This article is written as some kind of drunken rant, desperately holding on to overly formed opinions and 2 validating points of data.
That's not to say that the author doesn't have a point, it's almost certainly true, but Salon should have really had an editor look over this. For crying out loud, he shifts between 14k and 140k employees for Kodak in the article.
How will readers who do not already agree w/ him become convinced?