The NYT? Copy Editors rebel.
Not the Grey Lady.
New York Times Editors Decry “Humiliating Process” Of Layoffs
http://deadline.com/2017/06/new-york-times-editors-decry-humiliating-lay...
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.
There are 2 letters in this article. If you have some time, read them.
Letter 1 intro
Dear Dean and Joe,
We have begun the humiliating process of justifying our continued presence at The New York Times. We take some solace in the fact that we have been assured repeatedly that copy editors are highly respected here.
If that is true, we have a simple request. Cutting us down to 50 to 55 editors from more than 100, and expecting the same level of quality in the report, is dumbfoundingly unrealistic. Work with us on a new number.
But after living more than a year and a half under a cloud of uncertainty about our jobs, a cruelly drawn-out period in which we suspended major financial arrangements and life decisions, and carried an ever-growing kernel of fear;
Letter 2 Mgt Response
Dear Grant,
Your letter reflects the passion for The Times and the journalism we produce that has distinguished us for decades. Many people who care deeply about the newsroom and its editing traditions have made their concerns clear in the course of this restructuring, and we take those concerns seriously.
Oh, your still totally laid offed and fd. Thanks for your service. By the way, we totally appreciate the superb use of language in your letter. It's almost like you did it for a living.
It is true that NYT is massively failing financially. Palin will only want $10 bucks for the inconvenience of being defamed around the world...
Maybe C99% could do a leveraged buyout with junk bonds and take the mother over?
Yeah. That's a plan
Comments
I propose that the NYT be repurposed
after it is sold. New York Trashwrap, inc. "All the waste that's fit to wrap."
In Florida
we would call it The New York Mullet Wrapper.
Naah, we call it simply, "fish wrap."
Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
My guess is they are senior staff in more ways than one.
Funny how that always happens.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Yes, this is the corporate modus operandi
The copy editor's letter was excellent in that he points out how a cost saving measure (elimination of copy editing jobs) will result in a distinct drop in quality of the paper. This will lead to a drop in subscriptions. It is a self defeating mechanism.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
old enough
to have watched the NYT fall from being the most trusted name in print to the fish wrap it now is. Very sad to someone who reveres print, but things change and it's very important to let them know if the change is for the worse. I dumped the NYT last year after years of subscribing . But even if thousands of people do the same, that paper will be bought and read by millions of people too busy or whatever to do their own research and realize this grand dame of journalism is now completely untrustworthy, just flat out unworthy of that great lady's tradition.
Too true. The Washington Post too, people still read it and
think “reliable source” — people such as Wikipedia editors, either they’re easily fooled themselves or they just use these publications’ previous reputations to fool or browbeat others. They act as if ”mainstream” is some kind of guarantee of reporting truth.
In the case of the Washington Post, they don’t realize “it’s all Bezos on that bus.” People don’t want to think about what it means for the Washington Post to be owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, who has a contract with the CIA worth twice as much as what he paid for the Post.
lol, I met Bezos in 1994 - he hadn't build his website
Amazon.com yet (but a couple of month later went online with it, don't remember if it was 1995) and it immediately was crashing all the competition of other online booksellers' and of brick and mortar booksellers' businesses). I much later (around 2011) found old video footage at the DC ARD German TV studio's archives a longer piece which showed Bezos in his warehouses in Seattle (it was older footage, don't remember the year, but around the end of the nineties), and he demonstrated back then to our journalist on camera of how to use his website to order books. It was clear he had no clue about coding or software (no Unix / Linux guy and not being ableto use his Windows based website without fumbling along...) He is a small man and a Wall Street guy and knows how to use the new technologies to gain influence and power and profit the low noise way. His main strength is how he uses technology in Warehouse logistics. Amazon Global Fullfillment Network.
A lot of detail in that article about his fullfillment centers world wide and how he began.
I also met a guy while waiting at the Baltimore Airport for my flight, who was working in his Delaware distribution plant. He showed me his hands. Full of thick callused skin, some of it ruptured. He said one can't keep up with the speed of the conveyer belts. Oh well ...
Bezos, a much less well known man than it would needed be. Every is blinded by his success. May be he is Trump's favorite entrepreneur, heh?
Whatever. Just babbling along.
https://www.euronews.com/live
12 steps to be free of Bezos
Great! That just gave an "Ernestine" earworm. "Have I reached the party to whom I am speaking." LOL, use it on the amazons that's what I say. Have fun. I choose #1, then simply type "Bezos" as reason for deletion.
Once I read his "Leader Principles" vomit, it reminded me so much of slavery I used search/replace on just a few of the corporate buzzwords to make this, ran outta gas pretty quick it does go on and on:
Disconfirm your belief why not. Reading all that literally makes me sick to my stomach, it is how tech employers brainwash the think out of thoughtful heads, constant constant surveying, testing, "improving". omg I feel sorry for people who are still slaves to that depravity. Free your mind, rejoin humanity.
peace
Edit: correct format for the Earn Trust part, kinda funny how I kept missing it. heh
that is more fun to listen to ...
and makes some of my points
[video:https://youtu.be/vt5HpT5OXFc]
Start at TC 00:00 the first section only.
https://www.euronews.com/live
I learned how to read as a very
small kid on the WAPO. That was 6 decades ago. Its literary decline hurts, too.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
The only place for truth is now alternate media.
Dozens of YouTube channels are popping up where you can find the truth. More and more women are getting involved and starting to speak up.
Here's Brittany Pettibone and Inessa S in conversation about the lies of the MSM when they report on Russia and Putin.
I'm forced to lie.
Because I value my job more than honesty.
This. This is what we've become.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
All the News Sanctioned by the State as Fit to Print
Lovely fish wrap.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Even the mob
wouldn't send a fish in dirty newspaper.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes
It's my understanding that bullet-proof vests are de rigeur.....
[video:https://youtu.be/V7RMKq8RQj4]
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Fish wrap? Well at least it's good for
something. I doubt that if you'd use the NYT and WP to line a bird cage the poor birdie would even crap on them.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
The NYT has read your diary Ed.....