he will still be working just no office.. he will be working from home..

Good point ru, I was wondering that since I haven't seen the fire red minivan from hell there recently. Do you think he is sleeping in his van?

Bobo, what happened, did God turn the sign on your office cold?  BAHHH HA HA HA HA!

THATS RIGHT I REMEMBER WHEN SLAGER SPOKE TO GOD AND DURING A COLD WINTER NIGHT HE TOUCHED THE SIGN AND IT WAS WARM AND THAT WAS GODS WAY OF TELLING HIM TO STAY IN BUSINESS. WHAT A NUTJOB! IM GOING TO RENT OUT HIS OLD OFFICE JUST SO I CAN PROVE TO EVERYONE THAT THERE IS NO SHOWER AT THE OFFICE. OH GOD LET THE JOKES BEGIN... WHERE IS THE LIGHT GOING TO BE LEFT ON FOR LIZ TO COME BACK????? AT THE SLAGER ESTATE? HOW DOES THE PRESIDENT/VICEPRESIDENT/MEDIA MANAGER/PAPERBOY/ OF OBSERVERMEDIA NOT HAVE A FREAKIN OFFICE??????????

Someone get Bobo's landlord a gas mask and a Haz Mat suit, because he's going to have to fumigate the hell out of the joint just to get rid of the overpowering Ragman stench that's settled in over the years before anyone rents it again.

Maybe get a dumptruck to haul away all the bagel bags too.

BREAKING NEWS: RAGBOY CLOSES HIS OFFICE DURING A TOWN WIDE COMPUTER AUDIT OF TOWN OWNED COMPUTERS. PEOPLES LIVES WILL CHANGE JUST YOU WAIT........AND WAIT........AND WAIT...........

BREAKING NEWS:  Bobo owes a huge ass debt to his printer! 

Yeah, uh, when you can't pay the printer Bobo, that's usually curtains for a paper.

BAHHHH HA HAH AH HA!

Common, I don't know if you've heard, but he's a diabetic.  I can think of a dozen people he's ripped on that are diabetic too, but they don't play the diabetic card.  Bobo plays it on every hand.  "Waah, waah, I'm Bobo, I'm a diabetic, waah."

Plenty of other people are too, Bobo.  Not exactly like you have a rare illness.

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Physical health will be the  excuse; mental health will be the reason.

This guy is such a mess psychologically that I always feel a bit guilty when I beat up on him.

,,,And, this is a former  English teacher reminding you  of MacBeth (III,iii,13): "We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it."

Save the dancing in the streets for when he's really gone.....We've got work to do.

Hamatron5000 wrote:

This guy was paying $18,000 a year for an office for a paper that reads like it was typed by a second grader. (He'll save $1500 a month by closing it, he says).

Yeah, now I think we know why you're folding, Bobo.  What a dumbass.  $18,000 a year?  For your crap paper?  Are you really that stupid?

Can we take up a collection and rent it, put up a sign that says "Blogger HQ" just to piss him off?

It'd be nice.  We could put in a bar, foosball table, a pool table, a few couchs, big screen TV...it could be a power elite club house.

i got a couch and a futon to donate and some blue paint....

IM SURE THE PLACE HAS SHOWER FACILITIES

I feel a happy dance coming on!!!!

Joyce, however, made it clear that he had no intention of paying the $20,000-plus he owed to us. He filed repeated motions with the court. Finally, after it became evident we would not be receiving the money anytime soon, we agreed to reach a settlement with Joyce, in which he would pay about 65 percent of the total he owed to us.


MAYBE IF YOU DIDNT DEFAME AND LIE ABOUT INDIVIDUALS YOU WOULD HAVE NEVER GOTTEN SUED IN THE FIRST PLACE


But that has caused some real financial challenges at home. We’d fallen behind on some bills. We needed our share of the
money back to protect our home.


THE SIGN IS GONE AT YOUR OFFICE AND IT HAS TURNED COLD. THE LIGHT FOR LIZ HAS BEEN SWITCHED OFF


Unfortunately, The Observer fell a little behind on some bills as well. We expected to pay off some of those debts with the money from Joyce. Basically, the company lost nearly $8,000 in legal fees following the settlement. As much as that stings, I simply couldn’t lose my home.


