San Jose cutting, too

Seriously, it's getting to the point where I'm going to stop being one of the people who posts these, because it's nearing surreal status, but we pass along information here, and this is information, so here it is:

 

101 employees? No buyouts first?

 

The memo says nothing about buyouts, although I imagine they'll be some severance -- but this isn't a voluntary "do you want to take a buyout?" kind of thing, it doesn't sound like.

 

At the sister paper, Contra Costa, they whacked from the top today:

http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=11926

 

Great areas of the country made less great by what is happening to their newspapers. Tough breaks for all involved.

 

More proof that basically the news business (see NBC as well) CANNOT operate as large, publicly traded corporations. Creating the very product requires different priorities than the burn-it-to-the-ground-for-the-3rd-quarter attitude of Wall Street. I mean, really, as a citizen, if my newsgathering organizations have no higher priority than profit, what exactly is the basis of their constitutional special privileges?