Throwing Pinch Overboard

The American Thinker ^ | 16 August 2006 | Thomas Lifson

[Kitten Festival]

It has finally happened. The left is beginning to turn against New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., known far and wide as “Pinch.” It is simple to understand why: the New York Times is becoming a failing business under his stewardship, and the Left needs the NYT.

Faithful readers of The American Thinker have known this for over two years, as we have chronicled the journalistic and economic decline of the New York Times Company. We started warning investors that their money was at risk before the common stock lost half its value. We slogged through to SEC reports, pushed the numbers, and proved the shocking decline of the core business and major profit center of the company, its metropolitan print edition.

But it is one thing for websites “out there” beyond the Hudson to point out that Pinch is killing the family business, and quite another for the man dubbed “the King of New York Media” by The New Republic to point out that disaster looms ahead for members of the Ochs-Sulzberger clan, who cash dividend checks, and who also control the election for the board of directors. They might start thinking seriously about the attractiveness of professional management for the enterprise which sustains what must be a sophsiticated and pleasant lifestyle.

Michael Wolff, longtime writer for New York Magazine, took to the pages of no less than Vanity Fair, the glossy definition of au courant attitudes for New Yorkers of a certain economic and social status, to openly mock Pinch in what can only be described as a “hit-piece.”

What gives?

[Grampa Dave]

How many Freepers, who hate the NY Slimes, are supporting the NY Slimes with their mutual funds. Without mutual funds owning the NY Slimes non voting stock, the NYT would be in real trouble.

How do I find out if my mutual funds own NYT Stock, and what can I do if they do?

Here is something, we can all do today to start eliminating the NY Slimes as a threat to our nation's security. We can do it at our computers and do it in less than 1 hour. Besides sending a severe warning to the NY Slimes and the mutual fund companies, who buy NY Slimes stock, we will stop the fund company wasting our precious investment capital on NY Slimes stock.

If a few thousand freepers did this simple action this week and a few thousand new freepers, friends and relatives each following week, we will have a terminal impact on the NY Slimes acts of sedition. Please send this how to your blogs, friends, relatives and email lists. This action will serve as a cannon shot across the bows fo the other Dinosaur Liberal Fish Wraps re sedition will not be tolerated any more, and any mutual fund daring to buy their stock to support treason and sedition by the NY Slimes.

TODAY, SELL/TRADE MUTUAL FUNDS OWNING NYT!!!:

 

Want to smash the NY Slimes?
Check your mutual funds to see if they own NYT, the NY Slimes Stock

 

 

How many of us own mutual funds which own NY Slimes stock and even worse have increased their NYT holdings this year.

NYT investment by a mutual fund company is a terrible investment re the dollar loss in Stock value the last 2 years. Those investments are an attempt to keep the NY Slimes afloat with our mutual fund $'s.

Now it is very evident that the NY Slimes is an agent and abettor of the al Qaeda Serial Killers. The Slimes is endangering the lives of our families, friends, innocent Americans and every warrior of ours.

Go to this link to see if your mutual fund owns NYT.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/ownership/ownership.asp

When the MS Money stock home page comes up, enter NYT into the search area and hit enter and the following screen will show up re ownership of the NY Slimes stock:

The New York Times Company: Ownership Information

• Shares Outstanding 145.00 Mil
  
  
• Institutional Ownership (%) 83.40
  
  
• Top 10 Institutions (%) 58.60
  
  
• Mutual Fund Ownership (%) 42.64
  
  
• 5%/Insider Ownership (%) 7.77
  
  
• Float (%)
  
  

Highlight the Mutual Fund Ownership and hit enter.

If thousands of Freepers, whose mutual funds own shares of NY Slimes did the following:

1. Sell those mutual funds or trade them for funds not owning NYT.
   
   
2. Send a letter to the fund managers and the CEO's of the mutual fund company telling them why you sold/transferred their mutual fund owning NY Slimes stock. Then demand to know why they are wasting your precious $'s on a treasonous/seditious company which is a terrible investment.
   
   
3. Contact the SEC to investigate why this mutual fund and mutual fund company invested your $'s in one of the worse investments of the past 2 years. On 21 July 2006, NYT closed at the low for this decade. If your mutual fund owns, NYT, was the investment of yours and others a political bailout of the NY Slimes?
   
