Look at this...wow.
Posted on 07/17/2008 1:40:34 PM PDT by abb
More than 300 Palm Beach Post employees have applied for buyouts and all have been accepted, according to an internal memo obtained by the Pulp.
Though the newspaper announced it would cut 300 jobs, there will be additional layoffs. According to the memo:
The number of applications was more than expected. However, we received too many in some areas and not enough in others, So we still expect to begin a small number of involuntary separations, or layoffs, the week of Aug. 18 in some departments as needed. Thanks to all who applied. You have greatly reduced the number of involuntary separations needed. Your contribution to PBNI over the years and your dedication and patience during these recent difficult times is greatly appreciated.
Those layoffs, according to sources, are expected to hit the newsroom, which had 81 buyout applications by the initial deadline on Friday. The newspaper plans to cut a total of 130 from the newsroom. Sources say that since the Friday dealine, several newsroom staffers have applied for the buyout and been accepted. The buyouts become official on August 11.
The losses in the newsroom are staggering. What follows is the updated list of those who have been accepted for the buyout, now standing at 41 names:
-- Political Editor Brian Crowley -- Reporter Tim O'Meilia -- 'Listening Post" columnist and ombudsman C.B. Hanif -- Accent columnist and society photog Thom Smith -- 'Real Life' columnist Emily J. Minor -- Assistant Metro Editor (and author) Douglas Kalajian -- Deputy Director of Photography John J. Lopinot -- Crime writer Rochelle Gilken -- Editorial writer Elisa Cramer -- Golf writer Craig Dolch -- Assistant Managing Editor Bill Greer -- Washington Bureau Chief Larry Lipman -- Business writer Steve Pounds -- Multimedia Editor Mary Kate Leming -- Business (Real Estate) Columnist Linda Rawls -- High school sports writer Steve Dorsey -- Cartoonist and Creative Director Pat Crowley -- West Palm Beach reporter Tom Collins -- Reporter Kelly Wolfe -- Reporter Antigone Barton -- Food Editor Jan Norris -- Riviera Beach reporter William Cooper, Jr. -- Accent/Health reporter Carolyn Susman -- Reporter Ron Hayes -- Reporter Rachel Sauer -- Movie/Theater Critic Hap Erstein -- Art Critic Gary Schwan -- Transportation reporter Chuck McGinness -- Delray Bureau Chief Price Patton -- Videographer Susan Miller -- Photographer Chris Matula -- Photographer Bob Shanley -- St. Lucie County reporter Jim Reeder -- Port St. Lucie Bureau Chief Teresa Lane -- Martin County Bureau Chief Glenn Henderson -- Martin County crime reporter Jill Taylor -- Courts reporter Sarah Prohaska -- Treasure Coast photo chief Paul Milette -- Photographer David Spencer -- Opinion writer Sally Swartz -- Reporter Michelle Mundy
ping
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080804/alterman
I Read the News Today... Oh Boy
http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2008/07/private-time-for-gci-lee-mni-and-nyt.html
‘Private’ time for GCI, LEE, MNI and NYT?
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_adctlid=v|jq2q43wvsl855o|x9lguq8fuis5i3&issueId=x9l87obp95coxd&xid=x9lda4onav4yrf
Will non-profit foundations save political journalism?
How big is this paper? It’s amazing how many people these papers employ. Maybe that’s part of their problem.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080804/alterman
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“Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian recently suggested to me that universities might attach a small fee to their students’ tuition—like an activities fee—to pay for the newspaper subscription of their choice. This would improve the newspapers’ bottom line, give their advertisers access to a coveted demographic and, if successful, would inculcate in the students the habit of newspaper reading as they approach maturity as voting citizens.”
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Wow. The Marxism surfaces once the money pinch hits, doesn’t it?
Just a foretaste of things to come. Look for taxpayer subsidies of newspapers (except the WSJ of course) if Obama is elected. We'll be told they're essential to a democracy.
I Read the News Today... Oh Boy
... the loss of daily newspapers is a significant threat to the future of our democracyts
It’s big. And it’s very liberal with few exceptions unfortunately.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003828977
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003828949
‘Orlando Sentinel’ Quietly Cutting Newsroom Staff
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003828975
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003828958
Moody’s Warns Of Gannett Credit Downgrade
““Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian recently suggested to me that universities might attach a small fee to their students’ tuition—like an activities fee—to pay for the newspaper subscription of their choice. This would improve the newspapers’ bottom line, give their advertisers access to a coveted demographic and, if successful, would inculcate in the students the habit of newspaper reading as they approach maturity as voting citizens.”
As you know, this has been done for years out here in Kaliforniacator Land. Besides Kalifornicator fishwraps, the big winner in this prepaid bs has been the NY Slimes.
you know, if I were one of those people I’d take that buyout check straight to the bank and cash it before the ink on it dried...at the rate the MSM is going, their checks will be worthless soon enough....I could care less about the lefty scribblers at the paper, but some poor pressman who’s hearing is gone after 30 years around the machines; well, I kinda feel sorry for him....hope he makes out OK.
The thinking reading public is rebelling. Same thing happening to the AJC in Georgia....why? Well, you can only print what really comes out of your a$$ and say it comes from your mouth and brain for a limited time -— eventually people will catch on to the truth.
... Here’s what I haven’t seen discussed: Why are all the highly paid old white male columnists and critics still in the game? They make much more money than everyone else, and they’re redundant. Everyone knows this, especially them. Everyone wonders what pact with the devil they seem to have. ...Allow me to clear things up. Walter Lippmann (the eminent columnist who spoke for the American political elite and urged Franklin Delano Roosevelt to assume dictatorial powers) proclaims newsprint holy scripture.
The news of the day as it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day. Now the power to determine each day what shall seem important and what shall be neglected is a power unlike any that has been exercised since the Pope lost his hold on the secular mind.Ben Bradlee (Washington Post editor of Watergate infamy) joins Lippmann in worshiping the false god of man.
JIM LEHRER: Ben Bradlee is one of America's most famous newspaper editors and he believes the practice of journalism is more than a job.Arthur Sulzberger Jr, publisher of the New York Times joins the unholy chorus.
BEN BRADLEE: I don't mean to sound arrogant, but we're in a holy profession.
I have the Times; that's my religion; that's what I believe in,
50 percent of journalists [say] they have no religion, and some 80 percent rarely ever [go] to church.
Look at this...wow.
OH MY GOD! No more art critic?
.........Art Critic Gary Schwan ......
Oh no!! Not Gary Schwan.
What will we do with out him?
The Palm Beach Post,
not quite as bad as the Sun Sentinel.
That’s it, the best ya can say about this liberal lying rag.
I canceled my subscription to my local paper today because it is leaning more and more to the left. The person I spoke to didn’t seem too surprised when I gave her my reason.
Madness? This is Palm Beach!
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