Jackieo

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Memo to P-I employees: Think lean

Posted Thu, Jan 15, 7:35 a.m.

That's the point others are making as well - Hearst blew it in its announcement by not explaining, as the Weekly puts it, the P-I is only half dead. What the hell, the P-I has always been for sale.

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How dense can they be? Pretty dense, apparently

Posted Thu, Apr 19, 7:40 a.m.

Another Waterboarder: She's Lynndie England and you're the Sunni leader. You see her scrunch her mean little face and ball her tiny white fist while, with the other boney hand, she begins to peck away at you: "If the alternative is sprawl on the Sammamish Plateau (and in Skip's no-growth ...

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You don't have street cred if you can't do the math

Posted Sat, Apr 14, 12:36 p.m.

My point: is that it's not "growth" when you lose money: Frank Blethen added a lot of bodies to the Times, too, and also lost money. He's about to go to court to prove that it was anything BUT growth...

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You don't have street cred if you can't do the math

Posted Thu, Apr 12, 2:09 p.m.

growth is soaring: Actually, look closer and you'll see that's 2006, not this year's budget, in question: compared to 2005, salary costs increased by $55,000, or 17 percent in 2006. That's a good chunk of new cost in a budget whose revenues dropped $1,000 in 06 compared to 05. It's ...

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You don't have street cred if you can't do the math

Posted Thu, Apr 12, 11:10 a.m.

Poor Journalism: Poorly vetted and underreported, the story missed other available detail - on a Web page that, based on the story, the reporter had visited (it includes a chart on RC's half-million budget and shows its payroll soared last year). What the reader is left with is the news ...

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