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TIME INC. LAYS OFF 250
Media Works News...AdAge ^ | April 07, 2006 | Nat Ives

Posted on 04/07/2006 11:09:26 AM PDT by george76

Mid-Level Business Staffers Hit Hardest...

Time Inc. eliminated another 250 jobs today in its latest, largest and, perhaps, last round of cutbacks.

The mid-level and junior-level workers shown the door almost all came from the business side of operations at a long list of titles.

"As Time Inc. continues to evolve from a magazine publisher to a multiplatform media company, we're continuing to look at our cost base and how to run our business more efficiently and effectively.

In doing so, unfortunately, we've had to eliminate a number of positions."

"But it's not just about cost cutting," Ms. Zelenko added...

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


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To: george76

Are their journalists embedded with Al Qeada getting the cut?

And some might think I'm joking but I'm not. Frontline did a report on "The Insurgency" and interviewed such journalists.


41 posted on 04/07/2006 11:41:48 AM PDT by weegee ("CBS NEWS? Is that show still on?" - freedomson)
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To: kjo

It is junk.

I do not even see Time or Newsweek any more.


42 posted on 04/07/2006 11:42:26 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Time-Warner? They publish DC Comics and Mad Magazine, right?

Maybe they need to stick to funnybooks, they certainly don't have what it takes to report news.


43 posted on 04/07/2006 11:42:57 AM PDT by weegee ("CBS NEWS? Is that show still on?" - freedomson)
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To: george76

Scary thing is that most libraries (including schools) get this magazine and it becomes "research material" for young minds full of mush writing about current events and recent history.


44 posted on 04/07/2006 11:44:01 AM PDT by weegee ("CBS NEWS? Is that show still on?" - freedomson)
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To: Petronski

Rush actually used that word on his show today when talking about Time laying people off.


45 posted on 04/07/2006 11:44:21 AM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Real Leaders Base Their Decisions on Their Convictions. Wannabes Base Decisions on the Latest Poll.)
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To: kinghorse

Think of the forests that could be saved if Time-LIfE stopped publishing.


46 posted on 04/07/2006 11:44:38 AM PDT by weegee ("CBS NEWS? Is that show still on?" - freedomson)
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To: JackDanielsOldNo7
I am happy when liberal establishments come crashing down. I would rejoice to see liberals at abortion clinics lose their jobs. But I guess in your world those people losing their jobs would be a sad thing?

Whether its performing abortions or writing articles singing the praises of the practice along with other liberal dogmas, I have no problem being happy about the demise of liberal strongholds.

I am doing back flips of joy seeing this. I am LMAO!! I think it is funny to see a magazine that spreads lies and hate fall to pieces. These people deserve to be mocked and ridiculed. They are reaping what they have sown.

If you don't think its funny, don't laugh. But you will not steal my joy in seeing one of the enemy's of this country fall.
47 posted on 04/07/2006 11:46:57 AM PDT by texan75010
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To: george76
But it's not just about cost cutting," Ms. Zelenko added...

...it's also about bizarre scare stories on global warming.
48 posted on 04/07/2006 11:47:52 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Euro-American Scum; JackDanielsOldNo7
And it was a sad day when the buggy whip industry downsized.

If the company wasn't being run into the ground, they'd still be profitable. Newsstands are chocked full of magazines.

Mega bookstores are bigger than ever. Time is a high profile magazine. If sales are down, it certainly isn't because no one knows about them.

It's like blaming "payola" or "Clear Channel" for Bruce Springsteen or Michael Jackson's new album flopping.
49 posted on 04/07/2006 11:48:22 AM PDT by weegee ("CBS NEWS? Is that show still on?" - freedomson)
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To: george76

Works for me... :-)


50 posted on 04/07/2006 11:48:34 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (If you don't want to be lumped in with those who commit violence in your name, take steps to end it.)
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To: Red Badger

Artist: The Chambers Brothers
Song: Time Has Come Today

Time has come today
Young hearts can go their way
Can't put it off another day
I don't care what others say
They say we don't listen anyway
Time has come today
(Hey)

Oh
The rules have changed today (Hey)
I have no place to stay (Hey)
I'm thinking about the subway (Hey)
My love has flown away (Hey)
My tears have come and gone (Hey)
Oh my Lord, I have to roam (Hey)
I have no home (Hey)
I have no home (Hey)

Now the time has come (Time)
There's no place to run (Time)
I might get burned up by the sun (Time)
But I had my fun (Time)
I've been loved and put aside (Time)
I've been crushed by the tumbling tide (Time)
And my soul has been psychedelicized (Time)

(Time)
Now the time has come (Time)
There are things to realize (Time)
Time has come today (Time)
Time has come today (Time)

Time [x11]

Oh
Now the time has come (Time)
There's no place to run (Time)
I might get burned up by the sun (Time)
But I had my fun (Time)
I've been loved and put aside (Time)
I've been crushed by tumbling tide (Time)
And my soul has been psychedelicized (Time)

(Time)
Now the time has come (Time)
There are things to realize (Time)
Time has come today (Time)
Time has come today (Time)

Time [x4]
Yeah


51 posted on 04/07/2006 11:49:06 AM PDT by abb (Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
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To: texan75010

When the Berlin Wall came down, some guards lost their jobs.


