I don't feel guilty for being part of the technological forces which cause shifts, but I feel a tremendous anger towards those who exploit it with their greed and lies.

Our one and only local daily newspaper just laid off a third of their staff (almost 50% from the news desk) and is going to printing just three days a week. Of course they blame this on technology - advertising revenue is trending down as advertisers take their money online - and claim that they won't be able to be profitable in the future without these changes.

However, we have been told that the paper is currently profitable. Also we are told that we will see more "robust" news coverage online.

It's a lot of lies, because their affiliated web site has always been pretty poor.

It seems like the whole community is now paying the cost of their bad business decisions in organizing their separate online affiliate in the first place which kept the content producers as part of the paper, and now they are killing many of them them off and hoping a merger into the online-only presence will actually work.

So I don't feel guilt. I feel anger at being told by "business" people things which don't end up being true, or end up showing their incompetence or greed or criminal behavior under the guise of a "business decision" or "best for the business". To many of these people, technology is just another tool in an agenda which is despicable.