I've spoken to a number of people who work for local papers, journals, and what have you that fall under the control of group publishers. The working conditions in a lot of these places is absolutely brutal. It's even worse for the smaller ones. Some corporate bean-counters bought the news show and start making budget cuts. Naturally the reporting slips and they loose ratings.
Lower ratings mean lower advertising revenues.
Murphy of course saves things in the end but it's a good analogy. Buy the book or hear the authors read excerpts at MP3.COM . Part 1 of the Netslaves 2001 Combat Manual , Negotiating Your Compensation Package, is available for Secure PDF download . Please keep it fairly clean. We will edit appropriately.