The real question should be, given their socialistic tendencies, how much of their yearly salary are the "rich" NY Times Op-Ed writers willing to give up to keep these "working class" people on? Krugman? Herbert? Dowd? Rich? Any takers? Anybody?
Are those crickets I hear?
And to some extent these very people and their editorial backers are complicit in the woes that the Grey lady finds itself in. The fact is conservatives gave up on this paper long ago. So that left moderates and flaming liberals supporting to some degree or another the Slimes circulation. But all has changed in the last ten years where we saw a huge change in technology especially information technology coupled with the advent of FNC and other mediums that has provided a forum for more reasoned moderate, conservative and libertarian ideas not seen in most dailies in a long time. This new paradyne has forced the Slime and other like minded papers to cater even more to their base: Rabid left wing idiologues in order to protect their subscription audience or what's left of it. In the end there will be no cheerleaders for the Slime. Libs eat their own in the end. The Slime will have to come to terms that it is not what it used to be. It is living off the residual Goodwill of it's own venerable past as the newspaper of record. Old man Sultzberger must be spinning in his grave!