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2014-12-24 Home Front: Culture Wars

50 more NY Times journalists to be fired

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Posted by badanov 2014-12-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Good article, explains how the Schuzberger trust operates. Explains what happens to B stock if sold. (Guess).

Posted by Shipman 2014-12-24 07:04|| 2014-12-24 07:04|| Front Page Top

#2 The shame is that any of them still have jobs.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-12-24 07:23|| 2014-12-24 07:23|| Front Page Top

#3 "most talent-rich newsroom in America"

Customers decide whether that's true or not.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-12-24 07:49|| 2014-12-24 07:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Their talent for shoveling BS isn't in demand. Instead of firing them they should recycle them. Soylent green is supposedly tasty.

Posted by Silentbrick 2014-12-24 08:11|| 2014-12-24 08:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Cuban market is opening up: free health care, old cars, propaganda Havana, and fat cigars.

Adios!

Posted by Airandee 2014-12-24 08:25|| 2014-12-24 08:25|| Front Page Top

#6 #3 - their readership base became more selective.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-24 08:37|| 2014-12-24 08:37|| Front Page Top

#7 "t now appears that the financial demands of those holding the shares, and particularly the generous dividend they pay to the family members who hold large chunks of those shares, are now making it difficult to perform the very journalism the structure was created to protect."

No, kiddies. The CORPORATION was created to provide money to the shareholders, just like any other evil corporation.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-12-24 10:31|| 2014-12-24 10:31|| Front Page Top

#8 I always thought Carlos Slim fucked up by buying the A (non-voting) shares; otherwise this would have happened years ago.

Posted by Raj 2014-12-24 11:27|| 2014-12-24 11:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Soon to be known as "The Manhattan Penny Saver"...

Posted by tu3031 2014-12-24 11:41|| 2014-12-24 11:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Will the last man out please take my Pulitzer Prize off the wall in the lobby? Thanks lots.

Posted by The Ghost of Walter Duranty 2014-12-24 11:44|| 2014-12-24 11:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Revolution devouring its children?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-24 12:22|| 2014-12-24 12:22|| Front Page Top

#12 And now only the true lefties are left. Alone and cold with no paying followers, cause we all know the socialist left feel the news should be free!!!!!

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-12-24 13:15|| 2014-12-24 13:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe NYT will merge with Mother Jones and save a ton of paper in the process.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2014-12-24 15:46|| 2014-12-24 15:46|| Front Page Top

#14 The Times is now like finding the ex-prom queen, now toothless and tweaking, working the midnight to six shift at Waffle House.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2014-12-24 16:35|| 2014-12-24 16:35|| Front Page Top

#15 Anti-capitalists surprised they can't run a business.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-12-24 17:27|| 2014-12-24 17:27|| Front Page Top

#16 At whitecollar rednecked:

B R U T A L

Posted by Unonter Bluetooth3165 2014-12-24 19:43|| 2014-12-24 19:43|| Front Page Top

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