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NY Times staffers near mutiny as paper continues to slide into oblivion
American Thinker ^ | 12/28/11 | Rick Moran

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: carlosslim; dbm; eljefe; mutiny; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; ny; staffers; times
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To: Nachum

HMMM..... The presstitutes are disgruntled with the madam. What’s worse, the Old Gray Whore is shown to be syphilitic.


41 posted on 12/28/2011 9:01:48 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: Nachum

All the news that’s fit for room temperature.

Calor ambiens tyrannis.


42 posted on 12/28/2011 9:02:41 AM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Nachum

Let them all eat from dumpsters.

I look forward to seeing the same destruction of FOX news.


43 posted on 12/28/2011 9:03:13 AM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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To: Harley

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.


44 posted on 12/28/2011 9:05:27 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: Nachum

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.


45 posted on 12/28/2011 9:07:06 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: E.K. Crossbow

May they all kill each other!

Have some compassion -

Donate to the "Guns and Cutlasses For NY Times Mutineers" fund today.


46 posted on 12/28/2011 9:08:16 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: jimbo123
We have an interesting thing going on in the Pittsburgh region. The Post-Gazette which owned the town for years has been hemorrhaging subscribers to such an extent that it is now trying to virtually give away the print edition and charge for premium on-line content with little success. Last year, it was forced to sell the naming rights for a large concert venue to an out of town bank moving into the Pittsburgh region which it had owned since its inception.

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.

47 posted on 12/28/2011 9:14:24 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Nachum
Expressing profound dismay at the direction the paper is heading?

Dear Emperor Hirohito: I am at the controls of a modified Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (Type 1 Fighter) with a pair of BOMBS attached to my wings. I am drawing all kinds of enemy flak as I approach American ships. Can you please get me out of this? Sincerely yours, Flying Low in Nakajima
48 posted on 12/28/2011 9:15:18 AM PST by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine)
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To: Nachum

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.


49 posted on 12/28/2011 9:16:30 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Keith in Iowa

“A suggestion for the Slimes... try reporting NEWS without a slant for a change. You’d be surprised at the money you’ll 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!


50 posted on 12/28/2011 9:16:37 AM PST by vette6387 (Enough Already!)
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To: Nachum

Finally. News that’s fit to print.


51 posted on 12/28/2011 9:17:40 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: jimbo123

If this list is any indication of the FAT on their payroll no wonder they are falling off a cliff!


52 posted on 12/28/2011 9:18:03 AM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: Nachum
...isn't this sort of like the passengers of the Titanic sending a letter to the captain complaining about the lack of porters to carry their luggage to the lifeboats?

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...

53 posted on 12/28/2011 9:18:09 AM PST by GOPJ (Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred - Proverbs 15)
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To: Nachum
NYT employees are like suicide bombers. They are willing to destroy their careers and even their lives in order to hurt America.

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.

54 posted on 12/28/2011 9:22:14 AM PST by detective
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To: jimbo123

Always wondered what happened to old Stu Nudelman.


55 posted on 12/28/2011 9:22:24 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: 1776 Reborn
If this list is any indication of the FAT on their payroll no wonder they are falling off a cliff!

Exactly. These people are toast and will never even have the opportunity to call Carlos Slim "Boss".
56 posted on 12/28/2011 9:23:09 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: DManA

Nigella Lawson, perchance?


57 posted on 12/28/2011 9:25:45 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (There are two kinds of people: those who divide people into two kinds and those who don't.)
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To: Nachum
Hey, they earned it.


58 posted on 12/28/2011 9:34:21 AM PST by Lady Jag (Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught)
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59 posted on 12/28/2011 9:34:24 AM PST by Baynative (The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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To: jimbo123
Gee...I wonder if their past success has resulted in a bloated staff...

Unit Chair, Culture backfield editor, Contract writer, Pagination(X4), News Designer, Co-chief Film Critic, Home-Page Producer, Staff Editor-Magazine Research, Photo Producer, Denver bureau, Assistant Desk Head, Culture, Retired correspondent and blogger, Television critic, Web Editor-Foreign Desk, Culture Reporter, United Nations correspondent, Former Detroit Bureau Chief, Former Unit Chair, Environment reporter, Culture reporter and former Foreign Correspondent, Culture News Assistant, Design Manager, Assistant Foreign Editor, Co-chief art critic, Culture Reporter, Community Moderator, Mobile Politics Editor, Society News...

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.

60 posted on 12/28/2011 9:42:56 AM PST by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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