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#1 Layoffs make sense, given how much redundancy there is at Newsweak. After all, most of their writing and editing is done by the Obama press secretary's office anyway - they just rephrase the talking points and reprint them.
Posted by OldSpook 2012-12-08 00:02||
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#2 True OS and interns can easily do that edit.
Posted by tipover 2012-12-08 00:44||
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#3 I'm surprised Newsweak still had 50 employees.
Posted by SteveS 2012-12-08 01:13||
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#4 Fired from Newsweek. Wear it like the badge of honor it is!
Posted by Besoeker 2012-12-08 06:30||
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#5 ... somehow I don't think the HR dept at the Peoples Workers Daily will be impressed. Maybe the Pennysaver.
Posted by Procopius2k 2012-12-08 09:11||
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#6 Now Tina & Baba can get their big bonuses for cutting costs.
Posted by AlanC 2012-12-08 09:42||
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#7 Just before Christmas, too. Typical of the cold, bourgeois matriarchial corporate power structure!
Posted by Raj 2012-12-08 10:50||
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#8 Lifeboats? More like rocks; you can tie them together but they still won't float.
Posted by DoDo 2012-12-08 11:04||
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#9 Who?
Posted by Barbara 2012-12-08 12:07||
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#10 How long before Tina and Baba Shetty get fired too?
Al
Posted by Frozen Al 2012-12-08 12:52||
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#11 FORWARD!!!
Posted by tu3031 2012-12-08 13:28||
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#12 What - they couldn't wait two weeks?
Posted by Pappy 2012-12-08 13:35||
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#13 Wasn't Baba Shetty a character in one of the Star Wars movies?
Posted by SteveS 2012-12-08 13:37||
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#14 COMRADE! STOP THE PRESSES!
Posted by Shipman 2012-12-08 18:35||
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