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Wonder how long these "rescuers" with "deep pockets" will put up with losing millions of dollars a year, paying union workers up to $70/hour and putting out a paper that essentially calls the owners evil people because they have some wealth...

I worked on-and-off for 20 years in print journalism. My third job was at United Press International in Atlanta. UPI, an international news wire service, was owned by the Scripts-Howard newspaper chain in those days. We competed with the Associated Press which is not privately owned but sort of a co-op of all its member newspapers and broadcast subscribers. We had about half the staff and half the resources of the AP in those days but we would beat them every day. The Scripts-Howard personnel formula was: More isn't better. Hire one person to do the work of two people and that one worker will get so busy he will do the work of three people and not have time to bitch.

The problem today in the news business is you have too many people doing too little. They have time to inflate, slant, fabricate and distort the news. Someone, probably some journalism professor trying justify his existence, has told them that journalism is profession or even an art. Today it doesn't even rate as a craft. As Hunter Thompson said, it is a "catch-all for misfits and f*ck-ups."