Volume 56, Number 13 · August 13, 2009 <http://www.nybooks.com/contents/20090813> The News About the Internet By Michael Massing <http://www.nybooks.com/authors/71> Of all the dismal and discouraging numbers to have emerged from the world of newspapers---the sharp plunges in circulation, the dizzying fall-off in revenues, the burgeoning debt, the mounting losses---none seems as sobering as the relentless march of layoffs and buyouts. According to the blog Paper Cuts, newspapers lost 15,974 jobs in 2008 and another 10,000 in the first half of 2009. That's 26,000 fewer reporters, editors, photographers, and columnists to cover the world, analyze political and economic affairs, root out corruption and abuse, and write about culture, entertainment, and sports. [....] Segue: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22960