Keller: "The idea that you can do 'more with less' is one of the four great lies"

Nieman Journalism Lab

Times executive editor Bill Keller told his staff last week: "I don't know who will take the buyouts, and I don't want to suggest that any department is completely immune, but believe we can get to 100 slots without anything so drastic as reducing Metro coverage or downsizing the Sports section -- and I believe it would be unwise, at a time when we are asking readers to pay a premium price for our work, to give them conspicuously less of it."
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