The headline screams:
“U.S. media jobs slashed 88 percent”
The actual story reads:
CHICAGO, Jan. 25 (UPI [1]) — U.S. media job cuts surged 88 percent in 2006 from the previous year, a downsizing trend expected to continue this year, a survey said Thursday.
The media industry slashed 17,809 jobs last year, a nearly two-fold increase from the 9,453 cuts in 2005, outplacement consultancy Challenger Gray & Christmas said.
Evidently editors and proof readers were hardest hit.