Still Only Fifty Cents!

From your Chicago Tribune:

Chicago Sun-Times executives told the newsroom today that 40 positions would be eliminated, including 35 union reporters, columnists and section editors and five non-union management positions, sources at the paper said Friday.

You need at least five human beings to put together a basketball team. You can play hoops with fewer bodies, but it won't be a real basketball team.

The Sun-Times is rapidly approaching the absolute minimum number of humans necessary to put together a newspaper. They can still go to press with fewer bodies, but it won't be a real newspaper.