Blind box ads and other Texas press tidbits

If you're running a blind-box ad, given the state of today's newspaper world, isn't that itself a big old red flag? It is to me, and I'm guessing it's for my old stomping grounds in Central Texas. Even if not, I wouldn't do it. I don't do blind box ads outside the papers biz; I sure as hell wouldn't do it inside.

I also notice that David Lewis still hasn't sold Pilot Point and is still listed his own self as editor as well as publisher.

I also see the Seguin paper is at five days a week. When did that cut from six, and wasn't it once seven?

The Dallas Morning News nears Gomorrah

It's whacked another 40-plus people as ad sales continue to slip. (A 7.5 percent adhole on Christmas Eve, per my tracking of them, is horrendous.)

That's not the worst.

Giving 40 top execs $1.2 million in bonuses for a good financial management job achieved in part by whacking people?

THAT is the worst.