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The Courier-Journal is not worth 75 cents
I noticed that our local newspaper, the Courier-Journal, just upped their newsstand price to 75 cents. That just seems pretty steep for what you get out of the C-J. I don’t think they’re worth a 75 cent price.
And the Sunday price also went up a quarter, it’s now $1.75. I subscribe to the Sunday paper, I […]
90% layoff at American Home Mortgage
It had been clear all week that American Home Mortgage was in trouble, just how deep the trouble was revealed late yesterday. Apparently they could not find a way out of the mortgage mire, nobody to fund or buy them up. So they’re laying off 90% of the employees, essentially everybody involved in their mortgage-writing business. They’re […]
Courier-Journal finally realizes an Apple store is coming to Oxmoor
The intrepid reporters from our local newspaper finally learned about the Apple Store coming to Oxmoor later this year. A mere three-and-a-half months after I mentioned it back in March.
I wonder what finally clued them in? Might have been the big black wood panels that block the new storefront location in Oxmoor. Even though it’s […]
What, the Courier-Journal fails to make Top 30 Newspaper Web sites?
The list of the Top 30 Newspaper web sites for May just came out, and once again the Courier-Journal here in Louisville failed to make the list. Not a surprise, we’re hardly a big media market of any kind here.
I was surprised to see that SFGate, with 3.7 million visitors in May, is still trouncing the […]
Katie Couric ratings plunge at CBS News
The $15 million or so that CBS is reportedly paying Katie Couric isn’t looking like much of a deal–she has not exactly set the ratings on fire. In fact they recently hit a 20-year low, just 5.5 million viewers which is some 3 million less than what NBC and ABC each get for their evening news […]
Now I feel a bit sorry for Paris Hilton
Okay, seeing this post on TMZ made me feel kinda sorry for Paris Hilton. She’s being arrested after all, do you have to make fun of her outfit? And there’s photos on the same site that show her crying as she’s sitting in the back of the cop car.
She thrived on the pop media that […]
Send Paris Hilton back to jail
I cannot believe that I’m going to agree with the Reverend Al Sharpton about anything, but in this case I have no choice. Releasing Paris Hilton to home incarceration after serving just 3 days is a horrible miscarriage of justice. If she had been a pretty but poor woman instead of pretty and rich, there’s […]
These pinoys better move somewhere else
The US government just gave out a $10 million reward to four Filipino informants for information that helped US and Filipino forces find and kill two top Abu Sayyaf terrorists. Which is a good thing, but those four lucky pinoys better take the money and leave the Philippines for their own safety.
Lets face it, we Filipinos are […]
What the hell is going on with all this private equity money?
Is it just me or does it seem like there have been a ton of deals lately where private equity investors have snatched up public companies? Of course there was the big one a few weeks ago, where Cerberus agreed to snap up what’s left of Chrysler.
But that’s hardly the only recent private equity action. […]
Another round of layoffs at CNET
I don’t have as many contacts at CNET as I used to, so many of the people I knew are now ex-CNET just like me. But I have it on good authority that the company had yet another recent round of layoffs. So far I’ve only confirmed editorial folks, I don’t know if this round […]