Oregon Media Insiders

This is hardly a scoop. It has been known for months that a buyout is coming as the paper faces the tough economy that all newspapers are battling. The only new news yesterday was Fred Stickel offering specific numbers. Numbers, by the way, that have been reported incorrectly before on this blog and by Willy Week, which has a well-known inability to report anything accurately about the O. (Wouldn't want them to have to put truth in the way of their agenda.) In addition, what Stickel said -- also consistent with previous statements -- is that part-timers do not have the job guarantee full-timers do. In fact, he said he could solve his problems by laying off all the part-timers, but he won't do that. Please remember that as layoffs are commonplace around newspapers, there have been none at The O and none are contemplated. It is a sad day at the paper, but people here know we work in a special place and at a special paper.