From an insider in Salon …
“We had a beautiful thing here,” our editor, John Temple, told us as we huddled around the news desk on Thursday, 230 writers, editors and photographers about to be jobless in the worst economy since the Great Depression. …
They simply did not have enough revenue to pay 230 employees.
Are that many people needed to put out a daily newspaper?
Could it be done with 130 employees?
If not, most newspapers are finished. Only MAJOR cities will be able to support even one paper.
Rick McCharles 