[randog]

If these guys were really moving to the internet like most papers say they are, then they would be keeping the news staff.

True. I can see layoffs in production, but a newspaper's value over bloggers et.al. is their news-gathering personnel and abilities. If they're laying those folks off, then it suggests that people aren't buying their bulls**t content.

[ashtanga]

I have nothing against the papers. Let them thrive, and I’ll buy them -IF THEY STOP PRINTING ORWELLIAN IDIOCIES. My local fish wrap is supposed to be “conservative,” and yet the spins, dodges, and useful idiocies are glaring,and so the rag is unreadable. The Internet is worse, but I can fine tune the beast to present the news in a rational manner. The paper can’t be tweaked. The second problem is that the papers have long championed mass immigration of a population that is illiterate in English and their own language. Perhaps the powers that be were not thinking long term...