More from Lean Dean

What's the offer? If it's two weeks per year of service -- and I don't know if it is, I just know that's somewhat standard -- and you have 13 or more years in, wouldn't it be pretty good to lock in six months' pay? I always say this pre-supposing that people are looking for their exit strategies, but that sounds like an opportunity as much as anything else. And if you're so committed to the biz that you couldn't ever see yourself leaving voluntarily, God help you, but I don't think it's going to end well for you.

If this is some bullshit "buyout" that really isn't much of a buyout but is just a precursor to layoffs, then never mind.

 

It's Singleton.

He often doesn't seek to meet the "standard" for buyouts.

 

Oh I'm well aware of that history. Just asking what the terms are.

Also, though, is this still Singleton? I thought when they pushed him aside he was removed from decisions like this.

 

Reading this makes me want to spill out a whole long string of profanities.

 

I think this is going to start a trend. It is difficult to figure out what the circulation of a MediaNews paper is, given the corporate ability to game the circ statistics. So year to year comparisons are hard to make. But I think the industry will be looking at this closely and anticipate others moving that way, especially if Media News expands the practice to other papers.

 

Singleton already doing this in Detroit, of course, with the New (in concert with Gannett and Free Press).

 

Yeah - it's not like Raider fans know how to read anyway.

 

Raider fans will read the stories on their silver-and-black iPads.

 

More cutbacks yesterday, mostly through layoffs:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/151806/bay-area-news-group-lays-off-medianews/

 

Yeah, who wants to read a sports section on a Monday anyway.