“This service turns the Yellow Pages on its head,” said Matthew Haggerty, mWIRE project manager for Scranton-based Times-Shamrock. “Here, all you have to do is make one phone call and let the merchants compete for your business.”
Jesus. And people wonder why the Lynetts have a bad journalism reputation with some people.
Here´s the sidebar to this fine business journalism:
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Let me tell you, thats exactly wqhat i want to do.
Call, wait and then buy something without seeing it.
I think the way it work is:
You call and tellt hem what you want. You're supposed to know what it is.
They call back with merchants who are willing to sell for the price YOU quote.
Seems like a pretty good service to me.
It most definitely is a good service. Papers that use a similar system have made money on it. Most papers will be doing this soon. That company will announce several partnerships with major newspaper companies in the future. The TL gets beat again, but this time the losses could be financial and not to the ego.
Haggerty's mother is a Lynett. you don't think that had anything to do with the puff piece do you?
also, the ME of the TT, Banana Boat Larry, would dress down any other reporter or editor who would allow such a report to appear. they're nothing by hypocrits.
I´ll be interested to try this service out in practice. But I´ve got to be honest with you, if I want, say, a big-screen TV, I´m going to go to Circuit City or Best Buy and not play phone-tag games where I call some call center and ´bid´ a low price or something. Hokey.
Haggerty was operating out of an office in the Times Tribune newsroom while he worked on this venture. And no matter what his last name is, he's a "Lynett."
I've never seen a newspaper that uses its newshole to promote the owners' business interests like the Times Tribune. That's why the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the TL owners is so hypocritical.
Anyway, the phone-tag aspect of this sounds pretty clunky. Couldn't you register and get bids online instead? I don't want to be getting phone calls at home from Louie DeNaples.
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