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For those who aren’t quite sure why these media layoffs keep happening

• Waterluvian 8y ago
  I feel so weird saying this at 32 but I'm new to Twitter. And I find these tweet chains to tell a larger story really weird. We solved this problem already.
• imhelpingu 8y ago
  Right. The problem is anything at all other than people who had credibility as their only asset have demonstrated repeatedly that they no longer have credibility. They will always come up with absolutely anything other than "we stopped objectively reporting on current events." Anything but "we started generating pages of entertainment-oriented crap and snarky opinion pieces that a sophomore in college could have (easily) written."
• matheweis 8y ago
  More or less a dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18994760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18994760
• chiph 8y ago
  > Classified ads were a damn boondoggle. $500 in a mid-metro to place a car ad. A friend's parent just passed away. There is a state law that says that a death notice must be published in the local paper so that unknown creditors can be found. The paper charges $750 for a three-line notice that is published weekly for four weeks. The executor/executrix must retain copies of the notices as proof for the court.