Last week, the Chicago Sun-Times made national headlines for laying off its entire photography staff, and moving to relying on freelancers, while teaching its reporters "iPhone photography basics." All of which has made the newspaper a perfect target for America's favorite satirist, Stephen Colbert.
During last night's Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Colbert took took the paper to task for its assumption that trained photographers can be replaced by a journalist with an iPhone, saying:
"But the paper will continue to have...
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