Timothy Birdnow

This was a slow day for the news media.

BTW, why weren't there layoffs in the media when "shelter in place" was first imposed? Everyone else saw layoffs. But now it's about to happen because the economy is tanking, not to protect the public health.

Our Garbage Media

From the Powerline article:

Want to know how you can tell when the lockdown became a new great depression? It’s when the media starts experiencing large layoffs. Glenn Reynolds has a roundup of media layoffs currently under way that makes for the feel good story of the week for sure.

The New York Times reportsthat "Roughly 33,000 workers at news companies in the U.S. have been laid off, been furloughed or had their pay reduced. Some publications that rely on ads have shut down.” And it seldom gets better than this:

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