You know who else started a paper company...



/Ya.. I bet you were thinking of someone else... weren't ya

A VHS store?? Beta million dollars they don't!

The quote at the end is by far the best part of the article.

What is this newspaper you speak of?

I remember video shops. I used to go in and every week I was renting something with Gerard Depardieu or Daniel Auteill, and the guy behind the counter would be saying "Have you seen Kickboxer yet? Van Damme's fantastic in that".

It made me laugh at first. Then I got tired of being polite about it.

A VHS store. Hahaha!

eh, how many of those 4,000 people are old as hell?

people_are_chumps: What is this newspaper you speak of?

A daily circular with small, worldly stories placed in between the ads.

FTA: Moore's former staff numbered "six or seven," he said.

Does he have trouble counting higher than 5?

While major metros struggle, many newspapers still thriving in smaller towns (new window)

its a small town, if they give it away locally for free, with 4000 citizens, how many local advertisers can you get? enough to pay the salaires and the print costs? love to see her business plan...

i'd pay for a telegraph station to my house though...

Does anyone find it deliciously ironic that we're reading this on the Atlanta-Journal-Constitution's web edition?

They didn't sign a non-compete clause?

If the original newspaper was anything like my local paper, the Grand Rapids (MI) Press, I can't say that I blame them. The state of advancing death for the newspaper business is such that a group of talented writers could easily pull that off and end up with a more successful paper. It still wouldn't last long though.

I hope the AJC takes note. It's about the suckiest newspaper on the planet.

justoneznot: They didn't sign a non-compete clause?

Some states like California are "Right to Work" which prohibit and will not recognize any such non-compete agreements in anyway shape or form. And even if it is a State such as New York or Washington State that consider people to be peons under their corporate masters and give non-competes full enforcement under law, if they never gave you a non-compete to sign, then there's nothing the company can do about it.

I was hoping it was the staff of the AJC. I do read "newspapers" even though I am habitually disappointed. I, generally, despise the following sections: Arts, Living, Food & Dining, Fashion, Religious Life. I am usually appalled by the lack of information on local legislatures and politics, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, national and international news. In my opinion, newspapers would sell far better if they really were newspapers instead of Fluff&Stuff papers. And I'd rather read a well done weekly than a piss poor daily paper.