Managers and executives have personal issues that bubble to surface. One direct manager was dating and sleeping with other coworkers, which led to disruption of operations while other employees were left confused.
Former president of Hearst Newspapers until about 2017 (now EVP and COO of Hearst Corporate as of 2019), had petuitary adenoma (as a former med school student, I spotted this instantly), and would often feel slighted and personally offended if low-level employees left for other companies, and would announce public black lists of those employees. He drove the division revenue down and still was promoted to corporate level. He also grabbed some employees by the arm while walking past them, often citing he forgot to ask them for status updates, and justified grabbing at them. He also has hair plugs.
Divisional expansion was often predicated on emotions of executives and not actual empirical data to justify risks, based on potential reward.
Heavy nepotism: new round of vice presidential hires are literally brothers or sons-in-law of SVPs and presidents.
The same former president of the newspaper division openly discouraged internal transfers, both within the division and other divisions, hence only recourse is to leave company. He also did not permit substantial raises or promotions to entry, associate, or mid-level employees.
It is these cons that leave little to the imagination as to why newspapers and digital newspapers are going extinct. It is because of these old, stogy dinosaurs who desperately need the metaphorical meteorite to slam them in their faces and vaporize them.