PROBABLY HAD MORE TO DO TO THE FACT THAT YOU ARE ONE OF THE WORST BUSINESSBOY I HAVE EVER SEEN. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A PERSON TRY SOME MANY GIMMICKS TO GET INCOME.


This decision should put the Observer back in the black in a few months. When that happens I will consider finding a new office in Wareham.


DONT COUNT ON IT BOBO. ARE YOU STILL EVEN A LLC SINCE YOU HAVE NOT PAID YOUR STATE FILING FEES IN TWO YEARS?

I will be able to take better care of my health (less fast food, more time on the exercise bike). But most of all I will be able to get a little more sleep. That’s extremely important when you are diabetic.


I HAVE NEVER SEEN A PERSON USE THE DIABETIC CARD AS MUCH AS THIS GUY HAS. HERES A NEW GIMMICK FOR YOU WHY DONT YOU TRY SELLING PICTURES OF YOUR FAT ASS ON A STATIONARY BIKE LOL


Of course the hate bloggers will have a field day with this. They’ll see it as a sign that their boycott against the Observer is working. I can assure you, it’s not. In fact, we had several advertisers recently renew contracts with us.


YOU CAN ASSURE US? YOU ADVERTISING HAS BEEN CUT IN HALF SINCE DECEMBER. ANYONE TAKE A LOOK AT HIS ADVERTISERS A YEAR AGO AND LOOK NOW. NOBODY BELIEVES ANYTHING YOU SAY


But the recent cost-cutting measures have greatly reduced expenses. Of course, the continued support of our readers is always appreciated. If you’ve been thinking about an on-line subscription, now would be the perfect time (wink, wink).


ITS ALWAYS PATHETIC WHEN YOU BEG FOR MONEY BOBO. YOU DO THIS ALL THE TIME ITS LAUGHABLE. (WINK, WINK).


Operating a small community paper in this day and age will remain challenging (especially with the pressure some political partisans continue to put on our advertisers). But I plan to keep fighting for as long as possible because I love this community and I care deeply about its future. As always, thank you for your support. It means more to me than you will ever know.


IT ALSO DOESNT HELP THAT THROUGH THE YEARS YOU HAVE DEFAMED AND LIED ABOUT INDIVIDUALS AND WHEN YOU KEEP GOING THROUGH EVERY MEMBER IN WAREHAM CALLING THEM CROOKS AND ONLY CATERING TO A 100 OR SO NUTJOBS AND CONSIRPARY THEORIST YOU ARE GOING TO EVENTUALLY ALIENATE ANY READERS OF YOUR CRAP. IN SHORT BOBO THE SIGN HAS GROWN COLD. YOU ARE BACK TO WRITING "BOBBYS NEWS" FROM YOU HOME. SAD, PATHETIC LOSER

SO THIS IS HOW SLAGER WILL RUN HIS PAPER , 75 % OF HIS PAPER IS A OPINION PIECE AND REACTION TO THE HATE BLOGGERS THE REST WILL BE LEAKS FROM BREDA AND CO. AND HIS NEWS WILL COME FROM READING THE STANDARD TIMES AND WAREHAM COURIER AND PLAGERIZING HIS NEWS BY CUTING AND PASTING FROM THERE NEWSPAPERS WHICH HE IS ALREADY DOING AND LIVING OFF HIS WIFES PAY CHECK LIVING IN SECTION 8 HOUSEING AND PAYING 1500 A MONTH FOR THAT SHACK , HE MUST BE NUTS FOR PAYING THAT , BUT I DOUBT HE WAS PAYING THAT , RUMOR IS THAT HE HASNT BEEN PAYING HIS RENT FOR SOMETIME AND WAS  EVICTED FOR NON PAYMENT OF RENT.

Ham sums it up perfectly: who gives a shit?..imagine this scumbag writing "I love this community and care deeply about its future"!!..if that isn't an indication  of how full of shit this guy is, nothing is!!..as has been suggested on this site for quite some time, ignore and he will go away..its getting closer to becoming a reality, and now would be a perfect time (wink, wink)

Folks don't be fooled by his little pity party blog.

The fact that he mentioned the advertisers and the bloggers means that your efforts with business owners and advertisers are starting to have an affect.

Now is not the time to become complacent but to begin doubling your efforts.

His reports remotely from Halifax will only get more hate filled because he thrives on attention to survive.

Now he truly can claim no ties to Wareham, you can be sure he will keep hitting his political folks up for money and will ramp up his rhetoric to keep getting paid for favorable coverage.

