Comments on: Fishwrap of Record slashes jobs

By: cheapseat

cheapseat — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:21:30 +0000

as alohaguy so correctly noted, the times has no newsroom, so could that 100 layoffs mean bad news for the AP. we can only hope. give that cow dowd the boot, she needs a good screwing over.

By: jsr

jsr — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:40:58 +0000

On October 20th, 2009 at 10:15 am, JeffC… said:

Why doesn’t the Times follow the advice of their Nobel Prize winning economist and borrow and spend their way out of their current financial state?

Better yet, why don’t they propose a 25% tax on newspaper purchases? This money will be pass through Washington and eventually some part returned to the newspapers in the forms of subsidies and government purchases of their rag. It won’t help their business but it may help their brain-dead staff understand the consequences of the policies they advocate for the rest of us.

By: JeffC...

JeffC... — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:15:25 +0000

Why doesn’t the Times follow the advice of their Nobel Prize winning economist and borrow and spend their way out of their current financial state?

Oh, my bad–they tried that already. Maybe they should fire that economist for being wrong.

By: happy2behere

happy2behere — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:11:15 +0000

A blessing upon them: May this be the beginning of many more cutbacks to come.

By: Dan Lee

Dan Lee — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:25:30 +0000

I wish Michelle would stop picking on the NYT.
They really aren’t entirely worthless.. If they go under, lots of pet owners will have to find a new alternative for Paper Training..

Ok not really.. Carry on Michelle.. =P

By: jangar

jangar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:07:43 +0000

Flyoverman said:
It would be delicious to know how many of the NYT cast offs apply with Fox News.

Zero. They’ll return to mom’s basement and troll conservative blogs.

By: jangar

jangar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:03:24 +0000

October 19, 2009 , 2:49 pm
Times Says It Will Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs

…and send them back to their floor mopping and toilet cleaning positions.

By: ArizonaNeanderthal

ArizonaNeanderthal — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:55:43 +0000

Ah, to die the Death of a Thousand Cuts-they deserve it. Even their Sports page has become a smart mouthed, smart Alec leftist waste-bleed Gray Lady, bleed.

Yes, it might be nice if El Rushbo put together a group to buy the Times–then Axelrod and Emmanuel can tell both of PMSNBC viewers not to read it! Personally I would keep Maureen Dowd as comic relief-either that or she gets a job with the Hussein Obama Administration.

By: The City Square

The City Square — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:41:56 +0000

A moment of comic relief…

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By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:16:10 +0000

I wonder if they will lay off the person who is in charge of reading conservative blogs, watches Beck or has a piano fall on his/her head with a news story attached?

By: WarEagle82

WarEagle82 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:01:14 +0000

I wonder how much money the NYT could save by cutting Maureen Dowd? She is another NYT columnist that essentially writes the same column every week.

Cut her column back to once a year and you could just run that same column 52 times a year and save a bundle!

They have to learn to think outside the box at NYT if they want to survive…

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:52:25 +0000

Here are some places the New York Times could start pruning excess baggage that is not needed: 1) Roger Cohen. Cohen is an apologist for the government of Iran although after the fraudulent election, Cohen had to backtrack and offer some ginger criticism of Iranian government “excesses”. The hapless Wolf Blitzer at CNN did his best to try to rehabilitate Cohen 2) Nicholas Kritof. He has now written the same column about how wonderful and selfless he is and how bad Israel is at least 500 times 3) Clark Hoyt. He has written the same column fifty times about how there is no liberal bias at the Times, the editorials are all fair and the oped page reflects all points of view. All three of the above are useless.

By: granite

granite — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:14:00 +0000

The Times has earned, and deserves, all the Schadenfreude being experienced at its expense.

By: BayStateRepublican

BayStateRepublican — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:59:03 +0000

On October 19th, 2009 at 3:51 pm, AlohaGuy said:

Whatever happened to the Charge a Lot for all of Maureen Dowd’s Addicted Readers business model?

Times Select died a fast death, didn’t it?

By: Republicanvet

Republicanvet — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:27:48 +0000

On October 19th, 2009 at 3:49 pm, AlohaGuy said:

Times Says It Will Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs

Later, the paper retracted after discovering it had no newsroom…

Months later, the paper retracted after discovering they got the story wrong.