BRUCE OVERBOARD
Where's Bruce Hunter And The "LOCAL HARD HITTING" Online Greenwich Time Editorials ????
Online Readers At The Greenwich Time Wonder If New Managing Editor Bruce Hunter Has Already Been Thrown Overboard By Hearst Newspapers.
Just when you thought things couldn't get more bizzare at the Greenwich Time....
Chaos reigns at the Greenwich Time, where new Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter and his top two lieutenants have not updated the papers online Opinion pages since last Thursday January 15th - sparking rumors that they me feuding with their corporate owners at Hearst Newspapers.
On Friday January 16th a Stamford Advocate editorial was posted online at the Greenwich Time and it has remained there for the last five days.
The online editorial was a strange editorial about a Stamford Advocate editor that was warned not to go to Juarez, Mexico, because of drugs??????
Making things more bizarre is that the online editorial was reposted on Sunday January 18th after two Greenwich Time Columnists filed stories.
There are even rumors at Town Hall that Greenwich Time Publisher John Dunster may have already axed the new Bruce Hunter Team.
Greenwich Time Publisher John "I Can't Pick A Winning Team" Dunster has went through four news paper editors in less than a year.
Greenwich Roundup's efforts to reach the "missing' Bruce Hunter by phone for a comment on Monday, were unsuccessful.
"Nobody knows what's going on," an insider said. "At first, we just assumed that the absence of the daily editorials meant even more layoffs, because advertising was off by 50 percent last quarter."
A rumor making the rounds is that Hearst Newspaper Management was furious over Greenwich Time Publisher John Dunster's decision to pull Ex-Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter out of unemployment and once again reinstate him back to the managing editor position.
The missing editorials on the Greenwich Time online edition makes the papers growing web audience to joke that Manging Editor Bruce Hunter and the other editors have failed to show up for work at the Riverside offices, because they are already using up their 3 personal, sick and vacation days - it also ignited jokes that Hunter summoned to Hearst Newspaper offices and asked to justify his job.
The joke goes along the lines of,"Bruce, please tell us just what you have done at the Greenwich Time online edition lately?"
Greenwich Time online readers are seriously wondering if Hunter's office has already been cleared out.
Many in town wonder if this is yet another sign that Hearst Newspapers is closing down the Greenwich Time.
A person answering the phone at the Greenwich Time yesterday said, "We have nothing to announce."
As of today the Greenwich Time Web Site Still Has Not Updated The Opinion Pages.
There also have been no new columnist or letter to the editor updates at the Greenwich Time's online edition.
Greenwich Time
Opinion
The Advocate Staff
Posted: 01/16/2009 09:05:46 AM EST
Posted: 01/16/2009 09:05:46 AM EST
Before you venture into Ciudad Juarez, brace yourself to hear Texans tell you that you're crazy. Visiting friends in neighboring El Paso a few days before Christmas, I was immediately warned, "Don't even think about going into Juarez.
PLEASE SEE:
01/19/09 Greenwich Time News Links For Monday Morning
Old School Greenwich Time Publisher John "I Can't Pick A Winning Team" Dunster Just Doesn't Understand The New-Fangled Internet Thing - A - Ma - Bob.
Old School Greenwich Time Publisher John "I Can't Pick A Winning Team" Dunster Just Doesn't Understand The New-Fangled Internet Thing - A - Ma - Bob.
Greenwich Time Publisher John Dunster Was A Dunce For Bringing Back Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter And Putting Ex-Greenwich Time Editor Jim Zebora In Charge Of The Business Page.....
This Is All The News That Greenwich Time Publisher John Dunster And His Managing Editor Bruce Hunter Was Able To Get Up On The Web Today.....
....On Martin Luther King Jr Day
Greenwich Time Web Site Viewers
Have A Dream That
Hearst Newspaper Head Honcho
Steven R. Swartz
Will Fire Greenwich Time Publisher
John "I Can't Pick A Winning Team" Dunster.....
Greenwich Time Web Site Viewers
Have A Dream That
Hearst Newspaper Head Honcho
Steven R. Swartz
Will Fire Greenwich Time Publisher
John "I Can't Pick A Winning Team" Dunster.....
Hearst Newspaper Editors At The Greenwich Time Have Not Been Able To Get Up A "Local" And "Hard Hitting" Editorial Since They Put Up This Editorial About Juarez, Mexico Three Days Ago....
The Advocate Staff
Posted: 01/16/2009 09:05:46 AM EST
Before you venture into Ciudad Juarez, brace yourself to hear Texans tell you that you're crazy.Visiting friends in neighboring El Paso a few days before Christmas, I was immediately warned, "Don't even think about going into Juarez."
Letters from Readers
Hamas' acts have produced the situation in Gaza
The Advocate Staff
Posted: 01/16/2009 09:06:57 AM EST
To the editor:
It's like "Alice In Wonderland"! Up is down; left is right. So who is to blame for the present Gaza situation? There are vocal demonstrators insisting Israel is to blame. Let's look at the situation realistically .....
