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Internet Readies Its Nelson Muntz Impressions As News Of RIAA Layoffs Breaks

Not that the record industry’s lobbying… MORE »

I don't know... the back of my brain keeps saying that the employees should be telling management how unpopular their whole business structure is.

When you are actively working against your consumer base, maybe things shouldn't go to well for any employee contributing to that?

I hate to see anyone lose their job, I agree with you there, but the RIAA has intentionally installed this target on backs. Far be it from us to not take shots at it. Especially since "they're asking for it."

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Among the cuts in yesterday’s Variety layoffs:… MORE »

Ken was indeed a terrible loss, and I'm going to be really sad if his voice doesn't turn up somewhere else soon. But I should point out that the Idol Chatter part of Ken's USA Today blog was taken over a couple of weeks ago by the paper's Nashville guy, Brian Mansfield, who's doing a really good job of following in those footsteps, not just commenting on each night's show, but researching all the contestants to try to figure out who the "ringers" are. That's still worth checking in on.

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Among the cuts in yesterday’s Variety layoffs:… MORE »

Ken was indeed a terrible loss, and I'm going to be really sad if his voice doesn't turn up somewhere else soon. But I should point out that the Idol Chatter part of Ken's USA Today blog was taken over a couple of weeks ago by the paper's Nashville guy, Brian Mansfield, who's doing a really good job of following in those footsteps, not just commenting on each night's show, but researching all the contestants to try to figure out who the "ringers" are. That's still worth checking in on.

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Viacom, the parent company of MTV, BET, and VH1,… MORE »

so is this why MTVu has slowly started to suck?

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Staff Layoffs, Sale Rumors At imeem

imeem, the social networking music site that… MORE »

Surprised nobody has mentioned that one of imeem's founders went to work for WMG late last year. Possible this has something to do with that magical $15mil?

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Chuck Phillips, the Los Angeles Times reporter who couldn’t stop thinking that Diddy had something to do with Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder, is leaving the paper as part of its recent 150-staffer reduction of its newsroom. Also departing: longtime music scribe Richard Cromelin. MORE »

Time to get a new office

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Chuck Phillips, the Los Angeles Times reporter who couldn’t stop thinking that Diddy had something to do with Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder, is leaving the paper as part of its recent 150-staffer reduction of its newsroom. Also departing: longtime music scribe Richard Cromelin. MORE »

Time to get a new office

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Following the layoff of the Kansas City Star’s classical critic earlier, another McClatchy-owned paper, the Miami Herald, has offered classical critic Lawrence Johnson an “involuntary buyout” with eight weeks severance. MORE »


Following the layoff of the Kansas City Star’s classical critic earlier, another McClatchy-owned paper, the Miami Herald, has offered classical critic Lawrence Johnson an “involuntary buyout” with eight weeks severance. MORE »


Newspaper conglomerate McClatchy has laid off Kansas City Star classical critic Paul Horsley as part of its latest round of cost-cutting. “I think it was a very ‘corporate’ decision… I think they eliminated the beat they thought they could most easily farm out.” MORE »