...But you already knew this.

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Insightful. The hat could really represent any job at a newspaper - journalist especially. The metaphor has particular poignancy today, as the New York Times Co. has threatened to shut down The Boston Globe. Journalists across the country are chained to newspapers and their parent companies and advertisers, waiting to sink in the global economic downturn. But according to the Wall Street Journal, they may be able to recover:

The [Boston Globe] ultimatum doesn't necessarily ensure that the 137-year-old daily will close. In recent months, other publishers have achieved significant cost savings by issuing similar threats to unprofitable dailies such as the Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., and the San Francisco Chronicle.

But even if that does not destroy them, the Internet's glacial reign is nigh. Content distribution models are changing. But that's okay, because it's the dinosaurs that are going down (just a few will probably adapt and survive), and it's the choice of journalists as to whether they want to go down with them.