New York Times Staff "Stunned" By Newsroom Cuts (NYT)

The Business Insider ^ | 10/19/09

[FromLori]

The New York Times (NYT) newsroom is reeling from today's announcement that the company plans to cut the staff by 100.

We spoke with a Times reporter, who told us it was the timing of the layoffs that is hitting everyone the hardest. The layoffs will come at the start of December, meaning a jobless Christmas for lots of reporters.

See more reactions from the newsroom >

Most of the people at the Times know the paper needs to be slimmed down, but nobody expected it would come in the middle of October. The newsroom is "stunned."

When we asked our source if the source knew anyone that would accept the buyout, the reply came back, "Ha! Absolutely not!" If anyone at the Times wanted a buyout, they could have taken one, just 18 months ago. So, expect Bill Keller to have to make cuts.

Our source says the staff knew budgets would be tighter next year, but they didn't expect the cuts this year. This fortells bad news for this Thursday's third quarter earnings announcement. Otherwise, the cuts could have waited until after the holidays.

How will the Times decide who gets cut? It's either going to be based on seniority, or it will be based on who's performing, and working hardest. The feeling is nobody is safe. Digital people as well as people on the print side could be sacked.

[lmr]

The New York Times (NYT) newsroom is reeling from today's announcement that the company plans to cut the staff by 100.

You mean it takes that many people to write that rag?

I could get the same result with a dozen teenagers on acid or about 20 monkeys with typewriters.

[RedhairRedhair]

Guess nobody wants to read the made up news?

[Steely Tom]

Maybe Pinch can have his stuffed moose hand out beebers while they’re cleaning out their desks.

[Palladin]

I hope Maureen Dowdy is on the hitlist.

[freedumb2003]

>>The newsroom is “stunned.” <<

Wait a second! We hate capitalism! We think America sucks! We were born owed a job! How DARE the evil capitalists fire us just because they have to pay us!

Why am I naked in front of the class when I haven’t studied for the test?

(Schadenfreude — it’s what’s for breakfast!)

[blam]

The truth will sell...lies and left-wing propaganda doesn’t.

[Canedawg]

All the news that fits...their agenda.

[behzinlea]

Die already, Gray Lady. Just expire, you ink-eyed pink-bellied Gorgon.

[AmericanSphinx71]

“New York Times Staff “Stunned” By Newsroom Cuts (NYT)”

Aw you poor NYT staffers. Don’t you understand this is just a byproduct of HOPE and CHANGE.

Go on over to Rockefeller Center and see if NBC is hiring.

[listenhillary]

If they were stunned, they were not very bright to begin with.

[4rcane]

greedy ceo

[2ndDivisionVet]

Since when do Marxist Atheists celebrate the birth of Christ Our Lord?

[Dallas59]

Why...people should boycott the Times.....It’s only fair....Jobs should be a right./s

[blam]

I used to pay my newspaper bill anually, then I changed to quarterly and now I'm at monthly...I wrote on my monthly bill today: "If you shrink the newspaper anymore or raise the price again, I will cancel."

[Palladin]

It’s getting bad with the local newspapers. This Sunday the Comics section was only 4 pages, and the inner ones were in black and white!

I’m ready to cancel.

[Plutarch]

...the timing of the layoffs that is hitting everyone the hardest. The layoffs will come at the start of December, meaning a jobless Christmas for lots of reporters.

That would be a Winter Holiday Season in NYT-speak.

[kcvl]

Barack Hussein Obama...mmm...mmm...mmm... how is that ‘stimulus’ working out NYTs! /s

Maybe they should have focused on REPORTING THE NEWS instead of pleasing liberals.

[two23]

Don’t worry, Barqy will bail them out, then they can print all the news he tells them to.

[Cheerio]

The newsroom is "stunned."

Come out of your little East Coast elite bubble and be STUNNED with the rest of middle America.

[Cheerio]

This will certainly make the NYSlimes, the leftist SECRET publishing organization, go running again to Congress and their child messiah with their tin cup demanding a bailout of the print media.

[Ditter]

Here’s a quarter call someone who cares (if there is still such a thing as a pay phone anymore).

[freekitty]

I doubt if they are stunned. Surprised, maybe; that their little commie world leaders didn’t protect them.

Dictators have no friends; only sacrifies.

[stylin19a]

if they had any reporters that investigate, they would have known this was coming.

[bray]

There’s Change we’ve been Hoping for.

Pray for America

[Soul Seeker]

Are Maureen and Brooks on the hit list?

