Posted on 05/01/2009 12:28:06 PM PDT by raccoonradio
I just heard a “save the globe” radio spot on WTKK-FM (96.9) and it slams New York Times Co. execs for their high salaries and big bonuses.
The Boston Newspaper Guild, the Globe’s biggest union, is also sponsoring spots on WRKO-AM (680) and WBZ-AM (1030).
The commercial goes like this:
Person 1: Can you believe how many companies are still paying out high salaries and bonuses to their executives during these tough times?
Person 2: I know. In fact, The New York Times Company paid its CEO more than $5 million last year. Yet it’s losing money every day.
Person 1: I thought they were supposed to EXPOSE that kind of corporate greed?
Person 2: Hey business is bad everywhere, but the Times should cut its CEO’s pay by a few million bucks before threatening to shut down the Globe.
Person 1: I can’t imagine Boston without the Globe.
The narrators then says: Send New York a message today. Call Arthur Sulzberger at (212) 556-1234 and tell him the Globe belongs to Boston. Go to savethebostonglobe.com.
Brought to you by the Boston Newspaper Guild, who brings you the Boston Globe and Boston.com. ------------------------------------------------ The spot, of course, airs as the Globe’s unions negotiate down to the wire. They have until midnight to come up with a proposed $20 million in cuts.
Good news at least for the popcorn industry
How about we get someone in Congress to propose a TAX!
A TAX on NEWSPRINT!
Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and
Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and
Whereas the distribution of newspapers requires the use of dirty internal combustion engines and
Whereas a large portion of every landfill is used for discarded newspapers,
Therefore:
Be it resolved that a Newsprint tax, of $1,000.00 per pound, be charged to EVERY newspaper with a daily subscription, within the United States!
________________________________________
We should get some Republican to propose THIS as an amendment to any “cap and trade” or “carbon tax” proposal that comes up!
Maybe we can make it like “Cap and Trade” and use the revenue generated, from this tax on dirty dinosaur newspapers, to subsidize a tax credit for home computers and digital devices?
Or, we could use the money to subsidize talk radio! Well, those guys really don’t need any help!
Buy the Globe. Remove Sports Section. Throw rest of paper in waste basket.
Love to watch the left fight among themselves for a change, we are usually too busy “eating our own” on the right to watch what the left is up to.
I can. See? Wasn't that simple?
Why doesn't the Newspaper Guild buy it out?
Call Sulzberger and demand he give ALL Globe employees a raise.
Lose the Boston Globe Workers Circle? The horror!
I wonder if the ad was produced under a union (AFTRA)contract?
Being an AFTRA member in the Boston market, I hadn’t heard about it.
Latest from Herald
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1169468&pos=breaking
Globe Pressmen “Gravely Concerned”
By Herald staff
Friday, May 1, 2009 - Updated 0m ago
Leaders of the Boston Globe press operators union say they are “gravely concerned” as the New York Times [NYT] Co.’s threatened deadline to close The Boston Globe looms.
With just hours to go until the Times-imposed deadline of midnight tonight, the pressmen’s union had not reached an agreement with Times Co. management on the proposed budget cuts.
What’s more, the union has not scheduled any future negotiation meetings with the Times management, Martin A. Callaghhan, president of the union said in an e-mailed statement.
So far, none of the newspaper’s 13 unions have announced an agreement with the Times Co., which requested on April 2 that the unions collectively slice $20 million from their budgets by May
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