Posted on 11/22/2005 11:39:46 AM PST by LdSentinal
NEW YORK The application deadline for the Boston Globe's buyout package passed yesterday, and media reports indicate that at least 34 editorial employees have applied for the deal.
That number about matches the Globe's goal for cuts.
Writing in the Boston Phoenix, former Globe media writer Mark Jurkowitz reports that those seeking buyouts include "eight staffers in a Living/Arts (features) department that would be hit particularly hard by the cutbacks."
Jurkowitz adds: "The company still has to respond to the applicants as well as negotiate how long some of the departees will remain in their jobs. But among those confirmed buyout applicants are Travel editor Wendy Fox, pop culture writer Renee Graham, feature writer Jack Thomas, op-ed page editor Nick King, editorial writer Susan Trausch, obit writer Tom Long, theater critic Ed Siegel, business writer Charlie Stein, and music writer Steve Morse." Another possible taker not yet confirmed is "long-time political columnist Tom Oliphant."
Tom Sycophant is being bought out? Probably the NY Times will just hire him or something.
Hmmmm, why would a major newspaper publication like the Boston Globe need to cut back it's staff unless of course they had plummeting sales caused by the public's lack of confidence in the reporting of their extreme liberally biased lying news staff?????????????????????????????
Unctuous, simpering, sanctimonious...
Rats deserting a stinking ship
Not sure- the Times is having its own troubles. Besides, the Boston Globe is owned by the New York Times:
http://www.hoovers.com/new-york-times/--ID__12184--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
Oh that damn Bush!
Excellent!
Actually the Globe is a very useful publication. If you place it under some really dry wood, you'll have a nice cozy blaze to sit by while you surf FR.
rump swab
bow tied bum kisser
- Howie Carr
When Howie Carr talks about the "bow-tied bum-kissers" at the Boston Globe, Tom Sycophant is his archtype.
(Sunday papers for each were down about 7 per cent)
I visited Boston last week, and finally read several editions of the Globe. It seemed like every article was editorial.
That's right, dinosaurs. Don't pay any attention to the meteor.
I hope they didn't have any Janitors take the buyout.
They are gonna need all of them to clean up the BS around there.
We stopped reading the GLOB years ago, but it would be nice if those who do still read it were no longer subject to Tom Oliphant.
> Unctuous, simpering, sanctimonious...
You are too kind. Sneering, arrogant, contemptuous, pompous, overbearing...
> It seemed like every article was editorial.
It isn't even subtile. Of all the liberal rags, the newspages of the NYT clobber you with boredom, while the Globe's strive for a mawkish sentimentality.
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