Smith: More Paper Cuts, This Time Seattle

But the impact on journalism is devastating. As with The Spokesman, the journalists remaining at The Times will be among the best anywhere. Their work will be first rate. But there will be less of it and the community will lose something important as a result. Honest editors and publishers will not pretend otherwise. But count on it, the marketing spinmeisters will continue to blather about leaner, meaner, more efficient newspapers that better meet customer needs, are faster reads, easier to hold and handle and other such nonsense. That may be good marketing, but it isn’t good journalism and it won’t serve the interests of community/ Steve Smith , Still A Newspaperman. More here .

Question: What will be the net effect of all the staff reductions in the country’s newspapers?