AJC (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) to cut 30 percent of news staff (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | March 25, 2009 | Staff

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Wednesday good news!

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[RetiredArmy]

Aaaaaannnnnnnnnnddddddd, another one bites the dust, aha, and another one bites the dust!!!! Yea!!!!!

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http://www.poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13870
Journal-Constitution memo on latest cuts

[GeronL]

90 cut from news staff?? wow.

Thats a big cut at one time. good news.

[ken5050]

Is Cynthia Tucker on the list?? Please let it be so..

[ClearCase_guy]

They (or any struggling newspaper) could become a nationally significant paper overnight by taking a hard-right, anti-Administration stance.

But they prefer to slouch off to bankruptcy.

[gussiefinknottle]

And Jay Bookman.

[Drango]

The 4th estate is a fifth column.

[Grampa Dave]

Good news re the flushing down of bad stuff at the Atlanta Urinal.

[gatorhead]

Don’t forget Luckovich

[Moose4]

They were delivering all the way to Houston County? That’s 25 miles *south* of Macon and over 110 miles from downtown Atlanta. I know because we drive down there twice a year. No wonder they weren’t making any money at it, they were directly competing with whatever passes for a fishwrap out of Macon, along with whatever local small-town papers they have.

I feel for any innocent non-political victims of layoffs like this, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t feel a good bit of schadenfreude toward watching the Urinal-Constipation circle the drain. You guys at the AUC might be surprised what would happen if you’d quit targeting your paper’s editorial stance toward the gays in Virginia Highlands and the race pimps at the State Capitol and actually started mirroring the views of the majority of your readers.

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[GeorgiaDawg32]

are you kidding?? do you think they want charges of racism to hit them??

[Albion Wilde]

I nominate the AJC's racist columnist Cynthia Tucker for "outplacement".

[1010RD]

Not if that bailout package passes.

Can Democrats survive without media control?

They need phantom voters, indoctrination centers (schools and colleges, and a liberal media to keep up their reign of error.

[Albion Wilde]

I nominate the AJC's racist columnist Cynthia Tucker for "outplacement".

You beat me to it. Great minds think alike.

[WarEagle]

Cynthia is editorial page editor, and not a part of the news staff. No mention of reductions there, just in the news staff and eliminating distribution to outlying counties.

107 folks will no longer have their newspaper routes.

[Eagle50AE]

>>> Wednesday good news! <<<

GREAT!! I quit reading when Reagan took office.. never since then.. and it used to be 2 editions, and combined on Sunday..

[April Lexington]

One would think that somewhere in the United States some newspaper that is owned by shareholders would, at least, try to beat the collapse by turning conservative and anti-liberal government. Look what it did for AM radio when they adopted Right Wing Talk. Isn;t there even one newspaper more interested in cash flow and profit than being the mouth of the Left? Not even one??? Sounds like Abraham's plea to G-d regarding Sodom & Gemorrah! “Not even one?” Poof!