Posted on 06/28/2017 6:17:07 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Using words including “betrayal,” “humiliating” and “covfefe” and suggesting that management had compared them to “dogs urinating on fire hydrants,” copy editors at the New York Times today let executive editor Dean Baquet and his heir apparent, Joseph Kahn, know exactly how they feel about taking the brunt of layoffs and buyouts as the Times expands its reporting ranks.
The latest flare-up comes at a moment when the Times also is dealing with a libel lawsuit filed by former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin over a Times Op-Ed column erroneously linking her to violent attacks on public figures. In a letter addressed to the two top editors and written under the letterhead of the NewsGuild’s NYT unit, they also included a plea for reconsideration of the plan to eliminate some 100 editors from their ranks.
A short time later, Baquet and Kahn responded, in a letter addressed to New York NewsGuild president Grant Glickson. “We take those concerns seriously,” they wrote. “We feel a compelling need to reduce separate layers of editing … and to speed up production. …We have also made clear that in an environment of limited resources, we intend to invest more in recruiting top talent to keep us ahead…”
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
LOL!
Kick ‘em while they’re down, Sarah.
Kick ‘em while they’re stiff. Kick ‘em all around..
More like dogs urinating and dumping on the mohair carpet, sofa and bed.
Top Talent will work out of a Pakistani call center.
All of them will be named “Bob.”
ALL the NEWS EDITORS for all the vocal media are just as bad.....
I was think H-1Bs
I subscribe to home delivery of the NYT, solely on the basis of the daily Xword puzzle, although there are a 4X4 and 6X6 Kenken, as well.
Not sure how I’d deal with the termination of this arrangement, but time marches on.
NOT worth it!
Kudos for fessing up publicly to your indulgence here; but you are supporting evil liars who would just as soon you Die In A Fire.
They even post about (last week’s loser professor) and act out (Central Park’s Shakespeare In the Park) their murderous fantasies.
It’s easy enough to steal old copies of their crossword off the net. Stop paying them to hate you.
There’s life without the NYT crossword puzzles. At 10 cents per photocopy you can photocopy them and the answers if you wish, once a week at any library. Total: 70 cents, less than the weekly cost of getting the paper delivered and the good news is your money goes to the library, not the NYT.
Top talent? Does that mean the NYT will rehire Jayson Blair? He was very talented at writing what Times editors wanted to read.
Adult snowflakes. It's about time you feel what real people have to endure while you sit there and make fun of the middle class and President Trump, who is at least trying to help them.
Sprint does this all the time. Lay people off, hire them again in three weeks. It’s effed up.
Do you even understand what a copy editor does? They check grammar, spelling (not everything is caught by the computer), sentence structure, typography and style consistency, and a few are fact checkers for such aspects as dates, times, biographic material, past mentions in the press, etc. They are not opinion writers or reporters. They are grammatical detail people who take orders but keep the paper readable, at least in English.
You are exulting over the wrong people. Copy editors are grammarians and technicians, not writers. This is like rejoicing because Hollywood electricians and cameramen can no longer feed their families when it is the big stars who run their mouths and rake in the big bucks for it.
And there's life WITH the NYT crossword. Call it my link with the past. Even if it seems it might outlive it :-(
“Oh the humanity!”
(......smirk......)
And there’s life WITH the NYT crossword. Call it my link with the past. Even if it seems I might outlive it :-(
Sorry.
Politico Writer: Hooray for Obviously Biased Journalism! Embrace the Slant!
NewsBusters ^ | June 26, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3564357/posts
I'm going to start calling it "Opinionism", and its adherents "Opinionists".
"Hey, you got a college degree in Opinionism! Congratulations! Now, good luck getting paid for something other people give away for free..."😀
They cried “covfefe”, LOL. That word will make into the dictionary someday.
“At 10 cents per photocopy you can photocopy them——”
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And they are on decent paper instead of lousy newsprint.
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