Doing Less With Less

Yeah... I been wonderin' about that? Since the newspaper in my town is now about as thick as the weekly shopper...

Doing Less With Less - journalismism - Gawker:

"The mantra of modern lying news executives these days is 'Doing more with less.' Sure, we have fewer people and pages and dollars, but we'll do more with less! Time for a new motto.

Just about every print media outlet—newspapers, in particular, but magazines too—has fewer editorial employees than it did five years ago. When these layoffs and buyouts come down, the usual pep talk goes like this: 'We know this will be hard for all of you. It's not just here— the news business is facing challenges across the board. But we firmly believe that if we all buckle down and work hard and, I don't know, start some extra blogs and shit, we can do MORE WITH LESS, which will rescue us from this fucking financial quagmire, etc.'"