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Talking Biz News
That's Bernie Kohn's advice. The Baltimore Sun assistant managing editor says: "Most of us in the business editing business, I believe, now face two choices: Cut listings your way, or wait for the bean counters to cut them their way. It’s the latter that threatens the continuing existence of business sections. Bean counters see anything falling into the category of ‘commodity content’ as utterly disposable, and there is no winning intellectual argument to be made with them ... that agate is not commodity content. So if you try to continue as is, you run the risk of all of those pages simply being eliminated by fiat. No agate, for most of us, means no section."