Eventually They Will Peel Our Flesh

to use as pool-liners.

Of course, if pressed at, perhaps, a Davos media mogul bukkake roundtable on, oh, let's say, the Future of Post-industrial Media Ecosystems and Integrated Wisdom Vector Visioneering they'll make a little moue and explain how they rilly, rilly regret it, but times are tough and sacrifices have to be made and it's whole new world now and where the fuck is that intern with my latte and a big sack of free content I can used to pad out my cash cow bold, new direction in journalism?

From Media Bistro:

WaPo Staffers Pissed at Publisher’s Paycheck
By Alec Jacobs on March 25, 2011 4:54 PM

WaPo‘s 2010 SEC filings were released this week. In a year when the newspaper saw tough cuts in staff, publisher Katharine Weymouth (granddaughter of famed Post publisher Katharine Graham) earned $537,000 and a bonus of $483,750, plus an additional $1,053,441 based on a pre-established long-term pay plan. She’s also getting a 16.5% raise in her 2011 salary. Not too shabby. Except that now, staffers at WaPo are…displeased.
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And from "Broadcast News"...24 long years ago.


Because everything old and filthy is new and even filthier again.