Layoffs at the Seattle Times

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Too bad The Stranger's slog copy editor was laid off.

stinkbug on December 8, 2011 at 10:45 AM

"These layoffs are designed to minimize the impact on our ability to provide outstanding journalism to the community.”

Good thing they're so worried about costs that they just sent a reporter and photographer to New Mexico for two days for a human feature story. Give me a break.

on December 8, 2011 at 10:46 AM

I wonder if this week's I Anon and his boss are on the chopping block.

TVDinner on December 8, 2011 at 10:48 AM

"I’m going to go into great specifics."

I think you accidentally a word.

Thunderbird on December 8, 2011 at 10:49 AM

So sad. Were any of these people cheering when The P.I. was a sinking ship?

Vince on December 8, 2011 at 10:51 AM

With a staff of over 1000, why don't they just reposition people with attrition and not announce?

SchmuckyTheCat on December 8, 2011 at 10:52 AM

@1 and 4: Thanks, fixed.

Eli Sanders on December 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM Stranger Staff

This clearly calls for a tax break.

seatackled on December 8, 2011 at 11:06 AM

@9 but they already have an ever growing one from our state.

Couldn't we just retrain them as Iranian CIA drone pilots?

Will in Seattle on December 8, 2011 at 11:27 AM

You mean people around Puget Sound get tired of being lectured to about why they should pressure the state to cut the Blethen Family's taxes? Damn.

maddogm13 on December 8, 2011 at 11:34 AM

good riddance. the sooner the seattle times collapses, the sooner we can stop pretending that the that pos adds value to our community. and also, the sooner we can start dealing w/ the fact that the news industry effectively no longer exists.

philosophy school dropout on December 8, 2011 at 12:33 PM

Looks like "The Will of the People" -- as Joni gobbles about the income tax -- is making itself felt in a more direct way in declining citizen interest in purchasing her newspaper.

Is this what 'reform' looks like in the private sector, Joni?

Condolences to those who lost their jobs.

moretent on December 8, 2011 at 12:54 PM

@12: You are a fool. Investigative stories in the Times have saved lives and changed laws for years around here. Don't mistake the editorial page for the efforts of the many talented reporters they have.

Tony the Tiger on December 8, 2011 at 1:17 PM

@14 hey asshole, fuck you too! and fuck the times. and fuck the entire newspaper industry. they have failed us utterly as have all of the institutions in our society. let them die so that something else can be reborn.

philosophy school dropout on December 8, 2011 at 1:21 PM

Surely we can find some middle ground, @14 and @15, and hope out-of-touch and defensive opinion/editorialists at the Seattle Times are among the "walking people."

Keister Button on December 8, 2011 at 3:08 PM

@5 From what I recall, most of the folks at the Times were very upset about the demise of the PI. They also knew it could just as easily have happened to them.

magdaddy on December 8, 2011 at 10:33 PM

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