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MediaNews to outsource proofreading to India
Halfway to Concord ^ | 11/12/6 | Bill Gram-Reefer

Posted on 11/12/2006 9:48:49 AM PST by SmithL

The swirling accelerates around the drain as MediaNews announced it has eliminated 20 more jobs from its Bay Area Newspapers. This round of cuts includes advertising production and proofreading jobs from the Contra Costa Times. Blaming a “sudden and steep decline in home sales,” George Avalos reports that staff was told such work will be outsourced to Express KCS, “a leading provider of offshore design and prepress…” services.

Can you imagine the conversation when the folks at Fitzpatrick Chevrolet have to call Sarosh in Bangalore to correct a misprint in some Hummer’s sale price? Why stop with the ads? Maybe the Times could outsource its editorial board as well. Or maybe it already has?

(Excerpt) Read more at halfwaytoconcord.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: legacymedia; medianews; outsourcing
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To: devolve

Yes, we have a lot of them running convenience stores here and they are friendly and polite. I imagine the accents might throw some people off and perhaps the connections are not always good.


21 posted on 11/12/2006 9:02:32 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch


They are good legal immigrants

Out-Sourcing Mo Dowd's editing to India would be a big plus


22 posted on 11/12/2006 9:19:31 PM PST by devolve ( _note_the_Green/Libertarian_candidates?)
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To: devolve

Maybe they could even rearrange the wording, lol.


23 posted on 11/12/2006 9:23:09 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch


And put a veil over face in the photo


24 posted on 11/12/2006 9:27:07 PM PST by devolve ( _note_the_Green/Libertarian_candidates?)
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To: SmithL

Holy cow...I thought this was from ScrappleFace, IowaHawk, or the Onion or something.


25 posted on 11/12/2006 9:29:33 PM PST by L.N. Smithee (Magnificent? NO. Bastard? YES!)
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To: devolve

LOL, she would love that!!

No, she would hate that but we would love it.

Mo-No-Mo


26 posted on 11/12/2006 9:30:26 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: devolve

I favor outsourcing Mo Dowd to Teheran or Pakistan in Taliban territory. Let her b*tch about how women are treated THERE and how the government is so bad....


27 posted on 11/15/2006 3:57:30 AM PST by Cronos ("Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmed, CAIR)
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