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There is a great Mel Brooks satire about the French Revolution. Count de Monet (pronounced Count da Money) rushes up to King Louis and screams, "Your majesty, your majesty, the peasants are revolting!!" Replies Louis, "That's right. They stink on ice." In this context, seldom have I heard more comment about a Copley Press story than I have heard about a Burl Stiff society column Sunday (June 8). The dateline was Cannes, France. Stiff effervesced about "tuxedos and champagne in the afternoon" and "glamorous parties on gorgeous yachts till dawn's early light." Copley Publisher "David Copley brought his yacht, Happy Days, to Cannes for this year's [film] festival." He brought some La Jolla Beautiful People with him, and mixed with the likes of Lady Monika Bacardi of Monaco. Meanwhile, back in San Diego, the Union-Tribune was raising the newsstand price to 75 cents after cutting back sharply on editorial content and quality. There were extensive employee buyouts in 2006 and 2007 and layoffs in 2008. Employees expect bureaus to be closed and more layoffs this summer. Those running SignOnSanDiego have gone to the guillotine, but the product has shown no improvement. The Internet radio experiment bombed. The company has dumped Illinois and Ohio papers and peeled off other assets, leaving only the U-T and the tiny Borrego Sun. Management admits that revenue and profits are down sharply. But there is one thing you can say about Stiff's Cannes story: employees and ex-employees almost never read the Beautiful People columns. This one got a lot of readership. And comment.
There is a great Mel Brooks satire about the French Revolution. Count de Monet (pronounced Count da Money) rushes up to King Louis and screams, "Your majesty, your majesty, the peasants are revolting!!" Replies Louis, "That's right. They stink on ice." In this context, seldom have I heard more comment about a Copley Press story than I have heard about a Burl Stiff society column Sunday (June 8). The dateline was Cannes, France. Stiff effervesced about "tuxedos and champagne in the afternoon" and "glamorous parties on gorgeous yachts till dawn's early light." Copley Publisher "David Copley brought his yacht, Happy Days, to Cannes for this year's [film] festival." He brought some La Jolla Beautiful People with him, and mixed with the likes of Lady Monika Bacardi of Monaco. Meanwhile, back in San Diego, the Union-Tribune was raising the newsstand price to 75 cents after cutting back sharply on editorial content and quality. There were extensive employee buyouts in 2006 and 2007 and layoffs in 2008. Employees expect bureaus to be closed and more layoffs this summer. Those running SignOnSanDiego have gone to the guillotine, but the product has shown no improvement. The Internet radio experiment bombed. The company has dumped Illinois and Ohio papers and peeled off other assets, leaving only the U-T and the tiny Borrego Sun. Management admits that revenue and profits are down sharply. But there is one thing you can say about Stiff's Cannes story: employees and ex-employees almost never read the Beautiful People columns. This one got a lot of readership. And comment.