[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: For a Limited Time Only

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
For a Limited Time Only
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   The spectre of bankruptcy looms next Friday for the Minneapolis Star
   Tribune, [1]labor talks having stalled yet again. But they still have
   enough cash to send me yet another (final?) mailing, to get the Sunday
   paper delivered for just $1.25 a week. I'm about due for another phone
   offer, too.
   As a former seven day a week subscriber for decades, it's not that I
   don't at least reconsider. I do miss it. I still flip through the
   lunchroom copies at work during the week. But the final straw, their
   incompetent, even shameful coverage of the 2006 Fifth District
   Congressional election remains a final straw. I've seen nothing that
   tells me that they have rediscovered the real journalism columnist
   Nick Coleman remembers - from 1973. No change, no sale.
   Getting back to the bankruptcy, a source tells me that many in the
   unions believe that the paper is actually making money, just not
   enough to please the owners. That might explain the current impasse.
   Meanwhile, the owners continue to focus only on expenses, not revenue,
   as the way out. But there will be no new revenue until they raise the
   quality and intellect of what they're publishing.
   I'd like to subscribe again, I really would. But that will require a
   reality check from both the unions and the owners.

References

   1. http://www.minnpost.com/braublog/2009/01/08/5713/strib_union_rejects_concessions_bankruptcy_seems_certain#comments_section