Posted on 06/29/2004 9:42:49 AM PDT by Pikamax
June 29, 2004 -- Newsday whacked its editorial and operations staff by 46 people, making the cuts among the deepest absorbed yet by any in Tribune Co.'s relentless cost-cutting drive. Newsday Publisher Ray Jansen said that approximately 40 union and non-union employees in the operations and editorial departments had accepted the paper's voluntary buyout offers.
But the paper apparently had to dig deeper than the 40 volunteers to satisfy the corporate cost cutting mandate from Chicago. "Unfortunately," said Jansen, "It was necessary to lay off six people in other departments and eliminate their jobs."
The paper is wasting no time showing the volunteers the door. The last day for those employees is tomorrow. Said one former Newsday hand: "The happy days are completely dead now. They are fearful that this is only the beginning — that they'll be counting nickels, dimes and pencils next."
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Amazing how a left-paper treats their own employees...Oh well - do as I say and not as I do.
Now THAT's a good start...
Just another trick by the Old Media to increase unemployment before the election.
Hmmmm.
Post the Shad Freud graphic.
They probably laid off the only 6 conservatives who worked at the paper.
Der Schadenfreuden es der Shaft und Frauden......
T'aint no fun working in a sunset industry.
There's no Pravda in Pravda. Except in this case, New Yorkers don't have to buy Pravda, they have a choice.
Well, I can understand why they are targetting the editorial people. Don't really need to pay someone to do editorials or edit copy at Newsday, plenty of free volunteers at the DNC to help out with that, and it won't change the paper's tone a bit.
I was just sitting here trying to remember the last time I picked up a newsday, and I can't remember. That is bad considering the news junkie that I am.
"What-you-said" bump!
their self-fulfilling prophecies have come home to roost...
"Unfortunately," said Jansen, "It was necessary to lay off six people in other departments and eliminate their jobs."
I'd like to know why people are STILL using the term "lay off." That term related to people in cyclical industries, usually union workers, who were likely to be re-hired when business picked up. These people weren't "laid off" they were axed, canned, sacked, terminated, or FIRED.
After all, just how many propagandists does one need, once they know the script by heart? Hell, the lithographer could write the entire rag. All he/she would have to do is change the date & the weather.
"And the good news just keeps on coming"
circulation scandal(s)...news has been out there for months...how come it hasn't been in the headlines like: prisoner abuse scandal, corporate scandal, martha stewart scandal?
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