Recently, I came across a lot of news roaming about disastrous DAWN and its shut down. I am very disappointed to know why people are in a state of shock. It is such old news, after all.
I remember how in early 2009, one of my friend sent me an email directed from DAWN News Editor to the departments. I was astonished and thankful at the same time. Why thankful? They spared the needy . Astonishment came to me because of the way they cut down their expenses. Have a look at excerpt from it:
“We have had to resort to more than one measure to rationalize the size of the work force and save costs. We are proposing a pay cut of 5 per cent (for colleagues on salaries between 50,000 and 100,000) to 10 percent (above 100,000) at our three major broadcast centres – Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore. Colleagues on salaries below 50,000 will not face a cut. Other team members have agreed bigger cuts which go into effect on April 1, 2009.”
Now what does it actually tell you guys?
They were on the brinks already. This email above created chaos among the top level employees, the 50 below remained contented and still are I suppose, after reading Café Pyala.
Soon, very soon, media will grieve the death of DAWN.
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