tribune's owners would do well do dust off the
   old book "Quality is Free." Nobody is going to quit the paper if you
   raise (i.e. restore) your standards. But more will quit if the quality
   continues to decline.

References

   1. http://www.looktruenorth.com/culture/new-media-blogs/58-new-media-blogs/1832--startribune-sinks-deeper-into-oblivion.html