Aww.. now that is a bit sad. Barely two weeks after laying off 35 editorial staff members, SCMP has now decided to sack its award winning multimedia team as well. These were the folks responsible for little videos like these and were assumed by many to stay put with the world’s focus on web 2.0 and shit.

Obviously it’s no surprise that the old media has taken a beating the past few years, yet many stubborn fossils continue to think that traditional ways of getting information will remain superior. But back to SCMP. An article here from Asia Sentinel on the most recent wave of lay-offs provides some interesting inside info. An anonymous, ‘well-placed sub-editor’ is quoted saying for example:

“The real problem is that there are too many people there who are doing nothing. Reporters are filing one story a week,” one staffer said. “There are subs who handle one story a day. There are heads of departments who can’t run their desks. There are editors who literally can’t read or write.”

Surely the pro-establishment muppets from the Standard are enjoying this, as well as its former managing editor John Berthelsen who is responsible for the piece on Asia Sentinel (and its founding editor). And who could blame them? SCMP has for years stolen employees from its slutty little cousin in the hopes of crushing her, yet to no avail.

With SCMP slowly fading and the Standard’s ridiculous 1998 website, we hereby like to appeal to the social media douchebags of this world to throw themselves at the Standard, as it’s far from ready for the “new” digital era of journalism. All 15.740 of them!