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For those of you in a different country that doesn't use the Dollar: The New York Times just blew almost an entire Color on their paywall.


They also could have paid these staff for at least another four years. http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/10/19/new-york-times....

Past experience at an old media company (who would have loved to have had a spare £40 million to spend delaying project launches) suggests the redundancies were people too busy doing productive work to produce job-saving Powerpoint presentations on how they were enhancing stakeholder value by synergising workflow processes.


To be fair, it was only £25 million


I'm sorry, what's a Color?


A wavelength of light, as spelled by Mr Noah Webster during the Great Vowel Shortage of 1783.


Worst. Spelling reform. Ever.


At least he didn't change "bridegroom" to "bridegoom" so it was spelled the way it was pronounced. Apparently the pronunciation has changed back again.





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