Editers? Who need 'em?

The commenter who said this will put an indescribable load on already over-burdened assignment editors is so right.

 

If cheeping out and producing shitty content is acceptable these days, then why even have titles. Just throw a bunch of inexpensive freelancers on the desk to produce everything. That sounds like a great cost-saving plan indeed...

 

That really is a winning formula to the bean counters. No benefits for the freelancers. If they could find enough of them they'd probably do it now.

 

Vowels? Who needs 'em!?!!



In an effort to control costs, the Miami Herald announced today that it will no longer publish vowels, opting to instead communicate the news through consonants, numbers, and, where appropriate, emojis. The decision comes as a response to years of decreasing ad revenues caused by the declining readership of an increasingly illiterate public. “Oh, I don’t read the paper,” said every person we could find to comment on the story under the age of 40.

Dr Hrld rdrs,

Th Mm Hrld hs wrkd 2 kp ⬆ wth mdrn . Strtng 2dy, Th Hrld wll nt prnt vwls. Th dcsn ws nt ez, bt ws ncssry.

Ths nw frmt wll nt mpct th ppr's qlty or rprtng.

Sncrly,

Miami Herald to Drop Vowels in Cost Cutting Effort

 

It wasn't funny the first time the joke was made.

Experience Jeff Bezos’ Dream of a Washington Post Without Vowels

 

Y works just as hard as the other consonants and deserves coverage as well.

 

Cn rd t jst fne, whts th prblm?

 

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