Posted on 07/12/2017 11:48:52 AM PDT by Enterprise
While buyout talks continue, it currently looks like the number of editors who will be given pink slips at the New York Times will be around 60, sources tell Media Ink.
The seven two-person teams of editors breaking the news to those who are staying and to those who are going are being referred to in the newsroom as death panels, insiders said.
As part of a streamlining process unveiled by Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joe Kahn, the title of copy editor and backfield editor is being eliminated.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
They should run a lottery for people who want to tell them they are fired and why.
Buggywhip makers and slide rule manufacturers went under too.
Obsolescence marches on.
Article doesn’t explain it, but the “buyout” reference seems to be over the employee attrition and not a buyout of the entire business. Too bad, as it’d be marvelous if Trump were to buy it from the Mexican and that dude in Omaha. It’s only market value is in its real estate, so why not?
The Politburo will have a few less rubber stamps.
True, but good, well-crafted writing is one of the underpinnings of a great civilization.
Of course we’re a dying civilization already, in so many ways...akin to the Byzantine as they were being undermined and destroyed.
Hell, I’d tell the sumbitches for free. Me! Pick me! Pick me!!
I see workplace violence in their future.
Hahaha. Fire every employee down to the janitorial staff. They all have supported this LIAR machine.
How do you get on one of these Death Panels.
I wish we knew. A lot of people here would gladly serve voluntarily on this particular panel. :)
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