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Merc's cost cutting means no free turkeys

According to San Jose’s alt-weekly, Metro, employees at the San Jose Mercury News will no longer get free turkeys as part of a cost-saving move. “Things have hit such a low point at the Mercury News, which is owned by the $5 billion Knight Ridder corporation, whose stock was riding a five-year high last spring, that employees have again begun calling the paper by its in-house nickname, the ‘Murky News,'” says Metro.

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