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46 GET DUMPED IN DEEP CUTS AT NEWSDAY
Nypost ^ | 06/29/04 | KEITH J. KELLY

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hahasuckers; layoffs; liberalmedia; liberalrag; newsday; newspapers
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1 posted on 06/29/2004 9:42:49 AM PDT by Pikamax
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To: Pikamax

Amazing how a left-paper treats their own employees...Oh well - do as I say and not as I do.


2 posted on 06/29/2004 9:45:14 AM PDT by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Pikamax

Now THAT's a good start...


3 posted on 06/29/2004 9:46:25 AM PDT by evad (What's BAD for democRATs is GOOD for America)
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To: Pikamax

Just another trick by the Old Media to increase unemployment before the election.


4 posted on 06/29/2004 9:49:32 AM PDT by bayourod (Can the 9/11 Commission connect the dots on Iraq or do they require a 3-D picture?)
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To: Pikamax
Ahh... my favorate German word: Schadenfreude
5 posted on 06/29/2004 9:50:08 AM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Fabrizio Quattrocchi: "Adesso vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano")
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To: Pikamax
" The list included Fred Bruning, a feature writer and, until recently, the vice president, editorial in the Graphics Communications International Union, which represented the company's unionized journalists."

Hmmmm.

6 posted on 06/29/2004 9:50:31 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Constitution Day

Post the Shad Freud graphic.


7 posted on 06/29/2004 9:53:22 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( aka Gassybrowneyedbum)
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To: Rebelbase

-n-


8 posted on 06/29/2004 9:56:33 AM PDT by Constitution Day (SHAD-N-FREUD!)
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To: Pikamax
"Unfortunately," said Jansen, "It was necessary to lay off six people in other departments and eliminate their jobs."

They probably laid off the only 6 conservatives who worked at the paper.

9 posted on 06/29/2004 9:57:06 AM PDT by Libertarian444
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To: So Cal Rocket

Der Schadenfreuden es der Shaft und Frauden......


10 posted on 06/29/2004 9:57:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Semper Fidelis.......To God, Corps and Country..........................)
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To: Pikamax

T'aint no fun working in a sunset industry.


11 posted on 06/29/2004 9:58:28 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Don't blame me. I voted for Sharpton.)
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To: Pikamax

There's no Pravda in Pravda. Except in this case, New Yorkers don't have to buy Pravda, they have a choice.


12 posted on 06/29/2004 10:00:13 AM PDT by Petronski (I'm **NOT** always **CRANKY**.)
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Sources at the paper said the voluntary buyouts included 17 editorial people.

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.

13 posted on 06/29/2004 10:00:59 AM PDT by KellyAdmirer
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To: So Cal Rocket

14 posted on 06/29/2004 10:01:04 AM PDT by Petronski (I'm **NOT** always **CRANKY**.)
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To: Pikamax

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.


15 posted on 06/29/2004 10:06:32 AM PDT by bad company ((<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">Hatriotism))
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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.

"What-you-said" bump!

16 posted on 06/29/2004 10:06:54 AM PDT by talleyman (Communists go home - Reagan beat you, remember?)
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To: KellyAdmirer

their self-fulfilling prophecies have come home to roost...


17 posted on 06/29/2004 10:07:42 AM PDT by Jasper Willowtree
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"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.


18 posted on 06/29/2004 10:09:25 AM PDT by agitator (...And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark)
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And the good news just keeps on coming!

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.

19 posted on 06/29/2004 10:23:16 AM PDT by G.Mason (A war mongering, red white and blue, military industrial complex, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
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"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?


20 posted on 06/29/2004 10:35:31 AM PDT by Jasper Willowtree
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