Posted on 03/15/2009 6:13:44 AM PDT by abb
As if things have not been ugly enough at Kansas City's leading newspaper in the past, the word now is that on Monday (and possibly Tuesday) the latest newsroom layoffs at the Kansas City Star will be greater than the three previous news layoffs---combined. The word is there have been very heated arguments in the newsroom involving Managing Editor Steve Shirk over who which journalists will be let go and which ones will be retained. One source close to the situation reports about 67 people will be affected in the newsroom, which will impact the news product even more dramatically than previous cutbacks. There is even talk of the local and business sections being eliminated and incorporated into the "A" section. In addition, a number of people will have their hours cut to 32, including some columnists. Two columnists already mentioned with reduced hours (and pay) include Mike Hendricks and Steve Penn. "I don't think that the term 'newsroom armegeddon' is too strong of a term," said a source close to the situation. The source pointed out that the Star charging customers 25 cents for its TV guide (link) and fining carriers $5 for missed deliveries are just two indications of how grim things really are on Grand Blvd. "...those things are bad, but having no staff to put together a paper is even worse. The reporters working there will need months of therapy when all of this is over."
ping
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003951530
‘SF Chron’ Union Agrees to Layoffs, Other Cuts
Perhaps they should have hired a token conservative writer or two along the way.
I wonder if Osama Obama created some shovel-ready jobs for these soon-to-be unemployed reporters in his Porkulus.
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This line struck me. How many others today, going through layoffs or downright terminations, are going through therapy? Typical lib reaction...
The paper where a young Hemingway honed his spare and direct writing style. Now a weary, intellectually vacuous liberal rag like the rest of them, in its death throes.
Give me a break!
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=428819dc-f4bf-4db3-a6e8-1b601c8fe273
The New Republic
Write Now by Mark I. Pinsky
Why Barack Obama should resurrect the Federal Writers Project and bail out laid-off journalists.
Post Date Monday, December 08, 2008
GMTA
He's a budding young totalitarian. You never know.
http://northwesthistory.blogspot.com/2009/01/call-for-new-federal-writers-project.html
A Call for a New Federal Writer’s Project
Given their writing and political bias, I'd say they've needed therapy for a number if years. One less DNC propagandist newspaper to ignore...
The Red Star will be sorely missed by a few liberals.
Ahhh, the smell of liberals being fired.
Begin closing journalism schools, and the process will start to reach its logical and beneficial outcome. Those are college cesspools.
The Red Star has been a joke for years. I hope they fold - they deserve it.
Western nations are in the grip of a plague that is far more deadly than the Black Plague of ages past. This plague is known by the Orwellian misnomer “Liberalism”, which actually means its opposite, as in “war is peace”, “freedom is slavery”, “love is hate”. One characteristic of this disease is an appalling inability to learn from experience.
For the liberal news guys who will be looking for work, the Army and Marines are still hiring.
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