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Post by Administrator on Apr 30, 2007 15:35:45 GMT -5
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Post by readhere on Jun 4, 2007 21:38:55 GMT -5
Someone said the Pickens Sentinel and the Easley Progress is being sold again and they are starting a new newspaper. Do any one know this to be true?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2007 10:22:04 GMT -5
I was on a cruise from Saturday to Thursday, so I was out of touch with people for days. I promised my wife, I won’t get back into this until Monday, but I had to comment on this.
I called the Pickens Sentinel and I was told the following. Most all of the staff from the Pickens Sentinel left the newspaper to start their own newspaper – the Pickens County Courier.
I don’t have any thoughts on this, only feelings. I’m sad about it. No matter how you look at it, local newspapers are in relatively weak position.
The Greenville News dominates Greenville County and has a strong hold in Pickens County. The Greenville News’ circulation in Pickens County is greater than the Progress and Sentinel combined. The Anderson Independent dominates Anderson County and is getting a strong hold in southern Pickens. The Seneca Journal I suspect dominates Oconee County and it has Clemson, here in Pickens County.
When the Progress and Sentinel joined forces, it strengthened the position of our local newspapers, and gave them an opportunity to compete with the encroaching Greenville, Anderson and Oconee newspapers.
My feeling is these changes will weaken the 125-year old Sentinel and the 105 year old Progress greatly, and it is hard to believe a new local newspaper will be very strong enough to stop the advances of the Greenville, Anderson and Oconee newspapers. It is not good for our local newspapers and this makes me sad.
What do you think?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2007 13:44:54 GMT -5
There is something to be said for having a local newspaper that is owned locally, like the Pickens County Courier. It must have been very frustrating for the employees to be owned by and answer to people who do not know the county and now aren't even in SC.
As a former market analyst, the question is, is the newspaper market in Pickens County large enough for another newspaper? I have my doubts, given recent history.
The Daily Journal Messenger used to have the Upstate Weekly, and that didn't make it. The Easley Progress used to have the Homemaker and that didn't last.
Also, all the papers are becoming local, because 24 hour TV News has a monopoly on National and World news. That was the reason the Greenville News shifted its focus to local news.
Not only has a new newspaper -- the Pickens County Courier -- entered the local news market, but the Greenville News has placed its focus on the local news market.
It is getting crowded in the Pickens County local news market.
To grow any of these local newspapers, likely, one will have to take subscribers from other newspapers. That's tough to do, because those other newspapers are working to hold their subscribers. That direct competition is very difficult, and makes buying/ starting a newspaper in Pickens County a fair investment.
To make it a good economic investment, you'll have to beat the competition and you can only do that by managing the business very well.
What do you think?
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Post by franklin on Jul 24, 2010 20:54:14 GMT -5
I bought an IWANA today. The clerk said it was going out of business. Too bad. Craigslist.com.
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Post by George Who on Jul 25, 2010 12:10:35 GMT -5
I picked up an IWANNA for free on Saturday. They are free now.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2010 16:12:21 GMT -5
Iwanna is not going out of business. ashevilleiwanna.wordpress.com/It closed one of its printing facilities, and laid off 12 employees. They are cutting costs. Print costs are going up and revenue down, so that is putting a squeeze on most all print media. I noticed today the Iwanna is only two sections now (it used to be 4) and really doesn't have a lot of classified ads in it any more. You are right, craigslist must be taking a lot of their classifieds. I admit, I've put most of what I sell on craiglist lately. I was reading these comments above from 2007, and they proved to be prophetic in many ways. Actually, looking back, I don't think the Greenville News has grown in its dominance of Pickens County. Actually, I think adding the extra newspaper (The Pickens County Courier) weakened the influence of all papers. The major advantage the Greenville News gained the last 2 years over all the local papers was with its website that used to get a ga-zillion hits. My guess is they never earned much revenue from that, and the free news on their website was killing their print circulation, so they couldn't take advantage of their #1 website. The AI could never get it together in southern Pickens County. I suspect at some point one papers will go away (likely Pickens County News) and that should help the financial situation of the remaining papers. Craiglist has a lot of scamers, so I suspect the Iwanna (with its free ads and zero purchase price) will remain
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2010 12:55:35 GMT -5
The iwanna I bought cost one dollar and twenty-five cents. It is not free in Pickens.
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Post by diamonddave on Apr 4, 2011 18:52:04 GMT -5
I would like to know if this is true. I heard that Phillips Staffing was now sending workers to what is now TTI, which was once Singer, Ryobi, & OWT. But before they send folks out on any job, they have them go to the Goodwill store in Powdersville and pay $15.00 up front for a SLED catch background check. Has anybody out there come face to face with this, or know of anybody else that has, whether or not Phillips Staffing sent them on a job? Be it known that this is a violation of a Federal law, and if anyone paid $15.00 & didn't get work, fraud has been commited, & the fact that telephone & internet were used in the process make this prosecutable under the Federal wire fraud statute. Both mail fraud & wire fraud are Federal offenses, whether or not it crosses state lines. You would think that something like this would be in the mainstream news media if it were true, but under certain circumstances, sometimes things like this get ignored. Again, does anybody that checks this site know anything about this?
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Post by samsonite on Apr 4, 2011 19:33:48 GMT -5
us put it this way there is no shame in the truth and the truth is what is the truth is what is the truth . true
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Post by diamonddave on Apr 5, 2011 16:10:45 GMT -5
The truth here is that Goodwill is supposedly a non-profit organization, and as a non-profit, pays $8.00 for a SLED report on an individual. This would mean that they earn $7.00 for each $15.00 SLED report that they run. Also, the truth here is that you or I as an individual, or a for-profit operation, such as Phillips Staffing, would have to pay $25.00 for a SLED catch report. And also, the truth here is that SLED is at the end of this scheme's money trail, and that a Federal law prohibits employers from compelling applicants to pay upfront fees for drug tests, background checks, and medical records. And finally, the truth here is that this scheme is intended to get Phillips Staffing out of having to pay the initial cost of background checks, and place that burden on the applicants, nearly all of which are long-term unemployed. At a time when there are at least 6 applicants per available job, you don't have to be a Rhodes scholar to figure that alot of these folks have payed their $15.00 for nothing, at a time that they can least afford it. The fact that along with a staffing agency like Phillips, a supposedly charitable organization like Goodwill and a law enforcement agency like SLED are running a job scam that profiteers off of those that have become unemployed due to no fault of their own, well, could there be any shame in that truth? YOU TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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