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Having Won a Pulitzer for Exposing Data Mining, Times Now Eager to Do Its Own Data Mining by Keach Hagey May 1st, 2007 Barely a year after their reporters won a Pulitzer prize for exposing data mining of ordinary citizens by a government spy agency, New York Times officials had some exciting news for stockholders last week: The Times company plans to do its own data mining of ordinary citizens, in the name of online profits. The news didn't make everyone all googly-eyed. In fact, some people at the paper's annual stockholders meeting in the New Amsterdam Theatre exchanged confused...

March 15, 2007 -- Even steep losses at The New York Times didn't stop its family owners from enriching themselves and insiders with bonuses for making "profits" when there were none. Although its board acknowledged in filings yesterday that the media company lost $3.76 per share in 2006, directors revised its bottom-line bonus formula to exclude embarrassing write-downs, converting millions in losses into instant profits of $1.58 per share. [snip] However, citing the tough year ahead for the Times, Sulzberger turned it down and instead took just a $560,521 cash bonus - the same amount of his cash bonus from...

Top New York Times [NYT] Co. executives Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and Janet Robinson took in more than $4 million each in compensation packages last year while planning as many as 125 job cuts in Massachusetts. Even as Times Co. shares slid by nearly 8 percent last year, CEO Robinson’s salary rose 11 percent to $1 million. That brings it “more in line” with the salaries of CEOs at similar companies, the Times Co. said in its annual proxy statement released yesterday. Sulzberger, chairman and publisher of the company, received a compensation package valued around $4.3 million and Robinson’s compensation was...

New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger tells Haaretz.com that he's not sure if the Old Gray Lady will even be producing a print edition five years from now. This is being dictated, apparently, by the digital revolution, which they ostensibly blame for their industry's overall decline.

New York Times Co. (NYT) Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and other members of the family that controls the newspaper publisher held talks with a trusted financial adviser about taking the company private, according to a report on the Web site of BusinessWeek magazine.

The New York Times Co. reeled yesterday from a 39 percent drop in profits as it came under a surprise attack from liberal politicians for gutting and damaging its sister Boston Globe...... pressure mounted on chief Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger to plug a drain of newspaper ad dollars being steadily siphoned away by the Internet. The profits bomb came as Sulzberger got scolded yesterday by a group of prominent politicians and business leaders in Boston, led by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), claiming Sulzberger and his team have committed a "terrible shame" by gutting the paper since acquiring it in 1993. In...

Henry Mark Holzer, writing in Front Page Magazine, makes the very strong case that the New York Times will be indicted for violating the Espionage Act for publication of details helpful to the enemy in the story of wiretapping of internatrional phone calls involving an American end of the conversation. I won’t bother to recapitulate his points because he makes them concisely and you should follow the link. Should indictments be brought, the resulting prosecution and possible trial (I don’t rule out plea agreements once the defendants grasp the prison terms awaiting them and the strength of the case against...

Writing the history of our time in song. MIDI - END OF THE WORLD Poor Taliban's big commander He's gone and that's too d*mn bad The New York Times sees the end of the world Pinchy, the quisling poofer's sad Where is the big Spring offensive His readers really are mad The New York Times sees the end of the world And Pinchy, the quisling poofer's sad He wakes up in the morning and he wonders How can he hurt our country today He calls a spook source and is screaming, of course I need some secrets right away! What...

It has finally happened. The left is beginning to turn against New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., known far and wide as “Pinch.” It is simple to understand why: the New York Times is becoming a failing business under his stewardship, and the Left needs the NYT. Faithful readers of The American Thinker have known this for over two years, as we have chronicled the journalistic and economic decline of the New York Times Company. We started warning investors that their money was at risk before the common stock lost half its value. We slogged through to SEC...

The famous Sulzberger dynasty is quietly tightening its financial grip on the New York Times and the Boston Globe, a new analysis shows. And it’s using shareholders’ cash, instead of its own, to do it. A Herald examination of Times financial filings shows that since Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger Jr. took over as chairman in 1997, The New York Times Co. has bought up almost one-third of the stock held by outsiders. Meanwhile the Sulzbergers themselves have “basically held their shares,” says company spokeswoman Catherine Mathis. And so, without spending a dime, the storied newspaper dynasty has raised its stake to...

July 2, 2006Biased Times And Post Badmouth Bush The New York Times has done it again – laced Uncle Sam’s feet in a sack for the race between liberty and terrorism.  It revealed last week a secret monitoring program for international electronic bank transfers between Al Queda cells.This was done legally with cooperation of the Brussels-based Worldwide Interbank for Financial Telecommunication.  The “Gray Lady” of journalism (so called presumably for venerable age) considered this an encore for a similar, irresponsible revelation last December.  In that, the Times asserted the National Security Agency (NSA) was tapping illegally into telephone calls...

