Me N’ Dougie
July 18th, 2008
July 18th, 2008
June 22nd, 2008
He’s so stinkin’ cuuuuute!!
I can’t wait to see this movie next weekend.
Not only will I see this movie, but I will go to Cedar Point, a rehearsal dinner, a wedding, church, lunch with friends, and the rest of my 4-day weekend home is to be determined. I’m so excited to come home! I never thought I’d say it, but I miss Bowling Green tons.
June 7th, 2008
The Tribune Company is cutting back on pages and staff. Will Gannett be next? I better start producing more inches of content, huh?
From the New York Times:
Tribune Co. Plans Sharp Cutbacks at Papers
Tribune Company newspapers like The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune will quickly cut costs — by printing fewer papers and employing fewer journalists — top company executives said on Thursday.
Samuel Zell, the chairman and chief executive of Tribune, and Randy Michaels, the company’s chief operating officer, revealed the cuts during a conference call with Wall Street analysts.
They also said the struggling company has looked at the column inches of news produced by each reporter, and by each paper’s news staff. Finding wide variation, they said, they have concluded that it could do without a large number of news employees and not lose much content.
Mr. Michaels said of the changes, “This is going to happen quickly.”
Mr. Zell said, “I promise you he’s underestimating the level of aggressiveness with which we are attacking this whole challenge.”
They said the company would aim for a 50-50 split between ads and news across all the news pages (excluding classified ads and advertising supplements). Mr. Michaels said this would mean eliminating 500 pages of news a week across all of the company’s 12 papers.
“If we take, for instance, The Los Angeles Times to a 50-50 ratio, we will be eliminating about 82 pages a week,” Mr. Michaels said, leaving the smallest papers of the week at 56 news pages.” - RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
To view the rest of the article go HERE.
In other news, I went to the Muncie bar “The Fickle Peach” with a few coworkers last night. It is the young professional bar in town, and I think probably the nicest one in town. I tried a Harp Lager beer, an Irish beer, and thought it was good. I honestly can’t tell the difference between that and a Miller Lite, though.
This morning I’m going to clean the house and attempt to kill all the spiders. Then, who knows!
June 2nd, 2008
Justin will probably never talk to me again after he reads this, but I saw the “Sex and the City” movie last night with some coworkers…and enjoyed it. I’m not even going to bother writing this on the pseudobook review because I know I’d be ripped apart.
Now, I’ve never really gotten into the show. Sometimes I would flip through channels and if I saw it on TBS I might watch for a bit. But this movie can stand alone, I think, and still make sense.
Of course, I’m sure there was bad language (although I’ve heard so much in my lifetime I hardly notice anymore) and some pretty racy sex scenes (it is called “Sex and the City” after all). But I did enjoy it.
There were some REALLY funny parts to this movie that had me laughing out loud (yeah, they were kind of inappropriate). Some parts made me want to cry. Some parts made me really wish I had a group of close girlfriends that cared about me that much and that I cared about.
I would say that this is definitely a fun movie to go see with a group of girlfriends. Guys, you might like it (probably not the Edwards guys, though). The executive editor of my newspaper liked it, though.
May 27th, 2008