This round goes to your efforts, but we still have several rounds to go.

He is hoping with his pitty party blog that you will end your efforts to end his lies,hate and deception.

Don't be fooled by him.

I agree, IHS said he lost half his advertising, but I think it's more than that.  To me it looks like between Christmas and now, he's lost about 2/3 of his advertising. 

In the Tri-Town Rag (now conveniently located on the back of the Wareham Rag) he jeers a Tri-Town store owner for giving his paper the boot.  The boycott is working.

We should rejoice at this latest news...BUT...we should also not get complacent.  Now is the time to give BOBO THE HOBO THE HEAVE-HO!!!

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SLAGER ADMITS HE IS NOT MAKEING ANY MONEY, HE IS LOOSEING MONEY HE SAYS HE LOVES WAREHAM THATS WHY HE  WANTS TO STAY IN WAREHAM , YHE REAL RESOAN IS BECAUSE  NO ONE IN THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY WILL HIRE HIM AND HE DOESNT WANT TO WORK AT CUMBERLAND FARMS , HE WANTS TO BE A BIG NEWSPAPER REPOTER , HE IS CONTENT WITH HIS WIFE SUPPORTING HIM  BUT ALL HE IS DOING IS RUNNING A FAILING  NEWSPAPER LIKE HIS  BUDDY RAN A FAILING PIZZA  JOINT STICKING FORKS IN TO KIDS HANDS WHO CAME INTO HIS PIZZA JOINT , 2 PAYTHETIC ASS HOLES.

Does anyone know what businesses in Marion or Mattapoisett carry the rag? I do a lot of shopping in both places. If any of the businesses I patronize are carrying the rag I would be more than happy to pay them a visit. Does any place in either Marion or Mattapoisett still give the rag out for free?

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THE COMMON THEME BETWEEN SLAGER / PEZZOLI / SWEET BRUCIE / BRENDA IS THAT THEY ALL HAVE TERRIBLE FINANCIAL TROUBLES DUE TO THEIR INCOMPENTANCE AND NOT UNDERSTANDING HOW BUSINESSES ARE RUN. MOST OF THE BOS DO NOT WORK. BUT ALL OF THEM HAVE NO TROUBLE TELLING YOU AND ME HOW THINGS SHOULD BE RUN. THEY CANT RUN THEIR FINANCIAL HOUSEHOLDS YET THEY WANT TO RUN THE TOWN OF WAREHAMS. THE SIGN IS COLD AND ITS TIME TO PACK IT IN SLAGER

This is just a step in Taking Back Wareham. The mouthpiece will eventually be silenced, but for now, he has become a smaller distraction. Think of all the people that read his paper and commented on his site. He has lead them to believe "the final piece" is coming, and the audit will be "life changing" for some people. Now, as the days turned to months, we know the audit is just another expensive blunder by the Selectmen. Slager has earned his dismissal from the town of Wareham, so let's focus on the Selectmen and Town Moderator. They have lost their mouthpiece, but we all know they are still the root problem.

Goodbye cub reporter!

I've questioned all along why anyone would advertise with him!!..do they honestly think people are reading his garbage??..I spoke with a person the other day who told me she was interviewed by him..not only was it the worst ever, she claims he twisted her words to the point that she had to demand a retraction!!..I will not read the Rag nor will I visit the website..I will take joy though, in counting the number of papers not purchased at the different locations I see it at..

I am wondering, now that the other site is closing, if the theme should be "SAVE WAREHAM!" as opposed to TAKE BACK WAREHAM.
You will be the ONLY political activist force that will exist in Wareham.Perhaps the wording of save versus take back is more positive?
Just asking.
I'm still buying t-shirts no matter what they say!

Robert Slager and Rubert Murdoch may be alike, and you may say that in more ways than this but let's stick to the issue of making money by charging for online editions.

Murdoch thinks in the future most Internet news websites will be charging a fee. I disagree. I don't think he understands how many news websites the typical "news junkie" reads. He may be using the success of shifting the Wall Street Journal to a fee based site, but that for obvious reasons is hardly representative of the typical news website.

In 2007 Murdoch's company bought Ottoway News which owns, among other papers, The Standard Times and The Cape Cod Times. By the end of the year he plans to have all of the online versions of his 175 papers charge a fee.