'MISBEGOTTEN' TIMES(NARROWNESS, MR. SULZBERGER, NOT WIDTH) PINCH'S NON-APOLOGY APOLOGY by Mia T, July 18, 2006 WAR AND TREASON AND THE NEW YORK TIMES by Mia T, December 29, 2005       inch Sulzberger scurried to the C-SPAN confessional even as the fires raged under the mammoth heap of ash and twisted steel that was once the Twin Towers and 2801 human beings. He had to make certain no one would blame The New York Times. The Times' 1996 endorsement of bill clinton1 was the problem. The endorsement, you may recall, was contingent on clinton getting a brain transplant--specifically of...

WHY BIN LADEN WANTS HOME DELIVERY OF THE NEW YORK TIMESby Mia T, 7.11.06 IN A 'PINCH': RETHINKING THE FIRST AMENDMENT(Which came first, the 'journalist' or the traitor?) by Mia T, 6.27.06 "What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." James Madison hen the founders granted 'The Press' special dispensation, they never considered the possibility that traitors in our midst would game the system. But that is precisely what...

NY Times Reporter Body Armor Vulnerability Analysis Author: Red Square, Location: Karl Marx Treatment Center Post Posted: 7/8/2006, 3:30 pm Earlier this year the New York Times courageously exposed vulnerabilities of US body armor, accompanying the story with a controversial diagram and a leaked Pentagon paper in a PDF file, identifying the best areas to shoot at. Today the Pentagon responded by releasing a diagram that details vulnerabilities of the New York Times journalists, which analysts predict is about to become the focus of a new media fury. "The Pentagon released the results of their secret research despite our strongest...

WASHINGTON, DC, MONDAY, JULY 3, 2006--The D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com and the online watchdog Accuracy in Media (www.AIM.org) held a press conference and demonstration Monday at the Washington, D.C., bureau of the New York Times to protest the newspaper's publishing of stories exposing national security intelligence programs. The two conservative groups called for the prosecution of New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Executive Editor Bill Keller and reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau for "giving aid and comfort to al-Qaida." The initial group of 14 FReepers, led by FreeRepublic's National Spokesman Kristinn Taylor, soon swelled to 29 protesters. They...

IN A 'PINCH': RETHINKING THE FIRST AMENDMENT(Which came first, the 'journalist' or the traitor?) by Mia T, 6.27.06 hen the founders granted 'The Press' special dispensation, they never considered the possibility that traitors in our midst would game the system. But that is precisely what is happening today. (Hate America? Support jihad? Become a 'journalist!') This was bound to happen. The premise behind the First Amendment as it applies to the press--that a vigilant watchdog is necessary, sufficient--indeed, possible--to protect against man's basest instincts--is tautologically flawed: The fox guarding the White House, if you will. Walter Lippmann, the 20th-century...

PINCH SULZBERGER, PEARL HARBOR + TREASONWHY WE MUST PROSECUTE THE NEW YORK TIMES by Mia T, 06.26.06       hy must we prosecute Pinch Sulzberger and The New York Times? The answer is really quite simple. And it is independent of the legalities1. It must be independent of the legalities. Prosecuting Sulzberger and the Times is both a moral and a survival imperative: If we don't prosecute them, if we declare Sulzberger and the Times untouchable by virtue of their press status, it follows that anyone intent on doing this country harm can simply call himself 'the press'...

N.Y. Times Shares Decline on Downgrade Friday June 9, 5:05 pm ET New York Times Shares Fall 1.6 Percent Following Analyst Downgrade NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of The New York Times Co. fell Friday after an analyst at Goldman Sachs downgraded the stock to "underperform." Shares of the company, which also owns The Boston Globe and The International Herald Tribune, fell 38 cents, or 1.6 percent, to close at $23.66 Friday on the New York Stock Exchange, after falling to a 52-week low of $23.13 earlier in the session. Peter Appert, a newspaper industry analyst at Goldman Sachs, downgraded...

The announcement of the three carefully orchestrated suicides of the terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay arrived in that packet of news briefs on Fox with little accompanying fanfare. Just a how do you do and an update out of that small bit of democratic America on that great big island of oppression where the liberals grow teary eyed about Fidel’s marvelous health care system, where a toothy Jimmy Carter’s photo also hangs on the murderous Mr. Castro’s wall, and where Mr. Chavez often calls. Sadly, like so many deaths which had preceded these, they were choreographed to maximize their attention...

Kincaid: "Mr. Chairman. My name is Cliff Kincaid with Accuracy in Media. I will wait before getting into the praise and criticism I have of the paper's journalistic and editorial processes. But on the matter of business operations, this is a shareholders meeting, and I think it's about time that the company level with the shareholders about how much money was paid to Judith Miller in her controversial severance package. What is that figure?" Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger: "Mr. Kincaid, we actually don't discuss the specifics of any employee's salary or compensation or severance. But I do believe in the...