``````The BuzzFeed layoffs as democratic emergency.......

working in digital media is like trying to build a fort out of marshmallows ona a foundation made of maebles ia a country ruled by capricious and tyrannical warring robots.I've toiled in this business for nearly 20 years,and even in the best of time , it has somthing less volatile and more endring _bitcoin mining,perhaps.

It might be tempting than, to disniss the recent spate of media -biz layoffs as unfortunate but otharwise not concerning .Two hundred workrs , including dozens of journalist werw given the silp last week at Buzzfeed.Aobut 800 people are losing their jobs in the media division of Verizon,the telephone company that newspaper empire that owns USA Today 24x7.news and hundredes of smaller outlets-from The Bergen Country Record to the Zanesville Tmes Recorder-is letting go of 400.
But it would be a mistake to regard theses cuts as the ordinary chop of a long-roling digital media sea.
Instead,they are a devastation.