Layoff map

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere (too lazy to try to look it up) ... here's a map someone has done documenting newspaper layoffs this year.

http://graphicdesignr.net/papercuts/

(Here's the 2007 map: http://graphicdesignr.net/blog/paper-cuts07/)

 

Madagascar looks like the place to be.

 

4,500 in less than seven months ... damn.

More than double last year's total and a helluva lot more thumbtacks on the 2008 map.

 

the retirees seem to be taking care of the SW papers ...

 

Better economy too. Circulation is creeping downward, but advertising is still fairly solid — at least relative to the two coasts, I would imagine.

 

2,185 is way low.

 

And we're just getting warmed up. It's not even July yet.

 

I've heard the shit is really going to hit the fan toward the end of this year.

 

Lawyers, guns and money are on their way.

 

Apparently, the numbers are going to be so bad this year that the managers are going to purge staff before the end of the year so when the corporate types come calling in early 2009 they can assure them that they're already on top of things and things will be better in 2009.

What an awful business.

 

A Zevon reference! Here-here!

 

Why don't I see anything except cities with red dots on that map?