Spokesman Staff Infection

When a high-profile business in a mid-size city with a "struggling business model" lays off 30 employees, where do you expect to find that news in the newspaper? Apparently, when the high-profile business is the mid-size city is the newspaper itself, you find it on A8.

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The Spokesman-Review intends to lay off about 30 employees and has offered early retirement incentives as the newspaper fights a struggling business model. [From SR.com: S-R plans to cut staffing ]

To be fair, A8 is actually the front of the business section, but it's still sitting in a single column pushed off to the side like the bastard nephew of your third cousin's sister's boyfriend at the family home-brew fest and picnic. Alas, this appears to be one of "Good Paper's" great eye-brow-knitting troubles... where to put news about itself...

Maybe I'm wrong, but personally I find A8 kind of insulting to S-R readers. Or, at the very least, insulting to me.

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