Brandon
Law, political theory, language, computers.
Attorney at schwartzapc.com
President at boomajoom.com
Nothing I post is legal advice, and I’m not your attorney. Occasional Escrow Manager.
- Stealing "Your Honor, in the ancient libraries of Ashurbanipal, scribes carried their stylus as both tool and sacred trust - understanding, that every mark upon clay would endure long beyond their mortal span" for some kind of future filing.
- Not so fast bsky.app/profile/warr...
- If I’m rolling with this banger, what makes you think the facts would slow me down?
- please stop saying i look so good for an animorph
- You look like shit for an animorph.
- Jeff Bezos isn't "destroying" @washingtonpost.com. A 🧵:
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View full threadWhat's happening at @washingtonpost.com is not unique to it. Bezos made a mistake by buying the paper. He even admitted he knows nothing about the newspaper business. Bad move.
- The proper thing to do after buying the paper would be to dismantle it, root and stem. Keep the name, but start over. Hire people with engineering backgrounds to manage it, make your salespeople salary only, and don't let editorial make business decisions based on guilt.
- Why isn't your employer profitable? You should be trying to tackle that problem rather than trying to guilt people into a subscription. Guilt is only an effective marketing strategy if you're a church or non-profit. A newspaper is neither.
- (I'm not trying to be harsh, I personally know how rough a lay off is.)
- The best you get are "innovation committees" and doling out money to parasites like this firm (borrellassociates.com) who will survey your newspaper advertisers to see if they like advertising in the newspaper. When talent leaves, you'll only hire people with newspaper backgrounds.
- In closing, journalists do great work. Those who find themselves laid off or at risk of a lay off (that means all of them), should take this all into consideration when looking for employment.
- Sometimes you start begging. The text in this TLDR ask for money is 395 words. The text of the article (www.theguardian.com/film/2023/ma...) is 649 words. Yikes. ("We're not corporate owned" says the publicly traded media company owned largely by a trust company.)
- Internally, no one can fix it. Management assumes it's just bad prior management or the fault of someone at the top. Everyone below them agrees. Anyone who sees the writing on the wall is a pariah, and will be actively driven from the organization. Ask me how I know.
