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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.

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.

Labels: news, Spokane, Spokesman-Revew

Mayor Hession's Son Works for Living

Call in the ethics committee! Call in the crack investigative reporters! (Oh. They were laid off? Okay. Then put Morlin on it.) Send in the clowns!

Patrick Hession is working as a paramedic in Spokane, where AMR has an exclusive contract to provide ambulance service within the city, AMR regional manager Art McKiernan confirmed Tuesday. [From SR.com: Hession's son paramedic for AMR ]

I'm not absolutely certain, but I believe the news in this news story is that the mayor's son has a ... (*gasp*) ... a job!

Damn him for not being a layabout like the rest of the mayoral sons in this country. Did he get the letter? Doesn't he have any sense of duty? Of responsibility?

What is this city coming to. First beekeeping, now this. Honestly.

Still no word on whether the mayor's son had saved any lives while "taking people to the hospital and talking [sic] care of the sick."

Also no word from the Review on what they've been able to dig up on Verner (or her pets) should she capture the job in November.

Labels: news, Spokane, Spokesman-Revew

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