Cutting costs is a nice phrase to camo the slicing, hacking and cutting of the union lefties getting a paycheck from these Dinosaur Fishwraps.
Fishwrap Owners/Execs firing/sacrificing employees is becoming a new national sport and past time.
Once the dinosaur fishwrap owners/execs get used to the taste of the blood of their fired employees. Future firings will be easier and will serve as punishment, whenever bad results are reported.
The surviving execs/high priests and priestesses will become blood thirsty and will gladly become Aztec priests in their dealings with their underlings. They will use human sacrifices/firings to appease the evil Gods, the owners. Top management knows that there is no place for them to run to for a big paycheck. So they will gladly sacrifice those under them to stay employed until they too are sacrificed.
Now every employee is just one personality conflict away from being sacrificed to the Fishwrap Gods, er, fired.