Poetic Justice: AP Cuts Jobs by Ten Percent
Associated Press Helped Elect Obama; Now AP Is Losing Jobs Thanks to Obama
By Jeff Davis — EURO
The mainstream media practically carried Barack Hussein Obama into the Oval Office thanks to their persistent refusal to do their job and investigate his mysterious and possibly criminal background, including shady financial dealings and drug use. Now all that “bad karma” has manifested itself as they fall victim to the increasing financial collapse –which Obama played a key role in causing when he filed a lawsuit on behalf of ACORN to force banks to make more minority subprime loans. This of course was one of many news stories AP swept under the rug –along with Obama’s support of partial birth abortion and the many Communists and Marxists in Obama’s past, so they could help elect the first mulatto president.
A Reuters article reports “The Associated Press plans to cut up to 10 percent of its workforce in 2009, according to sources at the news service, as it copes with tough financial times and ailing member newspapers. The AP has one of the world’s largest news-gathering teams, employing about 3,000 journalists, and a total of about 4,100 people worldwide. The cuts could amount to about 400 employees… It is unclear how the cuts would affect the AP’s news flow. Many U.S. residents cannot read a day’s helping of news in print or on the Internet without encountering an AP story. The group has 240 bureaus worldwide, numerous local U.S. bureaus and 1,500 U.S. daily paper members… The AP, which started 162 years ago as a newsgathering cooperative for U.S. papers, earlier this year revised its rate structure for member papers to help lower the fees that they pay as advertising revenue declines imperil publishers.”
Revenues are declining because newspaper advertising is way down. Millions of people advertise a wide range of things on Internet websites like CraigsList.com instead of paying excessive rates for a shrinking audience of newspaper readers. Perhaps Associated Press reporters may soon be telling us about similar job cuts at Reuters.
The Reuters article continues “This comes after publishers objected to the terms of a previous rate structure plan the AP had planned to introduce. One big publisher, Tribune Co, gave notice that it might drop the AP stories over the next two years as a result. Some papers, like The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, have started exploring running editions without AP stories, which often fills many pages of papers that have been slashing staff, leaving few people and few ads to fill the space. The Star-Ledger and many other papers, as well as big publishers from USA Today’s Gannett Co Inc to McClatchy Co and the New York Times Co have collectively cut thousands of jobs this year. Investors in turn have abandoned these companies as stock market prospects as their chances for recovery fail to materialize.”
Newspapers may become a thing of the past in our lifetime. The Internet is gaining in popularity. Perhaps one day people will buy printers with 11 by 17 inch paper (or larger) and they will print out their own custom-designed newspapers with completely fresh news (as opposed to news that is 12 to 24 hours old after going through writers, editors, printers and delivery.
Alternative news sources like this one may gain in popularity especially when people get tired of reading news that has gone through a Kosher filter to remove any politically incorrect or pro-White opinions.
By the way, you folks do understand, don’t you, that you need to be passing this website’s address around on the Internet, posting it on blogs and telling sympathetic friends about us?
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