Jackson Jambalaya

If C-L would just dump Hampton and hire some carriers who actually deliver papers, they might make money.

Well, now I know why they overcharged my credit card without authorization - However, they will not get a second opportunity - I canceled my subscription and threatened them with legal action if the money was not returned immediately - bunch of crooks!

If the IT department is responsible for the website, they all need to be fired. Just saying.

Anon 8:11, I canceled my subscription and continued to receive papers for almost three years. Enjoy your future windfall.

I am thinking about cancelling despite having a paper delivered at my house since the day I was born. The customer service department is a joke. Nobody at the Clarion Ledger cares about service. Lay-off the whole bunch as far as I'm concerned.

I'm touched by the compassion shown by Donna Ladd as she tweets and updates her facebook status every fifteen minutes regarding Gannett. Jesus. Could she be a bit more subtle as she literally foams at the mouth? This couldn't possibly be easy for any of these people including the ones that survived. And while she goes on and on blah blah blah about being local, the PEOPLE that work at Clarion-Ledger/Gannett are local too. THEY live here. THEY shop here. THEY work here. So while I don't have the appetite to endure her self-righteousness in person, I'll send this message to her through here (since we all know she reads it).

Donna, take your insincere, disingenuous, self-rightous and self-promoting (all in the name of the voiceless) ass and SHOVE IT!

The CL will go the way of the dinosaurs.......their time has come and gone!!

No credibility in their work, no standards, no ethics, not one hour
of continuing education required to work in the field, no governing body...it makes you wonder how in the world someone can get a degree in that field. My advice to people who work there......get a real job in the real world.

Posted at the Gannett Blog is this comment claiming to be CL Publisher Leslie Hurst's email to staff.

1. If they are the #1 Media group in the market, that should mean #2 and #3 should also be laying off?

B. There is no customer service in Jackson it was all moved to Greenville, SC a few years ago with their last reduced what ever they call it.

Should have kept the editors judging from the minor expletive/typo in Dear Abby today.

Speaking of frauds, Morgan Keegan settled today for $210 million. Seems like a bargain compared to the damage they did.

The best use for that rag is fodder for charcoal grill starters! Beyond that, it's worthless...

11:47

They've all laid off or at least not replaced with attrition. Broadcasters, cable, print, ad agencies. CL just has more to cut and so when they do they hit the headlines. Two years ago Clear Channel laid off 2200 in one day company wide including several here. Not a word of it that I recall appeared in the news. They seem to be doing fine. It happens. Everyone is be challenged in ways that are unprecedented.

The problem with the C-L is Gannett. If the local people here could make their own decisions, it would be much more profitable and not nearly as many layoffs. Gannett has ruined that paper, and it's a shame.

I called early this am about typo in Dear Abby. Was told by Ronnie Agnew's assistant that it was syndicated so they had nothing to do with it. Later I found out how wrong she was. Check out Dear Abby's column today in some other venues. The line was supposed to say "she beat on me." How did they get the expletive out of that? Why are they fooling with the column anyway? Should be printed as written.

Donner Kay is all for the "little guy/working man/woman," so long as they don't work for her competitors. If they do, she morphs into an unrepentant capitalist in the mold of the great achievers in "Atlas Shrugged." Dog-eat-dog is swell then.
Glad she's not a hypocrite.

Obviously those of you commenting about Donna are racist. I know that because everyone who doesn't agree with every word she speaks or writes is a racist. She went to Columbia, you know. And she lived in NEW YORK CITY. She understands things in a way we never will because bad things happened where she grew up in Neshoba. So please apologize for slavery and leave her be. Did I mention she went to Columbia?

She's got such a boner over all this. It is ridiculous.

Feel a little sorry for the laid off folks.

Gannett now makes laid off employees first qualify for state unemployment. If you do you get Gannett severance, which is your package LESS state $ so instead of getting total Gannett beni's and then state money you get the Gannett total which now includes state money. So you wind up with less money and they wind up with more.

On the days I don't get my paper, I call them, they tell me I will get credit, but instead of credit, they go up on my yearly fee. If they would have some competent people working there that could spell, it would be nice. Unless I see Marshall's name on the cartoon, I don't even read it.

No leadership. No vision. And on many days, no paper.

I'm touched by the compassion shown by Donna Ladd as she tweets and updates her facebook status every fifteen minutes regarding Gannett. Jesus. Could she be a bit more subtle as she literally foams at the mouth?

But the joke is on Ladd as her entertainment weakly is in no position to fill the void. More people read JJ for investigative reporting than they do the Fondren cage liner.

I cancelled my subscription long ago but CL is still sending me a paper everyday. They are pretending that they have a bigger audience than they actually have in order to sell adds. Many of the people I talk to are sick of the liberal bias and have cancelled their subscriptions as well.

They still have that wannabe Indian drum beater doing a garden article. Wam-Wam Bom Poom or something like that. Surely they're not paying him to do that. Old Bill Minor will surely drop dead of grief if they lock the iron gates.

Oddly enough the C-L is hiring for two positions in Jackson:

http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=1265078

Rumor has it these jobs will go to Nashville within a year though.

Who actually in the newsroom lost jobs? I know Carey Miller used to be Metromix editor--don't know if he was still there or not when this came down. Any other names?