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"So we're looking at a steady decline over a long period, and many of the geniuses who run our business believe they have a solution. Our product isn't selling as well as it used to, so they think we need to cut the number of reporters, cut the space devoted to the news and cut the amount of money used to gather the news, and this will solve the problem. For some reason, they assume people will want to buy more newspapers if they have less news in them and are less useful to people. I'm just amazed the Bush administration hasn't named the whole darn bunch of them to run FEMA yet."

-- Columnist MollyIvins, commenting on the propensity of newspaper owners to cut staff in the face of eroding business, mainly due to the internet.

"I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying," she said, " -- it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off."