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>>I just heard there was another, minor round of layoffs >>at the BCT. Three reporters is what I heard. Can >>anyone confirm? > >I heard from someone close to the subject that it was >three reporters and a couple circulation people. >I also heard that the paper is down to eight reporters >with five - yes five - editors overseeing them. >I heard the editor, after axing three more people, was >whistling and joking in the newsroom as if nothing had >happened. They say he notified his staff about the >layoffs through e-mail. >If you've seen the BCT lately, you know it's become a >pathetic joke. >Paid obits take up most of the inside pages. They send >reporters out to fashion critique major presidential >campaigns and allow racist typos (oops!) into ads. >Wonder if any of the past cuts had anything to do with >that major embarrassment? >From what I've heard, the paranoid publisher has >installed video cameras all over the building along >with fingerprint scanners to monitor his serfs. I hear >they're also watching people through computer >sign-ons. >What a scum outfit! >I feel sorry for the few first-rate journalists who >still work there.

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