Richmond Times-Dispatch eliminates 31 open positions and lays off 59 employees

Richmond Times-Disptach ^

[gracesdad]

The Richmond Times-Dispatch eliminated 31 open positions and laid off 59 employees today. Affected departments include Production, Circulation, Marketing, Business, Advertising, Editorial, News, Operations, Facilities, Prepress Design Services and Targeted Solutions, a new product development group.

[gracesdad]

The most conservative paper in Virginia (other than the Washington Times, which isn't really a Virginia paper). It's not just the liberal papers hurting.

[earlJam]

Geez. No wonder they are hurting.

59 employees doing 31 jobs.

:)

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

It's creative destruction. There's nothing they can do about it. The next generation will have to go to a museum to see a newspaper.

[truthguy]

This is a shame. I once lived in the area and use to read this newspaper. It was a Conservative, BUT FAIR newspaper. It covered the news of the area fairly well as far as I was concerned. It had both conservative and liberal columnists on the editorial page.

Ever notice that the conservative newspapers always give liberals a fair break but usually the liberal newspapers don't reciprocate.

[jaz.357]

The T-D is a good newspaper. I went from daily to Sunday only. The “NEWS” is on line @ bed time the night before it is in the driveway @ 6 am. What can you do? I pay big $$ for the Internet and use it WAY more then the paper.

[P8riot]

They have taken a decidedly liberal slant lately, but for the most part the RTD is mostly conservative. I dropped them years ago because I hardly had time to read the paper, and didn’t have any use for it afterward.

[StoneWallJack]

I don't know what you guys have been reading but the RTD is everything but conservative these days. Jeff Shapiro and his obnoxious pack of liberal attack dogs write the political articles for the paper. They disgrace the name and pages of a formerly outstanding newspaper.

The paper can no longer be called conservative or balanced. Their readership is plummeting for that reason and that reason alone.

[Montanabound]

The same thing happened to the Daily Oklahoman when the owner/publisher died. Now we get all the stories from AP and editorials from the Washington Compost Writers Group. I cancelled a few months ago.

[Balding_Eagle]

It was a Conservative, BUT FAIR newspaper

Could it be otherwise and still be a conservative paper?

The Liberal but fair person (or paper) is the oddity. Greta comes to mind.

[truthguy]

I'm not surprised that liberals have taken over the RTD. I use to read the RTD 25-30 years ago. At that time it WAS a good newspaper. What it's been like since I don't know so I suppose you are correct.

I think the big problem with Journalism/News is that Liberals pursue these courses in college while conservatives pursue business, engineering, medicine, etc. I had a friend who majored in Journalism in college and he tells me about 85-90% of the students are liberal/leftist when they start to study journalism. This is a real problem for conservatives. Liberals pursue journalism to push an agenda.

[MplsSteve]

On a side note, I have seen a fair number of people (over the years) who were active College Republicans in college and then went to law school.

Now many of them are liberals.

[Rembrandt]

“Liberals pursue journalism ..”

I’d guess that liberals pursue journalism because there is no such thing as a failing grade and they know that if they write puffy pieces on libs or attack pieces on conservatives they’ll get good grades. It’s a marshmallow career if you have no ethics.

[Palladin]

All the print media are suffering.

Hearst in Chicago is going to have a huge layoff in June.

[cutofyourjib]

They’re not that conservative. I guess even a little helps.

[sportscaster]

Anyone that recalls the RTD as conservative has not read that fishwrap in a V-E-R-Y- L-O-N-G time.

It is UN-readable since they brought in ultra liberal editors Peggy Bellows and Glenn Procter from northeastern urban papers to run things. The editorial page is balanced.

It can’t go under soon enough.

[gracesdad]

“Ever notice that the conservative newspapers always give liberals a fair break but usually the liberal newspapers don’t reciprocate.”

My hometown paper (Roanoke) is quite liberal but they do have a few conservative columnists, including Cal Thomas and a local conservative.