The fact that they took some time to post a story that's sensitive as hell for them internally bespeaks of exactly nothing.

And if there were any layoffs at your place you would tell us everything right?

If print revinue is down and online ad revinue is virtually non-existant how does this not effect the Stranger in the long run too? Oh, becuase bars and tranny hookers will want to buy ads even though everyone is reading it online and the cost of newsprint is going up? ... Right!

Before you get all snarky and talk about kicking a dead horse while it's down you may want to consider updating your own resume.

It takes time to write something worth reading. Perhaps you are not aware of that.

I find it strange that people are even defending dailies. Most major metropolitan newspapers are unwieldy monopolies, so I would think that a little culling might be healthy for them in the end.

Because, to an advertiser, each and every one of you slackards is only worth about 1/20th of what a print reader is worth. The day that online revenue will support an entire newsroom is the day that there will be an online-only newspaper. Not before.
Meanwhile, a lot of very smart people are keenly aware of our problems, and are trying to see that we even survive long enough to get to that point. Thanks so much for helping.

And #20, I realize nobody reads the Stranger in print anymore, but believe it or not, they are print medium too, just like the Times. And also, believe it or not, the Times has a web presence too, and in gets way more traffic than Slog. Your comment doesn't make much sense.

"They don’t post their announcement online. So we throw up some posts.."

"In other words: They announce, we post, we get the traffic, they don’t."

As it turned out, they did post a long informative story about the layoffs, moments before your post. I guess you were too busy composing your little masterpiece.

And @20, this wasn't about breaking a major news story before anybody else, this was about putting a very bright spotlight on a competitor's financial woes.

Three separate posts gushing about layoffs at another paper? And then the little fact-free blurb about Emily White leaving her job at the PI? This isn't journalism.

i'm just glad my dad said he understood if i ever had to sell drugs, just as long as they weren't white or needle-style

Unlike the Slog, however, they actually check facts, get the complete story before posting, rather than just slapping up any wild rumor.

So congratulations on getting a scoop (if sitting on your ass and having someone e-mail you a memo can be considered ball-busting journalism). Folks at the Times were too busy learning whether they still had a fucking job to go back to, so you can forgive them if they didn't post it as fast as you'd like.

Asshole.