{"id":1845,"date":"2009-01-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/startribune-circling-the-drain\/"},"modified":"2009-01-16T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T14:00:00","slug":"startribune-circling-the-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/startribune-circling-the-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"StarTribune Circling The Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies to Bob Dylan, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/news\/ci_11466721?source=rss\" target=\"_blank\">chapter 11 bankruptcy of one of our local papers<\/a>, the StarTribune, has been a slow train coming.&#160; Clearly this is one of the worst dailies in the entire US.&#160; Mismanaged, cash-strapped and unbelievably biased, this newspaper has been on the edge of inevitability for 2 years.&#160; Yesterday they finally filed.<\/p>\n<p>I am certain they will cut costs and restructure their debt before coming out of bankruptcy, but in the end I don\u2019t think it will matter.&#160; The game has changed; day-old news printed on paper is a thing of the past.&#160; The world is steadily moving towards instant, on-demand.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly reporting will continue\u2026it needs to, but I think the only sustainable media for newspapers is online.&#160; Develop the website, draw in the visitors and charge advertisers for those pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies to Bob Dylan, but the chapter 11 bankruptcy of one of our local papers, the StarTribune, has been a slow train coming.&#160; Clearly this is one of the worst dailies in the entire US.&#160; Mismanaged, cash-strapped and unbelievably biased, this newspaper has been on the edge of inevitability for 2 years.&#160; Yesterday they finally filed. I am certain they will cut costs and restructure their debt before coming out of bankruptcy, but in the end I don\u2019t think it will matter.&#160; The game has changed; day-old news printed on paper is a thing of the past.&#160; The world is steadily moving towards instant, on-demand. Clearly reporting will continue\u2026it&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/startribune-circling-the-drain\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[1152,1153],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-newspaper-collapse","tag-startribune-bankruptcy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-tL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1332,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/sports-and-selling\/","url_meta":{"origin":1845,"position":0},"title":"Sports And Selling","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Older article here from our local StarTribune paper - Sales Skills Hiring Managers Seek.\u00a0 There are some interesting points from the quotes in the article, but one thing that stands out to me are these quotes from different recruiters: ...and have achieved in athletics. and A sports background also helps.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring Salespeople&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring Salespeople","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/hiring-salespeople\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2269,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/the-illegality-of-facebook-due-diligence\/","url_meta":{"origin":1845,"position":1},"title":"The Illegality Of Facebook Due Diligence","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, there isn\u2019t any precedence yet, according to this StarTribune article.\u00a0 Clearly the proper use of social networking sites during background checks for candidates is going to be a tremendously important legal topic soon.\u00a0 This topic has been percolating for some time.\u00a0 The article references an obvious starting point: \"We\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":525,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/new-job-resolutions\/","url_meta":{"origin":1845,"position":2},"title":"New Job Resolutions","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The recently sold StarTribune offers this article that states the top 3 resolutions are \"losing weight, saving money and getting a new job.\" Seems logical to me in talking with others. 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