Blame Dan Rather

The old media death spiral continues unabated.

CBS reduces TV stations' news staffs

LOS ANGELES - CBS-owned TV stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago are reducing their news staffs. The cuts include two well-known anchors in Los Angeles, five on-air veterans in San Francisco and one of Chicago's highest-paid anchors.

About a dozen news staffers will depart KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV in Los Angeles, according to a person who works at one of the CBS-owned stations and requested anonymity because policy prohibits disclosing personnel matters.

The person told The Associated Press on Tuesday that longtime anchors Ann Martin and Harold Greene will leave when their contracts expire in May. Others, including reporters Jennifer Sabih and Jennifer Davis, were laid off Monday.

Technical staff was also trimmed, the person said.

Of course they blame the economy.

"It was our decision in these economic times to try to go forward and do the best as we could with our stations," said Monifa.

Maybe if you had a better product things would be brighter.

"We have to rethink how we do business," Ahern told the newspaper.

Try being honest, for starters.

Dead tree media feels their pain.

Courage.