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- From: jms@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem)
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- Subject: Re: Digital News and Review's irresponsible attitude
- Message-ID: <25AUG199213130150@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 20:13:00 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.160634.24548@socrates.umd.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug25.160634.24548@socrates.umd.edu>, jon@socrates.umd.edu (Jonathan Kruger) writes...
- >Well, now they've merged and you're starting your stack of
- >_Digital_News_and_Review_, and, like _Digital_Review_, it's printed on
- >the same glossy non-recyclable paper!
-
- Digital News and Digital Review did not merge. Digital Review's parent
- company and Digital News' parent company both knew that there was only room
- for one publication in this market. It was only a matter of time before
- one or the other went bankrupt. Given this knowledge, Digital Review's
- parent company offered Digital News' parent company a large sum of money to
- stop publishing Digital News. In return, Digital Review received the
- rights to the Digital News name, some other information-based assets, and
- the subscriber list.
-
- Neither of the two staffs knew anything about what was going on until it
- was announced; as wholly owned subsidiaries of publishing giants, their
- opinions weren't much in demand.
-
- Digital Review's parent company did not buy the staff or expertise of
- Digital News. I believe that both staffs are reasonably unhappy with the
- situation: the Digital News staff because they're now scrambling for jobs
- or are unemployed; the Digital Review staff because they aren't being given
- additional resources, despite their new responsibility to cover Digital
- News' niches as well.
-
- In any case, best way to think of this is that Digital Review has changed
- its name, and Digital News is now out of business. (and that I'm looking
- for a job...)
-
- jms
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- Joel M Snyder, 1103 E Spring Street, Tucson, AZ, 85719
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- DIDI... is that a MARTIAN name, or, are we in ISRAEL?
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