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2009-10-20 Economy

Times Says It Will Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs

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Posted by Fred 2009-10-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 With any luck, in 2020 the last NYT propagandist gets laid off.

Posted by ed 2009-10-20 01:03|| 2009-10-20 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 It took more than 1000 newsroom people to call the whitehouse and DNC to find out what to report?

I believe they could cut much deeper with no impact to content or quality.

A good side business would be to move furniture from NY to DC where these folks will find new employment.

Posted by airandee 2009-10-20 07:35|| 2009-10-20 07:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Given the WH 'owns' the media, all they have to do is email it in and have someone format it for the next day. Took a 100 to do that? Must be a union shop. Oh, wait, never mind.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-10-20 08:03|| 2009-10-20 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 The fact checking staff hasn't been used in ages anyway.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-10-20 13:50|| 2009-10-20 13:50|| Front Page Top

#5 All kidding aside, is there anything the NYT could do to save itself? Seems to me they have positioned themselves ideally to appeal to a large portion of the liberal market, but aren't making any headway. I'm guessing liberals are either moving to the right, or getting their news elsewhere. Or both.

Posted by gorb 2009-10-20 15:58|| 2009-10-20 15:58|| Front Page Top

#6 gorb, back when the New York Times was universally accepted as the newspaper of record, half their readers were conservatives. Now the conservatives have taken themselves elsewhere.

Posted by trailing wife 2009-10-20 16:39|| 2009-10-20 16:39|| Front Page Top

#7 The reputation is tarnished now so returning to actual Neutral Reporting may not save them. Still, if they'd done so right after Sept 11 they might have had a better outlook now.

Make your editorial section as liberal as you want but keep the news politics free. It's not that difficult, yet they simply couldn't manage. They deserve to die.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-10-20 18:18|| 2009-10-20 18:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Now there best bet is to be bought by Fox News.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-10-20 18:19|| 2009-10-20 18:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Rupert wouldn't want to diminish News Corps's credibility as a news organization

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-10-20 18:25|| 2009-10-20 18:25|| Front Page Top

#10 they have positioned themselves ideally to appeal to a large portion of the liberal market

Not even that - try a section of Manhattan.

Posted by Pappy 2009-10-20 21:18|| 2009-10-20 21:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Hey, they are just doing the same thing that Time and Newsweek have done, and you can see how successful those mags are.

(They are such a friggin joke...both are reed-thin and have about 4 advertisers.)

Posted by Remoteman 2009-10-20 22:18|| 2009-10-20 22:18|| Front Page Top

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