{"id":22565,"date":"2011-03-11T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22565"},"modified":"2011-03-11T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T18:00:33","slug":"evil-employer-lays-off-900-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22565","title":{"rendered":"Evil employer lays off 900 employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always hearing the Left complain that evil employers completely disregard the families, the children, their poor employees when they get laid-off from work purely for improving profits. I wonder how much traction those complaints would have against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2011\/03\/aol-cuts-900-jobs\/\">Arianna Huffington<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As usual, Armstrong and Huffington are waxing on about investing in high-quality, original content produced by actual journalists. But AOL staffers have heard that one before, so the renewed pledge comes across as a little hollow, especially given that dozens of veteran journalists are being let go.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very difficult for Huffington to argue credibly that she plans to invest in original journalism at the very same time that she and Armstrong are giving dozens of veteran reporters the old heave-ho. Despite a few high-profile hires and her stable of well-publicized celebrity bloggers, HuffPo has always been focused on aggregation and voluminous content from unpaid writers.<\/p>\n<p>As New York Times executive editor Bill Keller pungently observed: \u201cBuying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company\u2019s announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, oh, 700 of those jobs that were eliminated were in India. So Huffington was outsourcing overseas? Isn&#8217;t that one of the touchstone no-nos of the Left?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always hearing the Left complain that evil employers completely disregard the families, the children, their &hellip; <a title=\"Evil employer lays off 900 employees\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22565\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evil employer lays off 900 employees<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}