The state's biggest companies and highest paid CEOs

The former is listed by the Arizona Republic this a.m.

The trouble is that the top fifty companies are dispensed by the paper in no fewer than 25 groups of two, requiring some 24 additional clicks to see them all.

And since this is the miserable web site of the Arizona Republic, you can be assured that each click takes from between six and ten seconds to give you a new page, and that, during that time, the page will, annoyingly, re-situate itself a few times.

It’s an imensely pleasureable reading experience!

You’d think that by hitting print you might get a coherent list to read. Look how this page resolves itself:

Note how that instead of the full list, it just gives you the two entries on that page, and that it doesn’t even do that right. You can also see that the intro paragraph from the beginning of the story is repeated on each printed page.

If, laboriously, you print the whole thing out, you’d have those literary pearls of wisdom 25 times.

Finally, if you look closely on the bottom right-hand corner of the print page, you can see this legend: “Print powered by FormatDynamics”!

In other words, the Republic, like so many other media outfits, is actually paying some other company do to a crummy job formatting its print pages.

Exactly the sort of thing a media company should outsource.

Anyway, if you’re interested in how the state’s execs are doing, The PBJ is on the case tracking executive pay. It’s list of recent dispatches from company reports is here.