Don’t despair! Obama’s people ahve decreed that making a profit in a news business is a bad thing. According to another thread I just left. Rejoice! You are serving your Leader’s wishes well. Not like those silly FOX people who don’t have to worry about losing their jobs this Christmas. LOL

[Beelzebubba]

We spoke with a Times reporter, who told us it was the timing of the layoffs that is hitting everyone the hardest. The layoffs will come at the start of December, meaning a jobless Christmas for lots of reporters.

---

This can’t be true.

How many of these poor unemployed leftists celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ?

I suspect they’re just bummed about not getting paid for a few extra winter vacation days.

[tcrlaf]

QUICK!!! Ask Obama for a BAILOUT! Pinch needs a new yacht to entertain Obama on...

[QBFimi]

>>The newsroom is “stunned.”

And the truth shall set them free (in this case, the lack of truth). Say “Buh bye!”.

[Ciexyz]

BWA HAA HAA!

[samadams2000]

Nice catch. Watch them put on cross’s and wrap themselves in the flag as they go down the tube.

[MaxMax]

Since when do Marxist Atheists celebrate the birth of Christ Our Lord?

It's the day you get things for free from other people. Ring a bell?

[smedley64]

Tragic!</s>

[Doogle]

.."remember, the women get noisey"

[QBFimi]

Newspaper? You're actually buying a local one?

Try the Washington Times weekly edition. Conservative to the hilt. Great.

[hinckley buzzard]

a jobless Christmas for lots of reporters.

That would be a Winter Holiday Season in NYT-speak

Great catch. This is the Slimes. No Christers allowed.

[TASMANIANRED]

And what do you want to bet the paper will be writing rosy forcasts for the economy tomorrow.

[hinckley buzzard]

..."remember, the women get noisey"

BaDaBoom. That's my brother on the right.

[TNdandelion]

If you can find a payphone...it will be more than a quarter. lol Probably .50

[FormerACLUmember]

The arrogant super limousine liberal Pinch (seen here pontificating on Fox's hilarious Red Eye) just fired 8% of his "news" staff.

92% more and I break open the champagne!

[FormerACLUmember]

The NY Times played its role in deceitful manipulation of the public to sneak the evil Obama communist regime into power.

So now 8% of this very same crew has been put out of work by the Obama created depression/recession.

There is at least 8% Justice in this life.

[Vigilanteman]

Go on over to Rockefeller Center and see if NBC is hiring.

Man, that's cruel, but funny as hell!

Why would even ObaMao want to pay this freak show when they do his bidding for free?

[goat granny]

Sigh, I can remember when the phone call was a nickle...:O(

[Wally_Kalbacken]

MoDo - don’ let the do’ hit yo azz on de way out!

[eclecticEel]

meaning a jobless Christmas

Ahem, that has to be a typo. It's supposed to say "jobless winter holiday."

[DannyTN]

Well of course they are laying off.

The Slimes doesn’t need reporters revealing Pentagon and CIA secrets, when Obama is unilaterally disarming. They can’t do any more harm to America than Obama is already doing, so the Slimes is redundant.

[Rsgood Dsbad]

Who cares? Let those commies lose their jobs. They don’t believe in Christmas anyway. They can always go live in China or Cuba or some other commie paradise.

[Rsgood Dsbad]

Right on!

[1010RD]

This just spreads the infection.

[Tunehead54]

C!

About.com: http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/comics/archive/showComick.hts?name=Marvin

Arlo & Janis

B.C.

Ballard Street

Calvin and Hobbes

Dilbert.com - The Official Dilbert Website by Scott Adams - Dilbert, Dogbert and Coworkers!

Doonesbury

Drabble

For Better or For Worse

FoxTrot by Bill Amend

Frank & Ernest

Get Fuzzy

Heathcliff

Luann

Moderately Confused

NB!

Off the Mark

Reality Check

Rose Is Rose

Shoe - The Official Website - macnelly.com

State of the Union

Tank McNamara

The Boondocks

The Born Loser

The Leftersons! - America's Favorite Liberal Family! - Illustrations by Colin T. Hayes

Welcome to uComics Web Site featuring Broom Hilda - Online Comics, Editorial Cartoons, Email Comics, Political Cartoons

Welcome to uComics Web Site featuring Non Sequitur -- Comics Online, Comics, Political Cartoons, Editorial Cartoons, Comics by Email

Wizard of Id

Ziggy

---

Dump your paper if all you want is the comics - for me Sunday AM was always first the comics before the depressing junk. Now, with Firefox I have these in a folder on the shortcut bar - I can select the folder, scroll down and select "Open all in tabs" and then see them all!

Just a quick cut and paste - 1/2 are missing? Just something to get you started ... ;-)