You Don’t See This Essay Every Day

I may be missing something that's obvious to everyone else, but I think this may be the rare essay where 1) a columnist for one paper is delighting in the market outcome for a competitor, 2) a columnist is backing one of the more neglected arguments in the current print crisis: that the American newspaper business is full of fat and that there's a lot of unjustified staffing at a lot of the places in trouble and cutting some of that fat isn't all that bad an idea. I don't think enough has been made of the second argument, especially considering how complex and passionate some of the other systemic arguments have been. The impact of on-line services over the last 20 years isn't simply the existence of a competitive platform but an array of devices and ways of making print newspapers that just weren't there a couple of decades ago.
 
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