52 posted on 04/07/2006 11:49:07 AM PDT by weegee ("CBS NEWS? Is that show still on?" - freedomson)
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To: martin_fierro

Perhaps a new marketing approach is needed for MSM. A few suggestions from a news consumer might be helpful:

state fact not opinion within "news stories" (including sports pages)

save editorializing for that department, do not reprint DNC talking points as factual representations of historical events

get that 'foreign correspondent' desk going again, but this time assign them to American small towns & cities - because flyover country is a foreign concept to MSM.

In essence try giving facts and truth within a story. Who knows the MSM may save a job or two with this new concept.


53 posted on 04/07/2006 11:49:54 AM PDT by BlessedByLiberty (Respectfully submitted,)
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To: weegee
If global warming was shown to be caused by the sun and not CO2 then a lot of scientists would lose their funding and their kids would go hungry.
54 posted on 04/07/2006 11:51:01 AM PDT by texan75010
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To: Liz
The problem with the old media is not new. There was a time when nearly all towns larger than 50,000 in population had two newspapers. One paper was liberal the other conservative.

Then came movies, Radio and TV. There were new things to take up the former reading time. So first the smaller cities and finally the bigger ones became one newspaper towns. At the same time the number of magazines declined. There was a time (pardon the pun) when Look, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post had large circulations.

Eighteen years ago Talk Radio hit the scene as the Reagan appointed FCC removed the regulations making political talk radio illegal. That made the way for Rush and other talk shows that gave the right a voice and reduced the time people spent reading news and listening to main stream media news and commentary.

In the last decade the Internet has competed for a reader's time. And the print media as well as the major networks have lost audience.

We are almost back to the days before Radio.. when the media consisted of both left and right biased outlets. The days of the left only outlets are nearly gone.

It is interesting to note that during the days when both left and right wing newspapers existed in most markets, the Republicans dominated politics. From its birth in the 1860s until the 1930s Republicans mostly dominated national politics. Then came the move to a media that was biased to the left. During that period the Democrats mostly held sway in national politics.

Now we are getting back to a media where both the left and the right positions are available to all those who are interested. Once again Republicans have become the dominate party in national affairs.

That should tell the Democrats something.. but I doubt if they get the message.

55 posted on 04/07/2006 11:54:14 AM PDT by Common Tator
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To: JackDanielsOldNo7
What is so funny about people losing their jobs? Liberal or not.

Unfortunately, that's a sample of the character of far too many people who frequent FR these days.

56 posted on 04/07/2006 11:54:48 AM PDT by Wolfstar (You can't tell me it all ends in a slow ride in a hearse...No, this can't be all there is...)
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To: JackDanielsOldNo7
"What is so funny about people losing their jobs? Liberal or not"

Like in most cases there will be people who had no input into some of the anti-American activities that will lose their job and that is a shame. Time Inc was one of my most corrupt customers when I worked for one of their suppliers. In Dallas TX one of their vendors had a female customer service rep. whose sole job was to fully service one Time's big shots. By fully service you know what I mean.

57 posted on 04/07/2006 11:54:59 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (The difference between democrats and terrorists is the terrorists don't claim to support the troops)
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To: JackDanielsOldNo7; DoughtyOne
Pass the Kleenex so I can wipe my tears... of laughter.

What is so funny about people losing their jobs? Liberal or not.

The article said the layoffs were mostly from the business side of operations. These people are likely less liberal on average than the ones working on the "creative" side of things.

Most of them should be able to find other opportunities -- if not in new media (i.e. Internet businesses that are eating Time's lunch), then in the general economy. Business skills are usually transferable.
58 posted on 04/07/2006 11:55:48 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

If they live in New York City, they're probably liberal even if they are the business end.


59 posted on 04/07/2006 11:58:47 AM PDT by BW2221
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To: JZelle

"Floyd Rules!"

Yes they do ...

Maybe a better song for the Time mag. folks would be:


If you didn't care what happened to me,
and I didn't care for you,
we would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain,
occasionally glancing up through the rain
wondering which of the buggers to blame
and watching for pigs on the wing.


60 posted on 04/07/2006 11:59:37 AM PDT by MaDeuce (Do it to them, before they do it to you! (MaDuce = M2HB .50 BMG))
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