Ax falling at Advertiser

[pumpkinboy]

Re: Ax falling at Advertiser

LMAO. Looks like bruddah was doing an especially good a job guarding the newsroom snack area.

Yeah, how come he looks so angry?

Did someone eat his secret stash of malassadas or something?


Looks like he couldn't even walk up a flight of stairs w/o coughing up a lung.

[Media Guy]

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Hmm, seems to be quite a bit of animosity towards the Advertiser.
This is a question purely out of my own ignorance, but is it possible that the majority of the Advertiser employees, including management, are just regular folk that have families and bills to pay, so they simply follow corporate marching orders in order to stay gainfully employed like the rest of us?

[buzz1941]

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Big guards. Because God forbid the Honolulu Star-Bulletin might want to take some of the photos it should rightly own back from Gannett.

This might be a little too "inside baseball" for some folks. I'll explain. The two newspapers had a joint library. When the Gannett Advertiser announced its intentions to kill its partner, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Gannett "seized" the physical assets of the Star-Bulletin. This included hundreds of thousands of photographs in the library. Although Gannett has physical "ownership" of the photographic prints, they do not have copyright, and cannot use them -- although they occasionally do. The point was to deny the Star-Bulletin access to its own resources. (They also took pictures off the walls, bolts of fabric with the Star-Bulletin logo, a box of gold watches for 25-year veterans, anything off desks and out of drawers they took a shine to. It was like the Russians in Berlin in '45.)

However, the Gannett Advertiser also denies access to these archival photographs to citizens, private researchers and historians. Which is really too bad, because all that does is bitch-slap the people of Hawaii. If the Gannett Advertiser really had a sense of public spirit, they'd donate the Star-Bulletin pictures to the State Archives or some other public facility where citizens can have access to them.

It shows you how phony and transparent Mike Fisch's highly publicized membership in outfits like Historic Hawaii really was.

[mediababy67]

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Big guards. Because God forbid the Honolulu Star-Bulletin might want to take some of the photos it should rightly own back from Gannett.

[MixedPlateBroker]

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LMAO. Looks like bruddah was doing an especially good a job guarding the newsroom snack area.

[buzz1941]

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You mean, once we got out of the Advertiser building, where 300-pound security guards hired by Gannett leaned over us while we worked? I'd say, less intimidating.

[Leo Lakio]

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The Star-Bulletin seemed to have a better sense of "family" than the Advertiser.

I'd be curious to know (since we have a handful of long-term S-B staffers visiting HT) in what ways the atmosphere changed there with the change in ownership a few years back. Better in some ways, worse in others? Only what you feel comfortable saying, of course.

[Composite 2992]

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I feel for those at the 'Tizer. Back when the 'Bull was having hard times, my head was on the chopping block (last hired -- first fired). But the staffers rallyed, and accepted a pay cut so that I, and others, could keep our jobs. .

The Star-Bulletin seemed to have a better sense of "family" than the Advertiser. The atmosphere at both newsrooms were very obvious from the moment one sets foot in either one. Advertiser people could walk into the Bulletin's newsroom and talk story almost anytime. You couldn't do the opposite at all. At least that's what I was told by those who knew it over the years.

[mediababy67]

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A misunderstanding of emoticons is more than likely what will launch WW3.

And now ... back to the topic.

[TuNnL]

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The to me represents extreme happiness and gratification.

And I already have said I disagree with this interpretation. I could get 50 General X’rs in the same room who agree with me. Please stop derailing this thread.

[GregLee]

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This makes no sense to me Tunnl.

I think TuNnL was giving his own personal interpretation of the graphic, not realizing that Leo Lakio had given a conventional name for it. Hey, did you know there are three Unicode emoticons (as I just discovered when I looked up "stick out tongue")? They're U+2639(☹), U+263A(☺), U+263B(☻). (They look okay as I edit this, but I don't know whether they'll pass through to the posting.)

[lavagal]

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I feel for those at the 'Tizer. Back when the 'Bull was having hard times, my head was on the chopping block (last hired -- first fired). But the staffers rallyed, and accepted a pay cut so that I, and others, could keep our jobs. For that, I pledge everything I have to my co-workers at the 'Bull. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be an option at the 'Tizer. Rather than "save money", I think they (management) just want to get rid of people to look good to corporate -- "yeah we're doing our part to pare down expenses."

Sad, indeed.

Thanks for bringing this thread back to its intention, Dick.

[pumpkinboy]

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That’s an interesting question. For me, it usually represents hand-wringing, frustration, scowling, and defeat. It’s sort of what would happen if you had + with a little of. IMHO, it’s a complicated emotion (or emoticon in the e-world). It’s one that has evolved beginning in high school, when girlfriends would use “pager code” to communicate since cell phones were far less common then. But yes, waaaaaay, way back in my hanabata days of hopscotch, tetherball, and hide-and seek... before the invention of the Microsoft Windows®... I would have went by the Leo Lakio definition.

This makes no sense to me Tunnl.

The to me represents extreme happiness and gratification.

As someone else posted surely you aren't extremely happy and gratified that people are losing their jobs?

[dick]

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I feel for those at the 'Tizer. Back when the 'Bull was having hard times, my head was on the chopping block (last hired -- first fired). But the staffers rallyed, and accepted a pay cut so that I, and others, could keep our jobs. For that, I pledge everything I have to my co-workers at the 'Bull. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be an option at the 'Tizer. Rather than "save money", I think they (management) just want to get rid of people to look good to corporate -- "yeah we're doing our part to pare down expenses."

Sad, indeed.

[TuNnL]

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What emotion does "stick out tongue" represent to you, just out of curiosity?

That’s an interesting question. For me, it usually represents hand-wringing, frustration, scowling, and defeat. It’s sort of what would happen if you had + with a little of . IMHO, it’s a complicated emotion (or emoticon in the e-world). It’s one that has evolved beginning in high school, when girlfriends would use “pager code” to communicate since cell phones were far less common then. But yes, waaaaaay, way back in my hanabata days of hopscotch, tetherball, and hide-and seek... before the invention of the Microsoft Windows®... I would have went by the Leo Lakio definition.