September 1, 2008

ModBee’s Vasché to commenters: “Huh?”

By : Roy
Filed under : advertising, business

Vasché: He just doesn’t get it.
Margaret Randazzo, President of The Modesto Bee (aka McClatchy Modesto), wrote a piece last Sunday about how The Bee cares about the local community and despite McClatchy missing the mark on keeping pace with the news industry, The Bee still has a strong death grip on local information reporting. Oh and [...]


August 26, 2008

FAIL: Modesto Bee website

By : Roy
Filed under : business

They can’t even get there own advertisments right, what makes you think they’ll get yours right?  Frontpage of the Modesto Bee’s website today gets you this hideous advertisement as you are trying to read the latest headlines, practically begging you to subscribe to the paper edition:

I was curious as to how this could be the [...]


August 24, 2008

The Modesto Bee/McClatchy just don’t get it, fail local businesses

By : Roy

The talk around business circles is that The Modesto Bee has made some pretty significant changes:  ad design work is being outsourced to a firm overseas and the printing of the paper has been taken to The Sacramento Bee facility. The Bee has also reduced its workforce by 7 percent, and last week, offered voluntary layoffs to [...]


June 17, 2008

Poll crashing time

By : Roy
Filed under : gay issues, poll crashing

Well it’s the second day of legal marriages for same-sex couples in California. The Modesto Bee published a poll on their website that asks, “Do you approve of same-sex marriage?” So far Yes is up by 5 votes, but I think we need to widen that gap between the Yes’s and the No’s.
Get [...]


May 16, 2008

The morning after…

By : Roy

The Modesto Bee reported on the California Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage and posted it as the front-page story on their website. The article itself was mostly a string of quotes from either side of the issue, the real meat and potatoes was the comment section.
There are tons of fundamentalist religious folk who [...]