Is the N&O Too Sensitive?
A reader and N&O critic says the N&O posted two different quotes on its website after Keith Hempstead of
Last Thursday afternoon, Executive Editor John Drescher said on the site:
“We’ve had some really good papers recently, and they’re worth more than the 36 cents a day that Mr. Hempstead is paying us. In fact, he owes me money. So, when he gets a lawyer, he can work with my lawyer and figure out how much he’s going to pay me for the excellent coverage he’s been getting recently.”
In Friday’s paper, here is what the N&O said, according to my reader:
“We’ve had some really good papers recently, and they’re worth more than the 36 cents a day that Mr. Hempstead is paying us,” Drescher said. Said N&O Publisher Orage Quarles: “I’m surprised Mr. Hempstead didn’t simply ask for a refund. That’s usually what happens when people are not happy with the service.”
Memo to the N&O: Don’t overreact.
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Is the N&O Too Sensitive?
A reader and N&O critic says the N&O posted two different quotes on its website after Keith Hempstead of
Last Thursday afternoon, Executive Editor John Drescher said on the site:
“We’ve had some really good papers recently, and they’re worth more than the 36 cents a day that Mr. Hempstead is paying us. In fact, he owes me money. So, when he gets a lawyer, he can work with my lawyer and figure out how much he’s going to pay me for the excellent coverage he’s been getting recently.”
In Friday’s paper, here is what the N&O said, according to my reader:
“We’ve had some really good papers recently, and they’re worth more than the 36 cents a day that Mr. Hempstead is paying us,” Drescher said. Said N&O Publisher Orage Quarles: “I’m surprised Mr. Hempstead didn’t simply ask for a refund. That’s usually what happens when people are not happy with the service.”
Memo to the N&O: Don’t overreact.
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