Soulless and robotic, to be sure. And eerily so. But what else should we expect from the owners of a news portal that was, from the outset, itself nothing oth

Soulless and robotic, to be sure. And eerily so. But what else should we expect from the owners of a news portal that was, from the outset, itself nothing other than soulless and robotic, to its very core -- and whose passing almost no one is likely to mourn? ("No one", that is, except of course those who've recently found out they "no longer have a role with Patch", along with their unlucky dependents).