Does Anyone Proof-Read This Crap?
By Mitch Berg
The new Lori Sturdevant column is headlined:
Legislative session could be idea-rich, cash-poor
Do you suppose anyone will make the connection?
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November 12th, 2007 at 10:37 am
I note many more typographical errors now, since the purchase/merger, than before. The StarTribune is suffering from Walmartitis, the common affliction of senior management assuming that the issue is employee pay & presence and that only THEY (the leadership) are worth the money spent.
I wonder when we – as a nation – will begin to understand the cumulative effect of mass layoffs, offshoring, depressed wages – other than that it makes Wall Street tycoons happy and CEO’s rich. Not anytime soon, but someday.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:44 am
This post really isn’t about the Strib, per se, but…
I note many more typographical errors now, since the purchase/merger, than before.
True.
The StarTribune is suffering from Walmartitis
Well, not quite. WalMart sells (on razor-thin margins) things that people want to people who are willing to pay (not much) for it. Hence, it’s a success, for better or worse.
The Strib is hawking a product that advertisers are dropping in droves, whose market shelf date has at least partially passed.
I wonder when we – as a nation – will begin to understand the cumulative effect of mass layoffs, offshoring, depressed wages – other than that it makes Wall Street tycoons happy and CEO’s rich. Not anytime soon, but someday.
As a larger question? We’ll see.
It doesn’t really apply to the Strib’s difficulties. They’re a dinosaur in an industry that is restructuring around them.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:03 am
I like that in the first paragraph she identifies hand wringing as an important part of the political process
the Magna Carta would never have happened without the hand wringers I suppose
November 12th, 2007 at 11:04 am
If $36 billion dollars is cash poor I’d really like to be cash poor, too.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:50 am
I don’t think all leadership is the same. *shrug*
November 12th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
How about an idea-rich, cash-rich option? Like banning public funding of abortions in Minnesota? Why do I think Lori “Can the DFL provide me a new set of knee pads because the current ones are worn out?” Strudevent would not approve?
November 12th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
[…] Lori “If you’re not passing out from the pain, you’re not paying enough in taxes” Sturdevant takes to the Stribwaves and *gasp* says the only solution to Minnesota’s education system is more money. In fact, the title of the column is “Legislative session could be idea-rich, cash-poor.” (Squire Berg noted the title as well.) […]
November 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Nerdbert mused: “If $36 billion dollars is cash poor I’d really like to be cash poor, too.”
At least you have a better shot at that than at being idea-rich.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
“At least you have a better shot at that than at being idea-rich.”
Said the man in greasepaint and floppy shoes in the NYC hovel.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
At least you have a better shot at that than at being idea-rich.
You have a better shot at being irony-rich, AC.
November 12th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Whether the Strib is emblematic of the overall malaise in our economy is, I suppose, open for debate. On the one hand, you’re right that it’s in a dinosaur industry – rapidly replaced by the likes of Entertainment Tonight, TMZ and Faux News. Content, it seems, is no longer in vogue.
On the other, it’s being run by bean counters, with the same ethical compass as Walmart – i.e. essentially none – and NO that doesn’t mean I think profits are bad, or any of the rest of the juvenile BS responses – it means, most bean counters don’t grasp the cumulative effects of pushing 100,000 people out of a job. Walmart syndrome is a pretty well understood phenomenon in small towns now, so much so that many are passing ordinances to keep them from arriving – they are normally death for the town, and then, because no one has a job anymore that pays beans, for themselves (and YEAH I know they make a lot of money). if we don’t grasp thst stripping the middle-class of decent paying jobs is a recipe for ruin, whether the Strib is a symbol or not, well, we’re baking up ruin.
As for AC and irony rich, it sure looks like he declines to use better irony before breakfast, let alone what he posts, than most of us could think of in a day. Thank God for AC.
Mitch, did you see the story about Douglass Kerr, what do you think of his position – namely, that we should trust the government/require them to safeguard our data, rather than hang on to antiquated ideas of privacy?
This was in the paper today – and is the kind of reporting you don’t see on CBS or Fox, and certainly not very often in the National Review or The New Yorker.