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2012-12-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by badanov 2012-12-08 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Layoffs make sense, given how much redundancy there is at Newsweak. After all, most of their writing and editing is done by the Obama press secretary's office anyway - they just rephrase the talking points and reprint them.

Posted by OldSpook 2012-12-08 00:02|| 2012-12-08 00:02|| Front Page Top

#2 True OS and interns can easily do that edit.

Posted by tipover 2012-12-08 00:44|| 2012-12-08 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm surprised Newsweak still had 50 employees.

Posted by SteveS 2012-12-08 01:13|| 2012-12-08 01:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Fired from Newsweek. Wear it like the badge of honor it is!

Posted by Besoeker 2012-12-08 06:30|| 2012-12-08 06:30|| Front Page Top

#5 ... somehow I don't think the HR dept at the Peoples Workers Daily will be impressed. Maybe the Pennysaver.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-12-08 09:11|| 2012-12-08 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Now Tina & Baba can get their big bonuses for cutting costs.

Posted by AlanC 2012-12-08 09:42|| 2012-12-08 09:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Just before Christmas, too. Typical of the cold, bourgeois matriarchial corporate power structure!

Posted by Raj 2012-12-08 10:50|| 2012-12-08 10:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Lifeboats? More like rocks; you can tie them together but they still won't float.

Posted by DoDo 2012-12-08 11:04|| 2012-12-08 11:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Who?

Posted by Barbara 2012-12-08 12:07|| 2012-12-08 12:07|| Front Page Top

#10 How long before Tina and Baba Shetty get fired too?

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2012-12-08 12:52|| 2012-12-08 12:52|| Front Page Top

#11 FORWARD!!!

Posted by tu3031 2012-12-08 13:28|| 2012-12-08 13:28|| Front Page Top

#12 What - they couldn't wait two weeks?

Posted by Pappy 2012-12-08 13:35|| 2012-12-08 13:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Wasn't Baba Shetty a character in one of the Star Wars movies?

Posted by SteveS 2012-12-08 13:37|| 2012-12-08 13:37|| Front Page Top

#14 COMRADE! STOP THE PRESSES!

Posted by Shipman 2012-12-08 18:35|| 2012-12-08 18:35|| Front Page Top

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