Posted on 12/28/2011 8:32:21 AM PST by Nachum
The rocky, rickety boat that is the New York times has long been in peril of sinking. Now the Times staffers have sent a letter to publisher Arthur Sulzberger expressing "profound dismay" at the direction the company is headed.
Huffington Post:
The letter calls attention to several grievances. Last week, Times brass notified foreign citizens employed in the paper's overseas bureaus that their pensions would be frozen. In the letter, Times staffers dismayed by this decision point out to Sulzberger that some of these foreign employees, working alongside Times reporters in war zones, have "risked their lives so that we can do our jobs."
The open letter may have been prompted by this and other recent decisions, but it brought to the surface long-simmering tensions. In the past several years, staffers have faced temporary pay cuts, layoffs, and buyouts. They have worked since March without a new contract. Regarding ongoing negotiations, the letter notes that Sulzberger's "negotiators have demanded a freeze of our pension plan and an end to our independent health insurance." O'Meara said staffers did not receive a raise this year.
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HMMM..... The presstitutes are disgruntled with the madam. What’s worse, the Old Gray Whore is shown to be syphilitic.
All the news that’s fit for room temperature.
Calor ambiens tyrannis.
Let them all eat from dumpsters.
I look forward to seeing the same destruction of FOX news.
The first thing Carlos Slim is going to do is convert 50% of the editorial NYT product to the Huffington Post model of using slave labor.
The cost savings will be used to fund the NYT outstanding pension obligations.
The staff at the NYTimes are all life-long committed leftists.
They thnk that there’s money somewhere so that they can all be paid even though no one wants to pay to read their drivel.
Hope they all end up unemployed and their pensions lost to the NYTimes’ bankruptcy.
May they all kill each other!
Have some compassion -
Donate to the "Guns and Cutlasses For NY Times Mutineers" fund today.
Meanwhile, its once minor suburban counterpart, the Tribune-Review has moved in from the suburbs to scoop up subscribers, a television station, several radio stations and acquire and/or create other regional newspapers and specialty publications. Its on-line content is free and, what's more, it is actually making money to support this expansion.
What's the key difference in the business models between the Tribune-Review and the Post Gazette?
Well, I can't say for sure. But the Tribune-Review does actual reporting even if it sometimes drifts into crazy Pat Buchanan/Ron Paul worldviews on some of its editorial positions. The Post-Gazette, OTOH, faithfully serves up your usual liberal pablum. They cannot seem to figure out if there is any connection.
Awesome!! Schadenfreude BUMP!
I hope all of those “staffers” lose their jobs, their homes, their life savings, and their families. For the damage they and their Democrat newsroom have done to America over the past several decades they deserve nothing less. The ironic part about all this is that the New York Times’ impending death is a slow, excruciating death, much like the state-sanctioned starvation murder of Terri Schiavo that the liberals enjoyed so much.
“A suggestion for the Slimes... try reporting NEWS without a slant for a change. Youd be surprised at the money youll make doing that.”
Please don’t give Pinch any good ideas. this turd is taking it’s final turns around the bowl and we don’t want anything to slow the death spiral. Besides, it will be fun to watch Pinch’s relatives (you know all the worthless trust fund kids who haven’t worked a day in their lives) hang him in the public square for pi$$ing away their “inheritances!” As for the angst of the Slimes employees, ask me if I give a rats’ a$$; they’ve sold out their country to Marxism!
Finally. News that’s fit to print.
If this list is any indication of the FAT on their payroll no wonder they are falling off a cliff!
IF - if - if - "the prize" newspapers coveted was the respect and loyalty of their readers RATHER than a Pulitzer - or assorted lamer ego prizes - their papers would still be prospering. Reporters at the New York Times are right about their grievances... they just don't go far enough.
I still subscribe to my hometown paper but haven't opened it in over a week...
Instead of being rewarded by going to heaven and enjoying sex with 72 virgins they can have sex with some whiny liberal homosexual or lesbian. Or else some liberal slut.
Always wondered what happened to old Stu Nudelman.
Nigella Lawson, perchance?
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Hey...NYT...keep a few no-nonsense reporters, providing real news reporting, instead of a bunch of starry-eyed idealist, agenda-driven journolisters trying to "make a difference". Maybe you'll survive.
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