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| NYT to cut paper size and close plant |
| 2006-07-18 |
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times Co. plans to narrow the size of its flagship newspaper and close a printing plant, resulting in the loss of 250 jobs, the company said in a story posted on its Web site late on Monday.I guess we'll need to get smaller birdcages. |
| Posted by:glenmore |
| #24 New Motto: All the news that's printed to fit. |
| Posted by: Prisoner of Kerning Pair 2006-07-18 16:04 |
| #23 It's not just Hezbollah going down. |
| Posted by: kelly 2006-07-18 15:00 |
| #22 Going the way of "Der Angriff and "Der Sturmer"... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2006-07-18 14:20 |
| #21 And they say that all the news is negative. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-07-18 14:13 |
| #20 that Times Select© subscriber wall is sure working out well, don't you think? |
| Posted by: Pinch 2006-07-18 14:07 |
| #19 The NYT can't reduce the font size -- too many of their readers need magnifying glasses already. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-07-18 14:01 |
| #18 Closing in on toilet paper form factor... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2006-07-18 12:00 |
| #17 I'm Shrinking!!! |
| Posted by: MoDo 2006-07-18 11:52 |
| #16 I'm looking forward to reading the front-page expose of how closing the printing plant will destroy the lives of those 250 employees, leaving children unfed, retirements in ruins, a community in ashes, and a mob demanding that legislators "do something," while a cabal of capitalist pigs counts their gold in a polished boardroom overlooking Central Park. /not |
| Posted by: Fligum Tholutch2342 2006-07-18 11:52 |
| #15 Rantburg needs a morph of the accordion lady and the fat lady. |
| Posted by: KBK 2006-07-18 11:49 |
| #14 Can you say schadenfreude? ... I knew you could. |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2006-07-18 11:46 |
| #13 So, with a smaller paper they will have fewer ads? Less news? Less Opinions? or just smaller print? Inquiring minds want to know. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2006-07-18 11:24 |
| #12 Since I wouldn't knowingly shake the hand of anyone who worked for the NYT (anymore than I would anyone who worked for the Democratic Party), as far as I'm concerned the sooner they go under the better. Sympathy meter needle welded on zero. |
| Posted by: mac 2006-07-18 10:23 |
| #11 "...women and minorities hardest hit." |
| Posted by: charger 2006-07-18 10:02 |
| #10 It was long ago pointed out that newspapers in NYC are incapable of publishing local news that doesn't solely revolve around the editors tight clique of cocktail party friends that nobody else cares about. After the last major newspaper folded, a panel interview with four of their top reporters had them all agreeing that their readers just didn't appreciate what they published, that all the hoi polloi cared about were their own mundane little lives, not the lives and opinions of those that mattered in the city. Even after five minutes of listening to those arrogant SOBs, you wanted to slap them across the face. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-18 09:44 |
| #9 Sha-na-na, he-hey-hey, goodbye! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-07-18 09:38 |
| #8 How many of those blue collar printing jobs do you think they could've saved if some of their windbag Op/Ed columnists got offered a package? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-07-18 09:16 |
| #7 *snicker* |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-07-18 09:12 |
| #6 LOL! Mullah. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2006-07-18 09:07 |
| #5 We'll have to buy smaller fish, too! |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2006-07-18 08:48 |
| #4 Makes sense. We can get 24-hour headline news and analyses on cable and over the internet. Newspapers are going to have a long hard slog. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-07-18 08:46 |
| #3 I almost failed marketing in Business school for proposing that a newspaper do this. This is a sign of the endNYTimes. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-07-18 08:43 |
| #2 Might have something to do with declining readership and traitorous ways--or how about making up the news to satisfy an agenda? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2006-07-18 08:34 |
| #1 Heading eventually towards a postage-stamp sized paper. |
| Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-07-18 08:26 |