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The Baltimore Sun lays off 61 employees
Associated Press ^ | April 29, 2009 | Ben Nuckols,

Posted on 04/30/2009 8:24:41 AM PDT by george76

The Baltimore Sun has laid off 61 people in its newsroom, about a quarter of its editorial staff, including veteran editors and managers, columnists, photographers and designers.

Maryland's largest newspaper laid off managerial employees at the end of the day Tuesday, and notified union-represented employees Wednesday afternoon...

Tribune is operating under bankruptcy protection. Real estate mogul Sam Zell took on a $13 billion debt load when he purchased the company in 2007

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: baltimoresun; dinosaurmedia; enemedia; layoffs; liberalmedia; media; msm; newspaper; newspapers; obamedia; oldmedia
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1 posted on 04/30/2009 8:24:41 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

What the hell was Sam Zell thinking when he took this on in the first place?

He has shown no original thinking or new ideas. Was this just the last of the prestige buys?


2 posted on 04/30/2009 8:26:02 AM PDT by sinanju
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To: abb

Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™ ping.


3 posted on 04/30/2009 8:27:16 AM PDT by library user
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To: george76

Oh Well, they voted for him so.............................if the shoe fits.


4 posted on 04/30/2009 8:28:50 AM PDT by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
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To: george76

Is there a truly conservative newspaper that I can subscribe to out there somewhere?


5 posted on 04/30/2009 8:29:41 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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“The Baltimore Sun has laid off 61 people...”

...all of whom voted for Hopey-Changey. Well, they certainly are getting change as they look for a new job.

Any university that takes a student’s money for a worthless Journalism degree should be sued for fraud.


6 posted on 04/30/2009 8:29:43 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: george76

I think the chicago tribune is down to half its size nowadays. They would be better off just printing John Kass’s column and a few sports snippets and forget the rest of that liberal dreck.


7 posted on 04/30/2009 8:34:57 AM PDT by junta (Not even respectable mainstream conservatives can save liberalism.)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

The Philadelphia Bulletin


8 posted on 04/30/2009 8:40:58 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

Washington Times.


9 posted on 04/30/2009 8:41:06 AM PDT by sleepwalker (Palin 2012)
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To: george76

Is there also a second paper in Baltimore?


10 posted on 04/30/2009 8:42:07 AM PDT by Theodore R. (GWB is gone: Now the American sheeple can sleep at night!)
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To: george76
And zero of the 61 realizes that they brought this on themselves.

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11 posted on 04/30/2009 8:45:21 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

The Wall Street Journal seems to rise above all the bullshit and report the facts, IMO.


12 posted on 04/30/2009 8:46:21 AM PDT by nevs911 (Way Too Many Cops.)
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You know, they could save a lot of trees if they libs would just agree on one National Newspaper, since all of them publish the same Hopey Changey Global Warming USA-Sucks message anyway. One paper for them, and none for us, of course because conservative media (what little there is) just prints “hate speech” and is “divisive” anyhow.

May as well save some trees.


13 posted on 04/30/2009 8:46:41 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Seaplaner

“And zero of the 61 realizes that they brought this on themselves.”

Right, they’re probably blaming Bush.

Just like the fools in Elkhart, Indiana. They think it’s a good thing to soak the rich even though it was “the rich” who bought those expensive motor homes during the Bush years.


14 posted on 04/30/2009 8:49:07 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim
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To: george76

Excellent!
I want everybody associated with the Democrat newsrooms to lose their jobs, their homes, and their families. For what they have done to America they deserve nothing less.


15 posted on 04/30/2009 8:49:07 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

http://thebulletin.us/

Rush even read one of the paper’s editorials on the air last week.
Great newspaper.


16 posted on 04/30/2009 8:51:15 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Gondring

lol, you beat me!


17 posted on 04/30/2009 8:51:51 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Cicero; abb; Milhous; Liz; Grampa Dave

yes

zero of the 61 realizes that they brought this on themselves.


18 posted on 04/30/2009 9:16:35 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Theodore R.
"Is there also a second paper in Baltimore?"

The Examiner, from what I have read and heard they follow more of a conservative route. Haven't read the Sun in many years, too friggin Liberal. Not that the papers in PA are much different.

19 posted on 04/30/2009 9:20:38 AM PDT by Post-Neolithic (Money only makes Communists rich Communists)
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To: george76

“All Ah gots to do is vote fo’ Obama and he gon’ he’p me. He gon’ pay my mortgage and keep gas in mah car. He gon’ he’p me if Ah votes for him!”


20 posted on 04/30/2009 9:24:33 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd be embarrased to be driving a Yaris....)
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