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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 8:18pm.
Olympia, Washington residents are announcing an immediate boycott of all McClatchy Company news products! McClatchy owns The Olympian newspaper, located in Olympia, Washington. Editorial Page Editor Mike Oakland at The Olympian is currently writing innacurate, inflammatory, and divisive editorials, to the detriment of the community & neighborhoods of Olympia. The Olympian's Editorial Editor Mike Oakland does not reside in Olympia and should keep his divisive comments regarding Olympia, and its residents, to himself, and should not be in a position to monetarily profit from his belittling of the City of Olympia. Newspaper readers nationwide are urged to stop purchasing all McClatchy newspapers, until The Olympian’s editors and writers refrain from portraying Olympia, Washington in a negative light.
McClatchy Company investors can direct their questions & comments to: Mike Oakland, Editorial Page Editor The Olympian 360-754-5464
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Submitted by bubba z (not verified) on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 8:20pm.I'm interested...
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 8:34pm.Bubba, not that I disagree that there is divisiveness in The Olympian, I'm interested in which particular editorial or stand that you are concerned about?
Can you share?
"There is only one race, the human race" - The Neville Brothers
Soitenly Larry
Submitted by bubba z (not verified) on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 8:47pm.We are about due for the Olympia City Councilmember TJ Johnson bashing, amateurish, hit job piece from The Olympian's Editorial Page Editor Mike Oakland.
It should be in tomorrow's, or the following day's, paper..
Editorial Page Editor Mike Oakland should stop bashing the great town of Olympia.
He doesnt even live here.
When Mike Oakland writes the TJ Johnson hit job piece..
Submitted by bubba z (not verified) on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 8:50pm.Oh yeah..
Submitted by bubba z (not verified) on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 10:43pm.Amen, brother
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Sat, 07/14/2007 - 7:47am.During the Letters to the Editor comments, on Friday, July 13, 2007, a gentleman (I'm assuming) named Larry posted a couple of comments. He was immediately identified as me (which of course, he wasn't me). He appeared to play with the readers misidentification somewhat. It seemed obvious that he has read the comments in the past and knows a bit of the history.
When I returned home late last night, and logged on for awhile to catch up on community chatter (olyblog also, by the way), I found "Larry" had been edited off the comments thread, and this post had been left:
Aaron Mason, Online Production | Homepage | 07.13.07 - 3:46 pm | #"
"There is only one race, the human race" - The Neville Brothers
McClatchy..
Submitted by bubba z (not verified) on Sat, 07/14/2007 - 7:58am.McClatchy endorses this sort of thing?
Im shocked..
Terrible, just terrible..
Im thinking that maybe we should share the cyberlove
Submitted by bubba z (not verified) on Mon, 07/16/2007 - 2:28pm.Why should we stick to just boycotting the McClatchy Company..
There are plenty of other companies supporting The Olympian's corporate agenda as well..
Who is Bruce Titus?
I'm not a fan of "boycotting", per se....
Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 8:29pm.But I do agree that money talks.
I can tell you, with some relative confidence, that advertisers in this market are not tripping over themselves to get in line to advertise in newspapers. Paid circulation is dropping and newspapers haven't come to terms with what to do about it. TMC products (total market coverage) have taken the majority of food advertising from them (along with targeted direct mail). Thus, the only thing a newspaper has to hang its hat on is READERSHIP - positive or negative.
The tabloids paved the way on negative readership effect. It's not enough to just publish the news any longer, as electronic media beats them to the punch everytime. You have to have something better and unfortunately, corporate newspapers are busy watching the bottom line and don't have the time to produce really great material. The cheap way out is "controversy".
Trust me when I tell you that advertisers are not "supporting" the media. They are seeking results (sales) from their investment. If it doesn't pay, they are on their way. Newpapers are to expensive for branding.
"There is only one race, the human race" - The Neville Brothers
McClatchy Newspaper Assets Don't Look Fit to Print
Submitted by bubba z (not verified) on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 9:47pm.McClatchy paid $4.6 billion for Knight-Ridder Inc. and sold the parts it didn't want, the publisher of the Sacramento Bee and Kansas City Star now has a stock price that's 31 percent lower than it was the day the acquisition closed.
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Chicago Tribune: Analysts assess future of newspapers
Submitted by bubba z (not verified) on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 9:51pm."Goldman Sachs recommended selling shares of McClatchy and New York Times, saying both newspaper publishers are "particularly vulnerable" to industry changes..."
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McClatchy stock drops to lowest level since 1998
Submitted by bubba z (not verified) on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 10:04pm.McClatchy stock drops to lowest level since 1998
"CEO Gary Pruitt, who was a guest speaker at a media-related investors conference in New York City this week, also said the company would consider selling its stake in CareerBuilder.com, which it also owns with Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI) and Tribune Co. (NYSE: TRB)..."
"He added that circulation at McClatchy newspapers would likely continue to decline until early 2008.."
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Noam Chomsky lectures on the media (Pt 1)
Submitted by bubba z (not verified) on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 10:59pm.McClatchy Quarterly Earnings Review
Submitted by bubba z (not verified) on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 8:12am.McClatchy, the third-largest U.S. newspaper publisher and an operator of Web sites, said its May revenue declined. Total revenue fell 10.4 percent to $180.3 million from $201.3 million. Ad sales for the month dropped 11.5 percent to $153 million versus $172.9 million in the year-ago period.
McClatchy's stock dropped 19 percent during the quarter and is down 31 percent for the year to date.
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