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Which means, I guess, that the layoff on February 20 of marketing director Tony Barnett was significant only to Barnett. “I’m still reeling from it,” he told me Friday. He’d been at TOC since it was launched in 2004. “I think they’re cutting back to a lean mean machine,” said Barnett. “I think obviously expectations aren’t being met.”
And I’ve just received an exclusive e-mail from the Chicago Tribune telling me that as of April 4, the TV guide will move tofrom the Saturday fromto the Sunday paper. “As a benefit of being a Subscriber Advantage member, you are the first to be notified of this change,” the Tribune confides, explaining the change “was designed to give you more time to plan your TV schedule as well as allow us to provide you with more accurate and up-to-date TV listings.” No mention of the savings in printing costs from switching from the most- to the least-read paper of the week.
