Posted on 05/16/2020 4:12:10 AM PDT by kevcol
Everybody’s painfully aware that the economy has been taking a huge hit the last couple of months because of lockdowns related to the coronavirus outbreak. But now the layoff wave is starting to crash across the bow of the media, and it’s causing some alarms to go off:
Over just three days, Condé Nast, Quartz and VICE gutted their newsrooms with layoffs. This is a historically bad year for digital and local journalism.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...
I am not familiar with any of these pubications but I don’t see anything that looks conservative on the list.
This shut down hurts the poor and middle class the most.
The country is hurting as the politicians play politics. They are gambling with our lives.
*sob*
“We’re all in this together”....BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Hahahahahahahahaha... snort ... Hahahahahahahahaha... snort ... Hahahahahahahahaha... snort ... (repeat ad infinitum)
How’s this trend affecting the Washington Times, which I assume is still a friend of Freepers?
Love it.
That should slow down the fake news and lies.
The power of a lack of advertising dollars, posing consequences to the producers driving the current narrative.
Presstitution should be considered Non Essential anyway, the Job of a Presstitute requires them to go out in Public and engage with different people continuously, that is a DANGER TO THE PUBLIC and they should ALL be Quarantined for the Safety of the Public!!!
But, but, but we’re essential. Without us who will tell the masses to stay home?
AD has turned from being a decent design publication to “let’s see how PC and diverse we can be, no matter how ugly it is.”
It’s like The Emperor’s New Clothes, if it’s in AD it must be cool, right?
Screw them.
Replace “media outlets” with “federal agencies” and the pandemic would end by Memorial Day.
They fear mongered us into this mess to hurt Trump now they can suck it up.
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