Newspaper Conference: Glimmers of Hope or Night of the Living Dead?
My shoeshine guy is 84. He says we’ll get through this. I believe him.
Robert Ivan, tweeting, Haiku style, from the Newspaper Association of America’s mediaXchange conference
LAS VEGAS — It’s so quiet on the casino floors here that you can hear a — well, all right, it’s not that quiet. But with visitors and gaming revenue down sharply, this party town has a really bad hangover. The dealers at the blackjack table stand forlornly, no players to employ them. Hotel room rates are marked down. (But the food court still charges $11 for a cheeseburger and potato chips, so it’s good to know some things haven’t changed.)
Were it not for the recession, the lush setting of the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino might seem an incongruous setting for a meeting of newspaper executives. But the stillness of the casino floor mirrors the mood at the Newspaper Association of America’s inaugural mediaXchange conference.
