John Morton
John Morton
choices soul purpose
The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally?
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The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.
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That structure is somewhat different than what we outside the deal had surmised,
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This is in response to fairly weak advertising performance. Consumers are just not stepping up to spend money the way they usually do.
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This is in response to fairly weak advertising performance,
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I'm sure Sherman is not going to be a happy camper at 65 bucks, which is the price that's been talked about a lot. It would serve (him) right. He got this all started.
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The news staffs of the newspapers affected have all been pretty fat by industry standards, ... The cuts don't leave these newspapers in what I would call a weakened condition.
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That's talked about a lot, but it usually never happens.
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It's an attractive market, which is why there are so many people fighting for market share over there. The Washington Post is never going to get down to the chicken-dinner coverage of these communities, and some of these community newspapers come close to that.
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Tony Ridder inherited a company that had a lot of newspaper companies that are not in growing markets and would never be in growing markets. That's what he inherited, and that's what he had to work with.
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An early victim would be the Philadelphia Daily News, no matter who acquires the company. It's much more profitable to publish one newspaper than two in the same market. It's a kind of miracle Knight Ridder kept it going this long.
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This is quite a dramatic change from what the history of the company has been in terms of whom the board has chosen to lead it.
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They're sort of like anchors at a shopping mall. They tend to draw people to the newspaper.
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These newspapers generally have by industry standards fairly fat news staffs, so generally the layoffs are not draconian,