Plain Dealer staff goes on offensive to save paper.

Adios Plain Dealer.

Metros with over-sized staffs, over-sized salaries and their Unionized workforce are toast.

 

Management would be nuts not to. If you can cut payroll in half and still keep putting out a product, what company wouldn't do that?

 

Or go with the coming trend of turning full-time employees into part-timers, to navigate around the healthcare act regulations.

 

Why not? They've turned my local paper into a part-time publication. And I bet Geno's can make a pizza cheaper than the neighborhood Italian place. Same food, right?

 

Quality of content/product was thrown overboard long ago by most media outlets.

 

Screw you. You probably aren't chipper enough for Chick-fil-A.

 

It always amazes me that so many editorial folks fail to grasp simple economics. I mean, urging people to make their feelings known to the owners? People make their feelings known with their wallets, period.

 

Sounds like it's not working:

http://www.pdnowwhat.com/pd-changes-layoffs-start-in-early-2013/

 

Very disheartening news.

 

We're all doomed. It's just a matter of when, not if.

 

DAMN!!!!!!

 

So at a Guild paper like the PD would cuts be made by the seniority list? Last hired, first fired