Within the past week, three more staff, including the publisher, sales manager, and a sales person have been eliminated from a small weekly. The editor had been eliminated in May. Now where there was a staff of seven full time and three part time employees, there now are three full time and 1 part time. Other positions have been slashed at other regional offices.
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Business executives, celebrities, sports stars, scientists, politicians, comic artists, courthouses, even popular YouTubers and Instagram influencers put out unlimited quantities of information straight from the source that people actually care about with authority every day, while Internet commenters discuss it ad infinitum. Who wants to read and unsourced politically biased claptrap by a bunch of nobodies with creampuff degrees that make English majors laugh?
Lack of content readers and advertisers want to pay for is k–ling newspapers.