{"id":10552,"date":"2009-11-21T03:16:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T03:16:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-21T03:16:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T03:16:03","slug":"whitmans-media-relations-plan-hope-the-newspapers-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/21\/whitmans-media-relations-plan-hope-the-newspapers-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitman&#8217;s Media Relations Plan: Hope the Newspapers Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has got to be one of the all-time great quotes. When asked about how she plans on dealing with the press, this was <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703683804574531801959125322.html\">Meg Whitman&#8217;s response<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Some of these newspapers, as you know better than I, will not be around in the near term.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her plan is to wait for the newspapers to collapse? Really? While the newspapers aren&#8217;t in great shape, expecting them to fail between now and next November seems a bit optimistic (or pessimistic for most sane humans). I&#8217;m sure all the reporters, and staff of the newspapers will appreciate her anticipation of their job losses.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, she&#8217;s got a billion or so in her bank account. Why would a few job losses trouble her? After all, she got paid to lay off workers, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has got to be one of the all-time great quotes. When asked about how she plans on dealing with the press, this was <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703683804574531801959125322.html\">Meg Whitman&#8217;s response<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Some of these newspapers, as you know better than I, will not be around in the near term.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her plan is to wait for the newspapers to collapse? Really? While the newspapers aren&#8217;t in great shape, expecting them to fail between now and next November seems a bit optimistic (or pessimistic for most sane humans). I&#8217;m sure all the reporters, and staff of the newspapers will appreciate her anticipation of their job losses.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, she&#8217;s got a billion or so in her bank account. Why would a few job losses trouble her? After all, she got paid to lay off workers, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[],"tags":[415,4467],"class_list":["post-10552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-415","tag-4467"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Kc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}