McClatchy Announces Wage Freeze

Coming on the heels of the stru-guh-ling newspaper chain’s ditching of 10 percent of its workforce (including 130 at the Startlegram), McClatchy has announced a one-year wage freeze starting September 1. Sorry, KC and John. But happy Labor Day!

17 comments

  1. oh no! Did the Star T layoff the DFW Hobos? Los DFW Lobos??? What was the name of the web based news show they had that Tim linked us to a few months ago?! DFW Mo Show? It was a young dude and a girl doing a few minutes of Talk Soup like local news. Anyone remember or am I going LoCo?

    @ 1:38 pm on August 14, 2008
  2. EVEN BIGGER NEWS, GANNET SHEDS 1,000!
    I love it! The liberal media is crumpling…
    Muh-ha-ha-ha!

    http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003839085

    @ 1:52 pm on August 14, 2008
  3. Yes. The USA Today is known as a bastion of liberals and pinko commies.

    @ 2:00 pm on August 14, 2008
  4. I’d say the “crumpling” is more a result of rising costs, declining ad revenue and a hesitation to cut back on high-paid executives than a right-wing revolt against the media. Contrary to popular belief, this “mental recession” is taking hold everywhere.

    @ 2:11 pm on August 14, 2008
  5. Dear IAB,

    Ye shall find the answers ye seeketh behind the door labeled “KC and John.”

    @ 2:30 pm on August 14, 2008
  6. But, IAB, in answer to your last question: Going? Are you sure that’s the correct tense of that verb?

    @ 2:47 pm on August 14, 2008
  7. Hmmm. I guess you can’t throw more than three links in a post that short.

    @ 2:57 pm on August 14, 2008
  8. Mike, you are such a mammoth idiot that I would not be surprised to learn that you are in newspaper management in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

    @ 3:02 pm on August 14, 2008
  9. I see ******S replaced the word I used to describe Mike and it makes it look like I called him a dirty word. I didn’t. I used the term that usually follows “syphlitic” and precedes “savant.” So I didn’t call him a nasty word, just an accurate word. Use an i, followed by a d, then another i and an o and end with a t. It also describes this censoring system, obviously designed by a syphlitic idiot who mades with diseased mules.

    @ 3:07 pm on August 14, 2008
  10. Mates. Not mades. But you get the picture, for which I apologize to all the mules in the world.

    @ 3:08 pm on August 14, 2008
  11. Wage freeze: Why do people think that salaries should be a line on a lineal curve that only goes up.

    Life doesn’t work that way, at least not for most people including me. Business/profits/fortunes/work energy/smart decisions ebb and flow and shouldn’t the compensation of individuals do that too?

    The newspaper and magazine business is not dead nor will it die anytime soon.

    @ 3:20 pm on August 14, 2008
  12. Tom, I noticed one of TDMN’s Summer Book Club people announcing their public meeting scheduled for 2:00 PM today at 2:27 PM on their blog. Maybe that sort of ordinary everyday crumpling adds up to some of the other crumpling.

    @ 4:20 pm on August 14, 2008
  13. It must have been a short meeting. Trey was busy telling us Dallas sucks at 2:53.

    @ 4:30 pm on August 14, 2008
  14. duh, I should have noticed the tags for this post. DaFoWo show. It sounds more like a Korean car than a basket of tacos.

    @ 4:34 pm on August 14, 2008
  15. Hey, my first car was a ‘63 DaFoWo. Pushbutton transmission.

    @ 7:43 pm on August 14, 2008
  16. Mike I am glad you are so happy at others misfortunes. It seems you have as much compassion as a dog turd. Sometimes wisdon shows itself in silence, I see you have a definite lack.

    @ 5:01 pm on August 16, 2008
  17. Sue,

    If the truth hurts…now that’s my kind
    of S&M.

    @ 5:17 pm on August 19, 2008