This looks like a good time to remind everyone that I’d be a New York Times columnist for a third of what they’re paying the guys they’ve got now.

Via Malkin: Times Says It Will Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs

The New York Times plans to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs — about 8 percent of the total — by year’s end, offering buyouts to union and non-union employees, and resorting to layoffs if it cannot get enough people to leave voluntarily, the paper announced on Monday.

I was also going to remind these guys that I was a reporter before I was a blogger, too, just in case they really start throwing $70K salaries at internet reporters (right after the polka-dot unicorns pass a bill making Monopoly money into real legal tender), but with all those NYT guys hitting the streets, I wonder if a small-town radio guy like me could even compete?

Or is that too much false modesty?

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