<div dir="ltr">I find it fascinating that at the same time businesses are scrambling to get on the customer-loyalty bandwagon so many continue to treat employees as readily-disposable assets.<div>I believe that is a badly flawed business model and now that customers -- including readers -- have more choices -- one that can have major impacts.</div><div>Remember, most people consider(ed) Jon Stewart and The Daily Show more credible than EVERY other news program!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 at 22:49, Tom Henderson <<a href="mailto:thenderson@extremelabs.com">thenderson@extremelabs.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>It's my belief that it's about relationships and mutual
understanding.</p>
<p>I've known JD for a long time. He's not the most ingratiating
individual, but is tenable. <br>
</p>
<p>For a journalist doing tech, he's an astute journalist. He's not
a practitioner of the tech arts, and from his observation points,
is skilled at separating wheat from chaff.</p>
<p>PCMag's termination process isn't much different than how CMP,
Ziff, Penton, and a dozen others whacked their staff, even after a
long tenure as a freelancer. Most treated their W2 staff the same
way.... or much worse. <br>
</p>
<p>For many commercial endeavors, it's the golden rule: they which
hath the gold maketh the rules. <br>
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<p>Tom<br>
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<div class="m_-851129774652383989moz-cite-prefix">On 09/22/2018 09:37 PM, Dana
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<div dir="ltr">I agree. It's terrible. But it should send a lesson
to all writers, right down to the lowest j-school.
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<div>Don't give your loyalty to a publisher. Be your own boss.
We all need to be free agents. </div>
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<div>I didn't do that in my career, and I've paid a price, in
lost readers, and lost opportunities. I think all of us have.
We need to stop doing it. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 5:29 PM Richi Jennings
<<a href="mailto:richi.ipg@richi.uk" target="_blank">richi.ipg@richi.uk</a>>
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<div dir="auto">Even I got a phone call from Scot. After just
11 years.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, 22 Sep 2018, 10:22 pm sjvn, <<a href="mailto:sjvn@vna1.com" target="_blank">sjvn@vna1.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 21:48 -0700, Mac McCarthy
wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite">Geez!</blockquote>
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<div>I haven't seen eye to eye with Dvorak over the
years, but seriously. 36 years in and what appears to
be a form letter e-mail closing down his column?
That's just sad.</div>
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<div>I mean, I know there's no loyalty from publishers
to writers, but come on! Would it have killed them to
send him a personal note? </div>
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<div>Steven</div>
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