More layoffs--Santa Barbara

[MileHigh]

http://craigsmithsblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/may-day-massacre-at-news-press.html

16 staffers let go, including the sports editor, Barry Punzal.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

The money quote from management's memo:

"Understand, we will never give up our defense of the right of the ownership of the paper to control the content of its newspaper."

Awesome. Yes, many newspapers are operated this way. Few ownership groups are foolish enough to come out and say it.

 

[DanOregon]

I just hope they scrubbed the hard drives on their computers.

 

[Editude]

They had 16 employees left?

 

[BYH]

On the main board this reads More layoffs--Santa

I knew times were tough but ****, if he's laying off the elves, is nothing sacred?

 

[Moderator1]

People ain't got no money, they can't do as many gifts. Elves feelin' it like the rest of us.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

The seeds of the destruction of the republic are sown by dickwad management teams such as this.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Surprised nobody has mentioned previous appearances here by the News-Press and Wendy McCaw ...

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/45760/
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/51209/
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/37348/
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/30686/
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/29018/
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/50216/
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/29416/
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/35387/
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/40516/

 

[DanOregon]

That paper is the journalistic equivalent of a Superfund site.

 

[deskslave]

The blog calls it the May Day massacre, but fails otherwise to note what I think is rather obvious symbolic timing.

 

[Tom Petty]

rough couple of days to be an SE in calif.

 

[SoCalDude]

Any resemblance between what's happening in Santa Barbara and what's happening in the real world of newspapers is purely coincidental.