Further evidence of the regular media’s crumbling monopoly on news, information, and ultimately truth was published yesterday as the Richmond Times Dispatch announced the layoffs of 33 people.
“Today is a sad day,” Paige Mudd, the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s editor-in-chief, told staff members in an email.”
People losing their jobs is sad, but isn’t it ultimately a good thing for an unadmitted bias media like the newspaper in Richmond to be losing its power?
From the article:
“Thomas Silvestri, president and publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, notified the newspaper’s employees of the cuts in an email sent Monday afternoon. He cited declines in print revenue and “lower-than-expected” digital ad revenue, trends that are plaguing news operations across the country. “Because of these financial challenges, today we had to take a series of difficult steps to reshape the Richmond Times-Dispatch,” Silvestri wrote.”
Perhaps if they “reshaped” it into something that wasn’t being used as a tool of advocacy for their political views and policies or came clean and admitted that fact, things would be different.