John Morton Quotes (26 Quotes)

But a bricks-and-mortar office can boost reader loyalty. A local presence in the form of a bureau or some kind of office is part of the newspaper company's image, ... You are taking away something that people are accustomed to.

The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally?

A head-to-head between tabloids is as New York as cheesecake. Fortunately we have two owners who are willing to sink their money into it. It would be a terrible thing if it went away, and as a newspaper lover, I hope they just keep doing it.

You don't want to just give this information to every Tom, Dick and Harry. You only want to give it to people who are going to do something with it.

There are only so many growth markets. As concentration of ownership goes forward, you'll see future acquisitions of newspaper chains go pretty much the way this one did The buyer will keep the growth markets and discard the rest.

They're sort of like anchors at a shopping mall. They tend to draw people to the newspaper.

This is quite a dramatic change from what the history of the company has been in terms of whom the board has chosen to lead it.

I'm sure it's a chapter in the paper's history they're glad to have behind them.

He has most of the dailies that now surround San Francisco proper and this only enlarges his presence in the area. With the California properties, Singleton has more of a motive than other folks to pay a higher price because it would enhance what he already owns.

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business.

Tony Ridder inherited a company that had a lot of newspaper companies that are not in growing markets and would never be in growing markets. That's what he inherited, and that's what he had to work with.

There is no limit to the power of loving.

Let's just say you didn't want to make Ramon Ramos mad. Ramon had your back.

It was a perfect target Tony Ridder has known this for years and that's why he was pounding for the need to improve profitability. His worst nightmare came true.

You need to know what's for sale and what isn't. Allowing ads and editorial content to get blurred, however you do it, is in the long run inimical to a newspaper's reputation - and probably to its business.

It's an attractive market, which is why there are so many people fighting for market share over there. The Washington Post is never going to get down to the chicken-dinner coverage of these communities, and some of these community newspapers come close to that.

The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.

I used to think in the good old days, all a newspaper had to do to attract circulation was to put out a better newspaper. But young people don't seem any more inclined to read a good newspaper than a bad one.

An early victim would be the Philadelphia Daily News, no matter who acquires the company. It's much more profitable to publish one newspaper than two in the same market. It's a kind of miracle Knight Ridder kept it going this long.

These newspapers generally have by industry standards fairly fat news staffs, so generally the layoffs are not draconian,

The news staffs of the newspapers affected have all been pretty fat by industry standards, ... The cuts don't leave these newspapers in what I would call a weakened condition.

There are very few places where this occurs any longer, because there are very few places that have competitive newspapers.

As an afternoon paper, it wasn't a question of if (the News would close down), it was a question of when.

When Tribune acquired Times Mirror they acquired papers with much lower operating profits than Tribune papers have traditionally thrown off. The L.A. Times has a larger staff than is typical for that size of paper. They've been trying to address that without appearing to be a slash-and-burn company.

This is in response to fairly weak advertising performance,

I'm 99 today and I'll be 100 tomorrow. It's another day.