Granted, the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer picked up stories from different papers (the former turned to The Washington Post, and the latter pulled from The New York Times) to report yesterday’s grim job-cut numbers, but that doesn’t change the fact that they’re reporting vastly different figures. The Times says it’s 55,000, and the P-I says it’s 40,000. A careful reading of the Times / Post story hints that they may be including international employment numbers in their calculations, but headline-skimmers would never know, which just hammers home the fact that the loss of news outlets in the Puget Sound area can only be a bad thing … even when we’re talking about news that paranoid workers with tenuous employment status would probably just as soon not know.