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 ...
My cook books are all in Imperial. Metric may be more precise but Imperial is easier and produces great results.
Of course, it is not a communist plot. But it is an attempt by the New York Times to try and convert us to metric. That idea has been in American think tanks for years. It’s only within the last several months that the Times has converted to metric and, I’m sure, confused some people.
Some of my friends in England hate having the metric system foisted upon them by the EU.
Because of a combination of Righthaven and the influence of local leftwing journalists Jon Ralston and Steve Sebelius I was completely blackballed by the media, though I had polygraphed testimony of Reid’s well known former campaign manager. I have some email trails that are quite revealing.
But every dog gets his day. I will get mine.
“May they all kill each other!”
Hear! Hear!
The latest nonsense I’ve read about, a first page, above the fold article about two teenagers with Asberger’s syndrome and how they got jiggy together.
My father, who thought the sun rose & set on the front page of the NY Times, must be rolling in his grave.
That story might be interesting or even important in some way, but it is NOT front page news.
The NY Times can’t decide - do we want to be the Worker’s World News or US Magazine?
Schmucks - try and rise to the level of the National Enquirer!
And these are the people who have been swearing to us that 0bamacare is good for us and to oppose it is the act of a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal. Suck it up, Buttercup.
When you cease to report the news, you eventually become the news.
12 days ago
Victor Cook Wrote:
“Arthur DeIanni, president of the Allied Printing Trades Council of N.Y. and of New York Mailers’ Union Local 6, issued a statement criticizing the $4.5 million one-year consulting fee that is planned for Ms. Robinson, saying, “The Times likes to slam CEO excess, until they are the ones doing it.””
LOL wow. Sounds just like a liberal - do as I say, not as I do.
I hope they tank. America would be all the better for losing a liberal bullhorn that promotes china worship, government intrusion into our private lives, and the financial enslavement of the USA’s citizens via increasing taxes to european levels.
which op ed page? every “news” story is a biased mini-editorial...
Note: this topic is from 12/28/2011. Thanks Nachum.Newspaper of Wretched ping.
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