Knight Out
Posted March 15th, 2006 by Chip Bok
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My newspaper has been sold. Sort of. Knight Ridder, the owner of the Akron Beacon Journal and 31 others, was bought by the McClatchy company. McClatchy has limited appetites. It only wants 20 new papers so it is selling 12 of the KR papers. The Beacon Journal is one of them.
The Akron Beacon Journal isn't just any Knight Ridder paper. It is John S. Knight's original paper. It has won 4 Pulitzers. The paper had the good taste to encase his typewriter in glass, rather than Mr. Knight himself, here in the building. The Knight empire included the Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Detroit Free Press. The company had a reputation for hiring good people and letting them do their thing. I liked working for Knight Ridder. I figured it meant I must be O.K.
All the Knight Ridder papers are profitable. Newspapers are a good deal (McClatchy thinks so too). The Beacon Journal costs 35 cents.
That's way less than a cup of coffee.
Why are you people so cheap? I don't suppose the fact that you're getting it here for free has anything to do with it.
Times are tough in the main steam. Media analyst, Dave Barry, had this to say: Newspapers are Dead. He also feels newspapers are now grasping at anything, like blogs. Hmmm.
Go crazy. Run out and buy a coffee and a newspaper right now.
March 15th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
What should we expect when our own President brags he doesn't
read newspapers ?
March 16th, 2006 at 2:05 am
Okay, here's the plan:
Back off and let those men who want to marry men, marry men.
Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women.
Allow those folks who want to abort their babies, abort their babies.
In three generations, there will be no democrats.
I love it when a plan comes together
March 16th, 2006 at 4:23 am
Auggie, I've been told that the same God that made gays and
democrats, made you too. I suggest you take your complaints directly to God. If he doesn't return your call, try Bill O'Reilly.
Chip, a friend of mine works for a government agency that brought an "efficiency" expert in the other day to discuss ways to save time. One of her suggestions was to NOT read newspapers because if something is really important, then it will be on TV.
Apparently it never occurred to this expert to watch less TV.
I'm guessing skipping meetings with consultants is a great way to save time too.
March 16th, 2006 at 8:10 am
Let the job hunt begin! What will the Beacon be without Bok?
September 30th, 2006 at 10:48 am
wow