Posted on 05/14/2014 11:55:26 AM PDT by abb
Jill Abramson “is unexpectedly leaving the position” as executive editor of The New York Times, the Times announced Wednesday. Dean Baquet will be the new executive editor, Ravi Somaiya reports. “The reasons for the switch were not immediately clear,” Somaiya reports. Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. attributed the change to “an issue with management in the newsroom,” Somaiya wrote on Twitter.
Abramson became the Times’ executive editor in 2011. She is five years away from being 65, the age at which Times executive editors traditionally must retire. On Monday Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan noted that under Abramson, “not only is the top editor a woman – the first — but many department heads and section editors are, too.”
LOL! Somebody must have not said *harrumph* loud enough when talking about the tea party.
That's my take too... Forgot what it was - but she said something that made it feel like she wasn't drinking the kool aid... Do you have a link?
Why she’s out:
She is a heretic!
Jill Abramson: ‘This is the most secretive White House I have ever dealt with’
Politico ^ | January 23, 2014 | DYLAN BYERS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3115164/posts
On CBS, Top NYT Editor Jill Abramson Shocks the Hosts, Agrees Obama’s Worse Than Bush on Freedom of ^
10/19/2013 5:13:19 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 15 replies
NewsBusters.org ^ | October 19, 2013 | Tim Graham
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3081091/posts
bump
Colin Powellesque. Good luck, NYT.
Wow—his wife looks like Medea Benjamin.
From a source that cannot be used at FR:
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As with any such upheaval, there’s a history behind it. Several weeks ago, I’m told, Abramson discovered that her pay and her pension benefits as both executive editor and, before that, as managing editor were considerably less than the pay and pension benefits of Bill Keller, the male editor whom she replaced in both jobs. “She confronted the top brass,” one close associate said, and this may have fed into the management’s narrative that she was “pushy,” a characterization that, for many, has an inescapably gendered aspect. Sulzberger is known to believe that the Times, as a financially beleaguered newspaper, needed to retreat on some of its generous pay and pension benefits; Abramson had also been at the Times for far fewer years than Keller, having spent much of her career at the Wall Street Journal, accounting for some of the pension disparity.”
Cicero; BUTTTT! He’s got a white wife. That’s so chic among the Black Leftists (look at the professional ball players).
However, when you are a black conservative with a white wife, it is “uncle Tom time” re George Schuyler, Justice Clarence Thomas, and others.
What this means is that the New York Times is now sooooo properly “liberal”, “diverse”, and in lockstep with the Obama Left, that the banner line will soon be changed to “All the News That The ONE Wants You to Read”.
Subheadline: Conservatives continue their war on women!
As with any such upheaval, there’s a history behind it. Several weeks ago, I’m told, Abramson discovered that her pay and her pension benefits as both executive editor and, before that, as managing editor were considerably less than the pay and pension benefits of Bill Keller, the male editor whom she replaced in both jobs. “She confronted the top brass,” one close associate said, and this may have fed into the management’s narrative that she was “pushy,” a characterization that, for many, has an inescapably gendered aspect. Sulzberger is known to believe that the Times, as a financially beleaguered newspaper, needed to retreat on some of its generous pay and pension benefits; Abramson had also been at the Times for far fewer years than Keller, having spent much of her career at the Wall Street Journal, accounting for some of the pension disparity.”
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See post 43
http://www.vox.com/2014/5/14/5718544/nprs-david-folkenflik-explains-jill-abramsons-downfall
NPR’s David Folkenflik explains Jill Abramson’s downfall
Updated by Matthew Yglesias on May 14, 2014, 6:29 p.m. ET
NPR’s media reporter David Folkenflik tweeted out a fascinating series of observations about Jill Abramson and the New York Times early Wednesday evening. Media news junkies should be following him every day, but if you happen to miss these tweets it’s worth taking a moment to read the whole series. He paints a portrait of a multi-dimensional conflict between Abramson and her bosses with a dose of gender pay gap, a dollop of digital transition, and range of other issues coming into play:
Invitation to a beheading: How Times editors learned of Abramson’s ouster
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/05/why-jill-abramson-was-fired.html
May 14, 2014
Why Jill Abramson Was Fired
Posted by Ken Auletta
http://www.thewrap.com/behind-jill-abramson-new-york-times-departure-what-went-wrong
Behind Jill Abramson’s NY Times Departure: What Went Wrong (Updated)
Did the NY Times Fire Jill Abramson For Being Pushy?
Thanks!
So the Witch’s melanin content was too low? HA HA.
bump to the top
Thanks Chickensoup... it makes perfect sense now - for a brief moment there was ‘diversity of thought’ - scary stuff for lock-step liberals...
The New York Times is a piece of garbage.
As with any such upheaval, there’s a history behind it. Several weeks ago, I’m told, Abramson discovered that her pay and her pension benefits as both executive editor and, before that, as managing editor were considerably less than the pay and pension benefits of Bill Keller, the male editor whom she replaced in both jobs. “She confronted the top brass,” one close associate said, and this may have fed into the management’s narrative that she was “pushy,” a characterization that, for many, has an inescapably gendered aspect. Sulzberger is known to believe that the Times, as a financially beleaguered newspaper, needed to retreat on some of its generous pay and pension benefits; Abramson had also been at the Times for far fewer years than Keller, having spent much of her career at the Wall Street Journal, accounting for some of the pension disparity.”
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This is the leftist narrative, but they kicked her out for the reasons in post 43
NPR’s media reporter David Folkenflik tweeted out a fascinating series of observations about Jill Abramson and the New York Times early Wednesday evening. Media news junkies should be following him every day, but if you happen to miss these tweets it’s worth taking a moment to read the whole series. He paints a portrait of a multi-dimensional conflict between Abramson and her bosses with a dose of gender pay gap, a dollop of digital transition, and range of other issues coming into play:
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Leftist gameplaying. This is what they want you to think: a paycheck feminist issue, but in reality it is a race and criticism of the leftist regime currently in power that lost the job. Just wait,
can we become a third world hellhole in less than three years?
Dean Baquet? Sounds sooooo Keeping Up Appearances.
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