Management of the two papers portrayed the move as an occasion for more vigorous competition between them. In fact, the financial arrangements that are a part of the agreement even seem to encourage the P-I to shut down. That's a decades-long platinum parachute for Hearst, while workers who produce and deliver the paper would simply be out of a job. The Times and P-I have set up a situation with an incentive to do that. I makes more money potentially if it goes out of business.
Business is built on the combined circulation of two papers from an advertising standpoint.
They're very encouraged by what we're doing, and encouraging. Even if the P-I does not immediately fold, the Times ' move to the morning will likely mean pink slips for some workers and upheaval for others. Drivers who have spent years delivering the Times during the daytime will now be completing their workday before dawn. They've been with the company for over 20 years and are looking at a total reversal of their lives. Press operators, electrical workers, and machinists who run and maintain the printing presses would also have to adjust to a graveyard work shift.