Paramount, the Parent Company of CBS, Set to Lay Off "Hundreds"
LA Times Begins Sending Out Pinkslips to 25% of Its "Workers"

Remember that time I accidentally posted porn?

Whoops, I'm doing it again.

Paramount Global is cutting "hundreds" of media workers.

Learn to... do anything of use.

Paramount Global -- the parent company off CBS, Paramount Pictures, Showtime, and numerous other media properties -- is reportedly set to lay off "hundreds" of employees across nearly all of its divisions.

The impending cuts represent the latest Hollywood bloodbath following layoffs at other corporations, including Disney, NBCUniversal, Amazon MGM Studios, and Universal Music Group.

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Last year, Paramount slashed 25 percent of its employees across multiple media properties. As part of the reductions, it shut down MTV News.

The Breitbart article notes that Hollywood, which of course paid millions to install Joe Biden as president, is being destroyed due to the terrible consumer sentiment caused by Joe Biden's economy. Ad rates are trash and people are cutting out unnecessary expenditures -- like, for streaming services, like Paramount, they don't really need or even like all that much.

That reminds me, I have to cancel HBO and Hulu (which I got to inflate the amount of money Disney has to pay Comcast) and Peacock (which I got for Office reruns).

The free services Pluto, Tubi, and FreeVee have more than enough content for most people.

Meanwhile:

Ben Mullin @BenMullin

News: Employees at the Los Angeles Times are beginning to be notified that they are being laid off.
11:05 AM Jan 23, 2024

The LA Times prog idiots had staged a walkout to protest the coming layoffs. Apparently that did not work, and now they're being told they're fired. I mean, "Laid off."

(Fani Willis just emailed me to say, "I'd rather be laid on than laid off." She included a picture of Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq.'s shlong, for some reason. First time a woman sent me a dicpic. She then appended a postscript: "PS I know nothing at all about why the guy who I'm riding like I'm Luke Perry in 8 Seconds ended his marriage. Stop being so racist, Racist.")

Matt Pearce @mattdpearce L.A. Times management has notified me that 94 @latguild members are being notified of intended layoff today, or about one-fourth of our whole membership.

This total, while devastating, is nonetheless far lower than the total number of Guild layoffs initially expected last week.

They're claiming that 25% of the staff being slashed is a victory for the union?!! What would a loss be, exactly?

Maybe the LA Times is losing money because it has entered the "morbidly obese transgender 'model' centerfolds" phase of its decline:

Formerly of Buzzfeed "News."

Michael Malice @michaelmalice

IDEA

let's send all the striking @latimes journalists to Gaza.

they're very good at solving social problems and never exacerbating them, so sending them there would save many lives and bring peace

@latguild i'll happily pay the airfare for the first one

#GuildToGaza

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