Posted on 02/21/2013 6:20:20 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
Liberalism is on the run.
The New York Times is selling everything that isn’t nailed down. It is trying to sell the liberal Boston Globe. It sold its papers in Florida. It sold its share of the Boston Red Sox.
The Times is the voice of American liberalism. Its voice is turning into an old man’s croak. It stands on the street corner. “Paper, Mister? Buy a paper?”
“Our plan to sell the New England Media Group demonstrates our commitment to concentrate our strategic focus and investment on The New York Times brand and its journalism,” said Mark Thompson, chief executive of the Times Co., in a statement.
He said the Times was “proud of our association with the Globe” and Worcester Telegram & Gazette, but that “given the differences between these businesses and The New York Times, we believe that a sale is in the best long-term interests of these properties and the employees who work for them as well as in the best interests of our shareholders.”
Translation: “We tried to sell this turkey in 2009, but we got the union to buckle. It’s still a turkey. We will do anything we can to unload it.”
Management at the Times pretended for four years that the Boston Globe is not dying. They put it on life support. Now it should be put out of its misery.
Management at the Times played pretend. It pretended that all daily newspapers in large cities are not dying, including the Times.
The Times is a mastodon in a tar pit. The smaller ones have already sunk. It is sinking. It is trying to conceal the fact by selling assets.
Liberals bet on control of local newspapers as their way to control voters’ thinking. That strategy is dying. So are daily newspapers. Nothing can reverse this.
The current sale plan, in addition to the Globe and Worcester Telgram, includes BostonGlobe.com, Boston.com, Telegram.com and the Globe’s direct mail marketing company, GlobeDirect. It also would include the company’s 49 percent stake in Metro Boston.
Anyone with an ounce of sense, left the Boston Globe at least four years ago. The handwriting was on the wall. The free market had placed the Globe in the balance. It was found wanting.
So, let us delight in the Times‘ dilemma. The Times deserves it.
The poor schnooks who work at the Times hold on with the same desperation as their peers at the Boston Globe have. They think: “I work for the Times. I won’t happen to me.” Of course it will happen to them. The Times, like the Boston Globe, is going the way of all newsprint.
They pay $5,000 a month for a cramped, run-down apartment in the Big Apple. They could be working in Atlanta, buying a 2,500 square foot home for $125,000. But that would be beneath them.
In 10 years, they will take their six-month severance checks to their wives and say, “I have to start over.”
I love it.
I learned a long time ago, from my leather belt toting father “It is so much more profitable to tell the truth.”
The Old Grey Lady is having a yard sale at the townhouse she inherited, wearing a floral print house dress, smoking Virginia Slims and drinking a Natural Light. And she’s almost at the end of her reverse mortgage.
The Old Grey Lady is having a yard sale at the townhouse she inherited, wearing a floral print house dress, smoking Virginia Slims and drinking a Natural Light. And she’s almost at the end of her reverse mortgage.
OMG.... this is another CRISIS!!!!
Without these newspapers, the homeless will freeze to death.
Smart phone + fat thumbs = double post.
Can you imagine Manhattan's limousine-liberals' heads exploding if the NY Times began regularly publishing Mark Steyn and Michelle Malkin on their opinion pages? Sure, it might save the paper, but for the scum who wown and run the paper, their religion (big-government socialism - - for other people) comes first. So that will never happen.
What a crock of B.S.
Are you really comparing the N.Y. Times to FR?
You are either jerking chains here, with some axe to grind...or smoking dope.
FR,,,like the the N.Y. Times...!!! What a reach....LOL!!!
Funny you should mention Michele, because I was thinking of her when I posted that!
Great minds think alike.
Michele is a bright light. I’m glad she’s on our side, I’d hate to be her enemy.
You haven’t spent much time on the FR religion forum if you aren’t aware of the prevalence of anti-Catholic comments. I don’t ever remember seeing you on anything but a Mormon-bashing thread. In fact, on the topic of hate for Catholicism I’ve seen more vitriol here than the NYT. On second thought, might you be one in sympathy with the condemnation?
If the NY Times goes under, they’ll just all get jobs at the Washington Post or USA Today or CNN or MSDNC or Obama’s cabinet or...
“Our plan to sell the New England Media Group demonstrates our commitment to concentrate our strategic focus and investment on The New York Times brand and its journalism,”
I assume they are referring to their brand (failed) and their journalism (yellow)!
The Internet didn’t kill newspapers. Not really, anyway. It may be somewhat of a factor, but actually the decline of them started right after WWII thanks to the event of TV news and rising operating costs.
IIRC, the Slimes bought the Globe (and Telegram, etc) for around $1.1B in 1993.
The value of the paper plummeted to an estimated value of $65M in 2009, with a real bid of $33M.
I had reason to look up Adolph Ochs earlier in the week, and clicked on his grandson’s link. For some strange reason, the Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. Wiki entry doesn’t have his well known nickname of “Pinch” (papa was “Punch”...) mentioned at all.
I take it back, don't fire Dowd, I enjoy the CZJ pics...
5.56mm
Appears you are just looking for a fight.
As far as "mormon-bashing" goes....I'd like you to point those posts by me out. I'd be interested in what you apparently think is "bashing".
Your last sentence is laughable.......
I think Donald Trump will make an effort to acquire the NYT, with the understanding if he is shut out, he will compete against it.
And he will win.
The NYT seems to be rallying to oppose that - though if the were half as smart as they claim, they would take him up in a heartbeat.
they would rather go out of business than sell to anyone who comes close to non-liberal
FtNYT’s.
Not reporting the genocide by Stalin in the 30s (durranty) was a liberal NYT crime against humanity.
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