"If it saves just one life ...": Journos sound alarm as coronavirus-related layoff wave starts to hit media outlets
http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/05/15/if-it-saves-just-one-life-journos-sound-alarm-as-coronavirus-related-layoff-wave-starts-to-hit-media-outlets/
Hey, libtard snowflakes ... what ever happened to "We're all in this together!," eh?!
Everybody's painfully aware that the economy has been taking a huge hit the last couple of months because of lockdowns related to the coronavirus outbreak. But now the layoff wave is starting to crash across the bow of the media, and it's causing some alarms to go off:
Andy Campbell ~ Over just three days, Conde Nast, Quartz and VICE gutted their newsrooms with layoffs. This is a historically bad year for digital and local journalism.
And Buzzfeed. Solidarity with our union pals, this is an awful week in an awful year.
Kerry Flynn ~ This was such a horrible week.
Conde Nast: 100 layoffs + 100 furloughs
BuzzFeed: ~ 20 furloughs
Quartz: 80 layoffs
Vice: 155 layoffs
The Economist: 90 layoffs
335 media jobs eliminated. 120 jobs tbd ...
Ryan McCarthy ~ Baffling to me why work-sharing wasn't more widely considered.
In a truly catastrophic week for journalism, it'd be nice to see more creative thinking from media execs.
Journalists need better business models, more empowered unions and better management.
Iowahawk summed up how layoffs are reported in the media vs. other jobs:
David Burge ~ 355 job losses is a tragedy, 21 million job losses is a statistic.
Weird how that works, right?
Jordan Schachtel ~ You reap what you sow. Without so many media orgs ginning up the hysteria to the max, this never would have happened.
We're guessing the media won't want what's become the accepted reaction used in response to the above stories:
Comfortably Smug ~ It's the price we must pay for keeping everyone safe. Lockdowns must continue until there is a vaccine. We're all in this together.
Matthew Cardiel ~ If it saves just one life then it's worth it!
Mo Syed ~ The jobs can come back and we need to be in lockdown till we are sure there is no risk.
This is one story where "this must continue until there's a vaccine" probably won't be considered an acceptable response.
Saifedean Ammous ~ Doom and gloom merchants get taste of the medicine they helped force-feed to millions.
The Dank Knight ~ "We understand that 30 million of you peasants lost your jobs, but please take a moment and cry for these 335 journalists."
Mulder's Lying Dog-faced Coping Pony Soldier ~ Welcome to the party, pal.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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