Tuesday 16 December 2008

FP re layoffs

The Financial Post sums up what Sun Media employees feared when PKP replaced Michael Sifton as Sun Media chief less than two months ago:

"It didn't take long for Pierre-Karl PĂ©ladeau to assert himself at Sun Media."

Indeed, it didn't. Before today, there had already been 13 staffers cut at the Kingston Whig-Standard and the Toronto Sun and the London Free Press axed its Sunday edition.

Perhaps Sifton, who was a calming presence for shell-shocked Sun Media employees following eight years of slicing and dicing, didn't agree with the need for massive layoffs.

Whatever, Sun sources called that Nov. 7 announcement by PKP Black Friday.

Now, Black Tuesday.

The remaining Day Oners who launched the Toronto Sun on Nov. 1, 1971, must be shaking their heads and shedding a tear watching all of their efforts fade to black.

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