OT: Please Support nj.com

RU4Real

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FYI - sounds like a lot of MSM outlets are circling the drain:

News Media Outlets Have Been Ravaged by the Pandemic
Roughly 28,000 workers at news companies nationwide have been laid off, furloughed or had their pay reduced. Some publications that rely on ads have shut down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/business/media/news-media-coronavirus-jobs.html

I've also heard bad things about the future of low-level pharma execs with no discernible job description.
 
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RU4Real

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Those employees are in the sales force.
:)

Right.

My point exactly.

TBH, I'm a little annoyed with you. If your job was taken up by a random hot chick then there's just that many more random (drunk) hot chicks hanging out in random hotel bars waiting to be picked up.
 

SkilletHead2

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everyone is in it for the money.

The vast majority of their coverage over the last 30 years, didn't trash RU. No one else has the same reach, which is the entire state, and has devoted the same resources to covering Rutgers. we'll probably be reading Steve Politi in a publication like theathletic.com. we'll be depending on tiny morsels of coverage from the Home News, NY Times, NY Post, NY Daily News, APP, The Record and the like. The day that nj.com ceases to exist will be a very sad day for Rutgers Athletics.
everyone is in it for the money.

Disagree on coverage, unless you are including printing press releases. Most of the big stuff was highly negative. "Reach" is an outmoded concept in media today. I read the NYTimes in New Zealand every day. Also read the incredibly small coverage emptywheel.com. Everything is everywhere. If nj dot com folds, that which made money will be picked up in a heartbeat.
 

RUhasarrived

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If NJ.com wants to survive all they have to do is bring back the ability for people to comment. As we all know people love giving their opinions especially when they are under the cover of a keyboard.
I used my real name on that site.
 

GoodOl'Rutgers

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I tried not to believe the conspiracy until EVERY article would use the worst possible
Photo to lead story. It was just so childish from everyone at paper to keep using photos of crowds that were taken late in the game.
Before you mention last 2 years attendence this was going on way before that !

Sadly it’s the only real source and I still scan thru home page for updates and open Rutgers sports section once a day. May not read article but a scan to check for any new news

:Angry“Is this new news or old news. “:Angry
The moment I decided to kill the Star-LEdger from being delivered.. and never taking them up on their FREE offers either.. was when I saw a preseason special section going on nearly 20 years ago.. circa 2003 or so. The preseason section is presumably about that years players and coaches and what we can expect to see for teh coming season. And yet, they took a good portion of that section for a very long story recapping every game from the previous season.. which was a dismal season.. lowlights from every one of the defeats, highlighted.

I also remember went here were rumors on the basketball side of a 4-5 players package that would have changed Rutgers basketball prospects.. that the Star-Ledger used interviews with teh players to lobby against it.

That doesn't even mention the whole fake news attacks on Schiano and Mulcahy over GS' contract and AD spending.
 

knightfan7

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You know me better than that. Somehow my comment is presented under Al's name. I'd change it, but it now seems funny to me.

Hey professor, I saw your pic over on tos. Don't mean this as a bad thing. It occurred to me if they ever remake Lord of the Rings, you are not only in the right place but have the look going for you.
 
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e5fdny

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You know me better than that. Somehow my comment is presented under Al's name. I'd change it, but it now seems funny to me.

Hey professor, I saw your pic over on tos. Don't mean this as a bad thing. It occurred to me if they ever remake Lord of the Rings, you are not only in the right place but have the look going for you.
If I ever get "Down Under" I am going to make sure I stop in NZ too.
 

angmo

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RUBOB72

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The Comments section was always a steaming pile of bubbling moronicalness.
Evidently you must have spent time on the comments section to understand they removed it because there were many anti NJ.com replies. If it didn’t fit their personal agenda and viewpoint well: that was verboten.
 
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DanRU

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Evidently you must have spent time on the comments section to understand they removed it because there were many anti NJ.com replies. If it didn’t fit their personal agenda and viewpoint well: that was verboten.
Many factually correct user comments were simply deleted when they easily showed the information in the "article" was wrong.
 

MADHAT1

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that's ancient history now! Mostly when people complain about the SL they are complaining about coverage from the Flood/Ash years.
For my part, the ancient history from the original NSL coverage of the first Schiano era can never be forgotten.
You know when a group of people have to take out an ad in a media outlet to refute the lies that newspaper is spreading, that's something that should not ever be forgotten..

It will take more than going with the crowd to make me think that leopard changed its spots.
It will take me finding out the NST has become a source of unbiased coverage , not a cheerleader but one that doesn't slant it's coverage according to how the wind is blowing and not trying to exaggerate the negative while minimizing the positive in which the NSL has a disgusting history of doing
 

SkilletHead2

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Hey professor, I saw your pic over on tos. Don't mean this as a bad thing. It occurred to me if they ever remake Lord of the Rings, you are not only in the right place but have the look going for you.
I'm definitely wizened enough to be a wizard, don't know if I have the "wise" part down yet.

Speaking of LOTR wizards, a few years back I was in Heathrow changing planes and Moms Skillethead was recovering from a foot operation, so we got ferried around in one of those golf cart things. On one of them I was sitting in the back and Moms in the front, and an old guy in a panama hat sits down next to me. He, too, was coming from NZ to Europe. I asked him if he lived in NZ, and he says, "Nope, just filming." "Filming?" I ask. "Yeah, Lord of the Rings. I play Radigast the Brown in the latest film."

Well, now the game is on. We had an incredible twenty minutes (gates weren't open), with Moms talking to his nephew up front. He had twisted an ankle or something. So the guy I'm talking to is Sylvester McCoy (whom I'd never heard of) and I asked him if he had ever been in something I might know. He says, "Well, I was the seventh Dr. Who." Turns out he also did security for the Stones for a while. We were telling stories and laughing our rear ends off the whole time. When we got to the gate, Moms says, "Who the hell was that?" I said, "Just some guy." (I later told her.)
 
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LotusAggressor_rivals

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Not that it will mean much to folks, but the guy that wrote the plea, Kevin Whitmer, is an alum. Not saying what to do, because I understand it's hard to support an outfit that hires the likes of Matt Stanmyre, Ted Sherman and Josh Margolin who seem to specialize in hit pieces on the things we hold dear. Just saying, there are loyal sons, and daughters, there too.
Where were the loyal sons at NJ.com when Rutgers was being crapped on with irresponsible hatchet jobs after Schiano achieved some measure of success?
 

rurichdog

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Evidently you must have spent time on the comments section to understand they removed it because there were many anti NJ.com replies. If it didn’t fit their personal agenda and viewpoint well: that was verboten.
They killed the comments section just in time. Maybe two months later we were in the novel Coronavirus' grasp. The comment threads would have been epic.