But Murdoch only has to look at the history of Slate and Salon to see if this is a good idea. If I remember correctly, Slate started off free, started charging, ran into competition from the similar Salon and went back to being free. Now both are making it as free websites.

He can also look at the online New York Times which for a period charged for certain content like the OpEd section and archives, and then went back to a totally free website.

Then he can look at the spectacular success of the Huffington Post which has always been free.

All of these free websites support themselves through advertising. The more people that read them the more they can charge for ads and the more new advertisers they can attract.

Locally a paper like The Enterprise, The Courier or The Wareham Observer might be able to earn more by charging for their Internet versions, especially if they are the only news source in town. But on the other hand if they really push their online advertising to the limits with good advertiser friendly page design and by making sure every advertiser has a link to a homepage it is quite possible they could make even more by staying free.

If local papers like Robert Slager's start charging for their online editions they open the door for entrepreneurs to start new non-print news free websites to compete with them.

While it isn't real journalism these sites wouldn't even need original stories since it is still legal to summarize a story from another source in your own words, properly attribute it, and use very short quotes. This website could actually become the chief competition to The Observer and if handled well actually make a little money.

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taken from the one & only James Brown....

Whoa! I feel good. I knew that we would.
I feel good. I knew that we would.
So good, so good, Bobo's blue!

Whoa! I feel nice, to move out that lice.
I feel nice, to move out that vice.
So nice, So nice, Bobo's thru!

when I read his psychobabble
its clear that he is always wrong.
and when I pass his website
his crap can't do me no harm

Whoa! I feel good, I knew that we would, now
I feel good, I knew that we would
So good, so good, Bobo's blue
So good, so good, Bobo"s thru
So good, so good, Bobo's screwed!

HEY!!!

Nooo!  Have times gotten so tough that he's selling the barracuda?!!?!  What will he wear in August now?!

Now that he's said that he owes a big debt to his printer, I don't know if I can pick up a free rag.  If he owes money, then those rags are ill-gotten rags.  Delinquent rags.  Deadbeat rags.  They're hot rags!  I wouldn't be able to read it, I'd just think of his poor printer, poor guy probably going into the poorhouse waiting for Ragman's overdue payments to come in.

Sorry Bobo, but we can't read hot rags.  Pay your printer so the public isn't stuck with ill-gotten rags.

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I stopped into 7-11 tonight I did not realize they carry his paper.

Not sure if these are the alleged stolen copies from the COA but there was a huge stack still there.

Sorry but Dolores needed a roll of paper towels. Let's see if we can talk with the Manager during the day. I did ask for the Manager but they were not there.

Since they are not selling anyway this one should be easy.

We know he has 4 or 5 people buying his paper! Maybe if he just printed 10 copies on his home computer, he would cover the entire demand for his paper?

Bobo, I know I've made some jokes, but I thought about it over the weekend, and I just want to say, "BAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA!"

Hamatron, dontcha know he's an award winning journalist, this was on the wall of his office before he decamped for Halifax:


Photo by me, no kidding...

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It's amazing to me the lengths to which Robert Slager will go to twist and spin ANYTHING to benefit himself. It's painfully obvious to anyone with a modicum of business acumen that his business is a sinking ship. He can't afford to hire any new writers (Andrea Smith's inexplicable return can only mean she's being paid with either free McDonald's gift certificates or bags of yarn), he claims that "combining" the Tri-Town and Wareham Observers was an effort to better cover the area (right), and now closing his local office space is a way to "save money." What? Bob, seriously, just sit back and take the time to re-read some of the tripe you bang into a keyboard everyday. Objectively speaking, does ANY of it make any sense to you? I'm just waiting for the next logical progressions ... well, we had to stop printing the newspaper, so in an effort to better serve Wareham I'm now going to print individual copies and staple them together here in my "home office" and hand them out on the street corner ... or, since print media is dead, I'm going to continue my lunatic rantings online but only on Thursday and Friday between 9:00 and 9:15 when I can get free access. Bob, give it up. It's over. No one here is out to persecute you. You've done more than enough to marginalize yourself as a credible "newsman." You're a joke. A sad, pathetic, sick joke. And you need help. Take what little shred of decency you have left and stay in Halifax. Here's an idea: why don't you go get a "real job"? Stop playing Mr. Small-Town Editor and actually do something productive for your wife and kids.

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