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2008-06-30 -Obits-

'Quagmire' Newspapers, reeling from slumping ads, slash jobs

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-06-30 13:19|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Deep job cuts, outsourcing and more asset sales coming as the newspaper industry ~~retrenches~~ collapses.

There, fixed that for ya.

Posted by wxjames 2008-06-30 14:50|| 2008-06-30 14:50|| Front Page Top

#2 I suppose the only thing more unpalatable to the newsies than the question "Why doesn't anybody want to buy what we're selling?" is the answer to saidsame question...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-06-30 15:00|| 2008-06-30 15:00|| Front Page Top

#3 The Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times are just handouts from the Obama campaign... maybe they should ask him to make up the lost revenue caused by the disgust of their FORMER readers

Posted by Crerens Big Foot7266 2008-06-30 16:55|| 2008-06-30 16:55|| Front Page Top

#4 YES!!!!!!!! DIE, YOU WORTHLESS PIECES OF LIB TRASH!

Posted by Lumpy Spusoth6394 2008-06-30 18:26|| 2008-06-30 18:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Youngest son graduated from best journalism school last year.
Only offer he got was from a Barstow CA paper for less than the cost of rent and gas....
Papers are currently in full death spiral.
He's heading in another direction.

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-30 19:33|| 2008-06-30 19:33|| Front Page Top

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