*This* should help revive the floundering newspaper business…

Author, humorist and blogger James Lilek has just be reassigned by his newspaper, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.  They’ve cancelled his column and reassigned him to work the local newsbeat.

The Strib has long had a reputation as an epically clueless institution, but WOW.  That’s all I can say to that.  By the time enough people cancel their subscriptions to wise them up, I fully expect Lileks to have a better paying job somewhere else.