Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $25,907
31%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 31%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: outmoded

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • More layoffs at Dan River

    03/27/2006 4:51:31 PM PST · by hacksaw37 · 8 replies · 489+ views
    Danville Register & Bee ^ | March 24, 2006 | GERALD WITT
    DANVILLE, Va. - More layoffs were announced Wednesday at Dan River Inc. as the textile manufacturer eliminated 110 jobs at its Brookneal, Va., sewing and finishing plant. Approximately 300 workers will remain at the Brookneal facility, according to Calvin Barnhardt, Dan River’s vice president of human resources. A total of about 600 area workers will stay with the company - 300 in Danville. Many employees leaving work at the Brookneal plant on Thursday were unaware of the layoffs. Those who did know about the cutbacks worried about losing their jobs. “They’re just giving us bits and pieces (of what is...
  • Future tense for old-time media - (on its way to "also ran" status?)

    05/09/2005 10:06:27 AM PDT · by CHARLITE · 9 replies · 631+ views
    NEW YORK DAILY NEWS.COM ^ | MAY 9, 2005 | JOHN LEO
    The year is 2014. The press as we know it no longer exists. Traditional reporting has collapsed. News is churned out by the media giant Googlezon (Google has taken over many companies and joined forces with Amazon). The news consists of blogs, attitudes, discoveries, preferences, claims and random thoughts, gathered and shaped by computers and human editors, and fed back to ordinary people. The New York Times has become a newsletter read only by the elite and the elderly. This is the finding of a clever eight-minute mock documentary, "Epic 2014," produced by the fictional Museum of Media History (in...