COMMENT:
If the Greenwich Time is going to be steadfast in a mission to accelerate the reinvention of our local daily rag. Then publisher John Dunster and Managing Editor Bruce Hunter and The Greenwich Time Web Master are going to have to join in an effort to improve their so called "news website".
Publisher John Dunster needs to fell the urgency to bring the Greenwich Time into the digital age. Unfortunately, Dunster treats the Greenwich Time Web Site like a hobby that his editors and publishers can play with every once in a while.
As other Hearst Newspapers are rewriting newspaper history by aggressively having its local newspaper brands amplify their presence in the Internet marketplace, Dunster repeatedly fails in the local digital arena.
The Greenwich Time news web site is vitally important to the future, growth and survival of the newspaper.
If Publisher John Dunster can't serve the Greenwich Time Internet audience on its own terms, then Hearst Newspaper head Steven Schwarts needs to get a digitally savvy publisher who know the Greenwich markets inside and out.
It becoming very clear that Dunster is not the man to maximize this opportunity that the local Internet offers.
For example, Blogs, are a proven core news web site feature, that now make up the fastest growing segment of Hearst’s local online presence, But Greenwich Time Publisher John Dunster has not added one blog to the Green Kitty Litter Liner.
Together, the other Hearst Newspaper web sites publish more than 400 blogs, and they accounted for more than 8.5 million page views. Hearst Newspaper blog page views are up more than 60 percent, but clueless Dunster has not one blog incorporated in the Greenwich Time's pitiful web site.
Dunster has proven time and time again that he is not capable of being able to constantly adapt to the rapid changes in the new media landscape.
This year will most likely be a year of many turning points for our local newspaper and The Greenwich Time needs a publisher that can energize and maximize its new Internet audiences and advertisers.
This Is The Absolute Worst That I Have Ever Seen On The Greenwich Time's So-Called News "Web Site".
Is The Greenwich Time Just Going To Publish Press Releases Every Day Like The Greenwich Post ??????
The Greenwich Time Hasn't Put Up News Today, They Are Just Posting A Bunch Of Event Calendars That Have Headlines Designed To Make Greenwich Residents Think That A Real News Story Has Been Published......
No Hearst Newspaper Reporter Will Put A Byline On These Listings With Headlines That Are Designed To Fool Greenwich Time Web Site Visitors.....
......ONCE AGAIN THERE IS NO "LOCAL" AND HARD HITTING GREENWICH TIME EDITORIAL FOR EDITORIAL"S YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE CT POST......
This Red-Headed Greenwich Family Is Forced By Greenwich Time To Search For News At Local Greenwich Blogs !!!!!!!
The Greenwich Time Is Still Treating It's Online Readers Like Red Headed Step Children
Today Hearst Newspapers Have Not Given Greenwich Residents Any Links To Columnists, Editorials or Letters To The Editor.
The Online Readers Helped The Greenwich Time Get A Combined Print In And Online Circulation Increase Of 22%, But Greenwich Time Publisher John Dunster Treats These Young Affluent Tech Savvy Readers Like Garbage.
Green Kitty Litter Liner Insiders Say The Greenwich Time Print Edition Suffered Some Losses In The Last ABC Audit.
For Years, Ex-Greenwich Time Editors Like Joe Pisani And Jim Zebora Failed To Embrace The Digital Revolution.
Greenwich Citizen Blogger Chris Fountain Set A New Record Last Week By Getting 16,000 Unique Web Visitors In One Day
The Greenwich Time Sells No Where Near 16,000 Newspapers In One Day,
Yet The New Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter Is Making The Same Mistake As Joe Pisani - Ignoring The Power The Internet.
UPDATE:
9:56 AM On 01/22/08
When Greenwich Roundup Types;
The Greenwich Time Listens......
Opinion
Advocate Editorial
Posted: 01/22/2009 07:43:14 AM EST
Posted: 01/22/2009 07:43:14 AM EST
If majority Democrats in the state General Assembly aren't going to change state law to defer action on arbitrated state employee contracts, then they must take up-or-down votes on the 11 pacts that are expected to come before them during this session. Full Story
Where The Hell Is Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter And The "LOCAL" And "HARD HITTING" Editorial ???????
STRANGE BUT TRUE...
THE LETTER TO THE STAMFORD ADVOCATE EDITOR IS STILL UP AT THE ONLINE GREENWICH TIME LETTER"S TO THE EDITOR PAGE WHICH HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED FOR AT LEAST ONE WEEK
The Advocate Staff
Posted: 01/16/2009 09:06:57 AM EST
Hamas' acts have produced the situation in Gaza To the editor: It's like "Alice In Wonderland"! Up is down; left is right. Full Story
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