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New York Times Layoffs - Good Riddance To Bad Trash
ArticleSnatch.com ^ | January 5, 2011 | Brian Jones

Posted on 01/07/2011 4:18:51 PM PST by Huskrrrr

The left-leaning big apple laid off another eighteen "newsroom" employees this week. This is part of 100 "newsroom" jobs which the newspaper targeted for cuts in 2009. This is the second straight year that the ailing newspaper has made the decision to layoff 100 newsroom jobs. With a sharp thirty percent fall in ad revenue in the first three quarters of this year, accounting for around $231 million, these jobs cuts have become a necessary evil.

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Daniel Okrent, former public editor of the NYC, recently revealed huge amounts of liberal bias at the ailing paper: "When I was at the Times - my term there ended four years ago - everybody on the editorial board was a Democrat. I asked Gail Collins, who was then the editorial page editor, "Why don't you have a greater ideological variety and philosophical variety so you can have richer debate on the page?" And she said, "If I had a couple of conservatives on this page, they'd be unhappy all the time. They'd either have to write something that wasn't their view, because we decide our view consensually, or they'd never get to write. So, what's the point?"


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1 posted on 01/07/2011 4:18:54 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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Newsroom employees at Gannet papers are taking a one week without pay “furlough” for the first quarter of 2011.
Happy New Year, Libs...
2 posted on 01/07/2011 4:22:02 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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"If I had a couple of conservatives on this page, they'd be unhappy all the time. They'd either have to write something that wasn't their view, because we decide our view consensually, or they'd never get to write. So, what's the point?"

An that pretty much explains why this fish wrapper is going bankrupt.
3 posted on 01/07/2011 4:26:17 PM PST by Signalman
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To: Huskrrrr; abb

bump

That statement is as good a reason as any to shut it down


4 posted on 01/07/2011 4:27:54 PM PST by GeronL (How DARE you have an opinion!!)
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To: Huskrrrr

I would like to see everybody associated with the Democrat “mainstream” newspapers lose their jobs, their homes, and their families. For the damage they have done to this once-great country over the decades, they deserve nothing less.


5 posted on 01/07/2011 4:30:22 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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Every time another lib loses their job, an angel gets it’s wings.

Hope & Change... LOL


6 posted on 01/07/2011 4:30:34 PM PST by Gator113 (I'm voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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"If I had a couple of conservatives on this page, they'd be unhappy all the time. They'd either have to write something that wasn't their view, because we decide our view consensually, or they'd never get to write. So, what's the point?"

LOL, no bias there ;^)

7 posted on 01/07/2011 4:32:02 PM PST by The Cajun
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second straight year that the ailing newspaper has made the decision to layoff 100 newsroom jobs

Good grief... how many "newsroom" jobs does it take to reprint DNC talking points?

8 posted on 01/07/2011 4:32:39 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Huskrrrr

HAPPY NEW YEAR!


9 posted on 01/07/2011 4:36:33 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Huskrrrr

When my husband & I went to the Rammstein concert at MSG last month, we stayed in a hotel less than a block from the Old Gray Whore.

KK <— proudly posting meaningless contributions to threads since 2002


10 posted on 01/07/2011 4:39:08 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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The only bad thing about the NYT laying off employees is that it might just save the company from bankruptcy.


11 posted on 01/07/2011 4:40:16 PM PST by Brilliant
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They should retool and make toilet paper. I’m sure they would have a larger customer base.


12 posted on 01/07/2011 4:42:09 PM PST by italybub
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Jam that horrendous stench of obamanomics right up your ny slimes arses.

LLS

13 posted on 01/07/2011 4:47:08 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: Huskrrrr

Newsweek should offer to buy them for a dollar.


14 posted on 01/07/2011 4:49:25 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Happy New Year, Libs indeed! Let ‘em blame Algore for inventing the internet


15 posted on 01/07/2011 4:50:56 PM PST by bigbob
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To: KosmicKitty

Lovely area isn’t it around that place. The male peep shows and porno shops are especially charming.

Lots of empty desks inside the building.


16 posted on 01/07/2011 4:57:47 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: KosmicKitty

“————————————proudly posting meaningless contributions to threads since 2002”


Keep up the good work. :-)


17 posted on 01/07/2011 5:18:05 PM PST by Mears
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Nice to know where they went after Giuliani cleaned up Times Square.


18 posted on 01/07/2011 5:25:45 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Signalman

Boy. Was that ever the key sentence there. They decide their view consensually...so everyone has to agree before anything is printed.

Just wow.


19 posted on 01/07/2011 5:34:26 PM PST by rlmorel ("If this doesn't light your fire, Men, the pilot light's out!"...Coach Ed Bolin)
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To: Signalman

Boy. Was that ever the key sentence there. They decide their view consensually...so everyone has to agree before anything is printed.

Just wow.


20 posted on 01/07/2011 5:34:40 PM PST by rlmorel ("If this doesn't light your fire, Men, the pilot light's out!"...Coach Ed Bolin)
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