N.Y.Times to layoff 4% of work force

"Stuff" © Fairfax New Zealand Limited 2005. ^ | September 21, 2005 | Reuters

[Jan Hus]

"NEW YORK: New York Times Co yesterday said it would cut about 4 per cent of its work force, or 500 jobs, and warned that weaker newspaper advertising and rising costs could reduce earnings to less than half of Wall Street forecasts this quarter."

[Jan Hus]

Forty Jobs (40) are coming out of the Newsroom Floor.BTW the "Slimes" announced that their Opinion Section will become a subscriber service.I wonder who "Pinch" will be throwing over the side? Maureen,Rich,or Herbert? "More I cannot wish them"

[SteveMcKing]

Here come michael moore to storm their offices and demand answers!

Oh wait, it's liberals laying people off. He ain't showing.

[Biblebelter]

Obviously, we cannot allow the NY Slimes to be subjected to market forces. Someone needs to call for socialized newspapers at least that is, for those newspapers run by socialists who cannot put out a competitive product in the marketplace.

[MJY1288]

Why not 100%?

[Troublemaker]

500 sounds so much better than 4%.

[A6M3]

Yea. I hope this is just another step in the New York Times' ultimate demise.

[Sgt_Schultze]

NYT Motto: All the news that's $h!+, we print.

[LdSentinal]

Why didn't Willie Green post this article?

[Larry Lucido]

How does the NYT keep 12,500 people busy?

[Blue Jays]

Hi LdSentinal-

"...Why didn't Willie Green post this article?..."

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Willie Green wasn't pinged to the article above or otherwise wasn't aware of it.

~ Blue Jays ~

[skikvt]

It's a slippery slope their on now. They'll have to start putting half nekkid photos of Jessica Simpson on page one now, with headlines like, "Is it over between her an Nick?", just to compete with the other tabloids.

[Petronski]

[Petronski]

Here come michael moore to storm...

Moore doesn't storm anything but his pants (with help of a 12-pack of strohs and the family-pak curry chicken 'de-lite')...

[goldstategop]

And Little Pinch is charging $50 for readers to read liberal columnists no one cares about. Go figure.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[quantim]

Just beautiful.

[Xenophon450]

All Bush's FAULT!!!!! Thank you GW :)

[clee1]

They stay busy lying to themselves and each other.

[bitt]

gee...let's not all crash the sign-up page, now....

so bugmenot will no longer suffice?

We should have JimRob get ONE account for all FReepers to use -

username: Freeper
password: honorandcountry

[Buzwardo]

Perhaps some constructive solutions are in order here. Maybe the NYT should raise the price of a paper to $5.00 and devote the increased revenue to rehiring these employees. Should work as well as the tax increases the old gray hag relentlessly advocates, just ask Krugman.

[msnimje]

Shouldn't that be "Work FARCE?"