Let ’Em Eat Cake

“For all their bluster and outward crustiness, newspaper people can be delicate flowers who have trouble doing their jobs when they believe that they are under threat. The directionality of the business — are we going up or are we going down? — is a kind of destiny. For years at The Post, and elsewhere in the industry, so many goodbye cakes were ordered that it became a verb: caking.” 

—David Carr (1956-2015), media reporter, “The Washington Post Regains Its Place at the Table,” The New York Times, Oct. 5, 2014. Image: The disappearing Denver Post.

• Editorial Comment: There are still a lot of cakes, but fewer and fewer recipients

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