The job posting for a news blog manager at the LA Weekly calls for someone "who can break news, crack skulls as quickly as funny bones and develop a blog that every person in Los Angeles will visit day in, day out." Ah, one more requirement: "reaching and surpassing weekly pageview goals."
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