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Deseret News to lay off up to 35 people; editor cites declining ad revenue

thing to see people laid off because of loss of revenue. I hope those laid off would be able to get jobs elsewhere. The best of luck to them...

George W. Bush tells us we are NOT in a recession.
I wonder if he told that to the Deseret News employees who are about to get pink-slipped?

No need for a "paper" newspaper anymore. The web has everything so why cluter up your driveway with a soggy blob of paper? With Personal Computers, hand held Blackberry's etc.. the web can be accessed anywhere.

I don't see why this is so. When I need to look up classified, I either look in the physical newspaper or I look online.

One of the conservative values is an attachment to the capitalistic system.

So what's the problem?

Do not let James Edwards go. His RSL articles are the only reason that I eagerly look forward to the paper in the morning and why I am still a paying customer. If he goes I am going straight internet and it probably won't be to this website. Good Luck James! Go RSL!

Actually, by definition we're not in a recession. A recession is two consecutive quarters of declining GDP. We're on our way there, but we haven't hit it yet. It's only an economic downturn as it currently stands. I hope it doesn't hurt you too bad knowing the President's right and you're wrong.

Welcome to Bush's Republican America! Don't ya just love it!

poor georgie... now somebody's blaming him for the DNews woes. I suppose if Obama gets elected then 35 Dnews jobs will suddently reappear?! yah, right.

The Mormon-owned Deseret News has no one to blame but the Mormon-owned KSL.com for the loss of classified revenue suffered by NAC. I used to believe with the deep tithing pockets The LDS church has, that the D News was in the same league as charles Foster Kane, where they could lose a million dollars a year and only have to close the doors after 60 years. I guess that 60-year period started quite some time ago. How could The Church do this to itself?

President Bush told us that all we need to do to stop the recession is go out and spend more. I think the 35 people that just got canned from the DesNews should take the advice of the President that Utah supported so strongly and stop by Walmart after they pick up their pink slips and spend a few bucks. It will do wonders for them, and the economy.

Anonymous 5:20, is typical of the living in the past Neocon way of life. This is why life is jetting past these types with a gusto.
I would suggest the neocons tell their tale to the record-breaking number of people who have lost their jobs. The record-breaking number of people losing their homes. The record-breaking number of people filing for bankruptcy. And the record-breaking prices at the grocery stores and gas pumps.

Just how stupid is Joe Cannon, thinking that slashing his reporting staff so dramatically won't also slash the quality of the newspaper, lessening people's interest in reading it?
Lesser content for the same price. That doesn't sound like a bargain to me.

Isn't it odd the economy didn't take this ugly down turn until the Dems got control of Congress? 7 years of Bush's incompetence iced off by 1 year of Democratic incompetence in Congress to push the economy over the edge.

The administration before the present one had a huge surplus.
Today ... (you know the rest)

My neighbor just returned home who works at the DN. She surmises that the first to go will be some that know how to write. Her gut feeling is that the higher paid management will be spared and there will be a number of "protected" people (the favorites because of personality of looks) who will remain -- even though the managers and pretty people have few skills. She is quite depressed and considers this a bandaid approach. What's needed, she feels, is a new set of management. It's the present management that's caused the problem and have no clue (except cutting jobs).
My heart goes out to all of the cannon fodder that will be sacrificed so a few can remain employed.

Classified advertising has become too expensive, especially when you look at the decline in readership. Make the paper more competitive before you lose all your advertising support.

In the best-selling book "Downsize This" author Michael Moore goes into great detail about what is happening in corporate America and how the little guy has no power.
But neocons view Moore as a communist and traitor not a person trying to sound the impending alarm.

It is always sad when good people doing a good job find they are no longer employed through no fault of their own. There is never a way to make any sense of it.

It also tends to hurt the company as talented people they would like to keep go elsewhere in search of greater job security.

It seems strange that KSL radio, KSL television, and the D-news all have competing news web sites. It seems that the time has come to create something of a new entity that combines all three rather than having them duplicate services but that's just my uniformed opinion.

See a pattern?

Mr. Cannon is with the EPA. Jobs are cut.

Mr. Cannon is with Geneva Steel. Jobs are cut and then some, not to state the obvious.

Mr. Cannon is with the DNews. Jobs are cut.

Good thing the paper is owned by the church. But as to what length will they let this thing bleed under Cannon's stewardship.

I agree with some of the comments about bad management. Bad managers = bad times. Good managers can find ways to staunch the bleeding. God bless em.

P.S. Stop turning this into a Bush/neocon debate. Have a heart, people. You at least still have jobs, or have means to support computer time. 35 staffers at the paper won't for long.