   The link below will take you to the SEC site and enable you to use the email form shown on this page. Or you can print the form, fill it out and mail it to the SEC.

   
   https://tts.sec.gov/acts-ics/do/complaint

   
   

4. Send this how to re Mutual Funds with NYT stock to everyone on your email list for a wakeup call.
   
   

We might have a lot more impact selling/trading any mutual fund, which owns NYT, than trying to boycott companies which sell to the elite liberals of NYC and advertise in the NY Slimes.

TODAY, SELL/TRADE MUTUAL FUNDS OWNING NYT!!!:

 

Want to smash the NY Slimes?
Check your mutual funds to see if they own NYT, the NY Slimes Stock

 

 

How many of us own mutual funds which own NY Slimes stock and even worse have increased their NYT holdings this year.

NYT investment by a mutual fund company is a terrible investment re the dollar loss in Stock value the last 2 years. Those investments are an attempt to keep the NY Slimes afloat with our mutual fund $'s.

Now it is very evident that the NY Slimes is an agent and abettor of the al Qaeda Serial Killers. The Slimes is endangering the lives of our families, friends, innocent Americans and every warrior of ours.

Go to this link to see if your mutual fund owns NYT.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/ownership/ownership.asp

When the MS Money stock home page comes up, enter NYT into the search area and hit enter and the following screen will show up re ownership of the NY Slimes stock:

The New York Times Company: Ownership Information

• Shares Outstanding 145.00 Mil
  
  
• Institutional Ownership (%) 83.40
  
  
• Top 10 Institutions (%) 58.60
  
  
• Mutual Fund Ownership (%) 42.64
  
  
• 5%/Insider Ownership (%) 7.77
  
  
• Float (%)
  
  

Highlight the Mutual Fund Ownership and hit enter.

If thousands of Freepers, whose mutual funds own shares of NY Slimes did the following:

1. Sell those mutual funds or trade them for funds not owning NYT.
   
   
2. Send a letter to the fund managers and the CEO's of the mutual fund company telling them why you sold/transferred their mutual fund owning NY Slimes stock. Then demand to know why they are wasting your precious $'s on a treasonous/seditious company which is a terrible investment.
   
   
3. Contact the SEC to investigate why this mutual fund and mutual fund company invested your $'s in one of the worse investments of the past 2 years. On 21 July 2006, NYT closed at the low for this decade. If your mutual fund owns, NYT, was the investment of yours and others a political bailout of the NY Slimes?
   
   The link below will take you to the SEC site and enable you to use the email form shown on this page. Or you can print the form, fill it out and mail it to the SEC.

   
   https://tts.sec.gov/acts-ics/do/complaint

   
   

4. Send this how to re Mutual Funds with NYT stock to everyone on your email list for a wakeup call.
   
   

We might have a lot more impact selling/trading any mutual fund, which owns NYT, than trying to boycott companies which sell to the elite liberals of NYC and advertise in the NY Slimes.

[libstripper]

Here's a link to the Vanity Fair article that's discussed here:

http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/060814roco02

This is the FR thread where that article's posted:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683463/posts

[meandog]

If you want to read more about Pinch Saltzberger, I suggest THE TRUST by Susan Tifft and Alex Jones. They relate that Pinch decided to grant domestic partners benefits to same sex couples despite his father's opposition and then deceived the old man about the issue.

Yep, "Pinch" is a mere reflection of "Punch" all right. Punch was a liberal who published the Pentagon Papers but at least he paid his dues during WWII as an enlisted Marine. Pinch, OTOH, is just a rich kid.

[Uncledave]

The fear in the newsroom is that the first thing to be given up will be bodies—fire enough people and earnings improve and stock creeps up and that takes immediate pressure off management. (It’s already begun: “There’s no money here,” hissed a reporter to me recently in what had been a little gossip about expense accounts.)

But if that’s not enough—and it never is enough—then what’s next is more independent board members, followed by little changes in the nature of control, and then asset sales, and lots of secret meetings among family members on the subject of what to do about Arthur, and then a plan afoot to take the title of publisher from him, and on and on … until … the powers that be face the dreadful discrepancy between the declining fortunes of business as usual and a more probable upside of dismantling, selling, and letting the market have its certain way.

Sheer joy

[Enterprise]

In reading the article, it appears that no way, no how, would I like to see Pinch removed. If he is steering the N.Y. Titanic towards the iceberg, leave him alone. He's doing just fine.

[abb]

You people will want to read the catfight that's broken out between Michael Wolff and Charles Kaiser, another of the media Intelligensia.

Here
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=11724
and here
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=11725

[firebrand]

And check for states that sponsor terrorism while you're at it.

[jiggyboy]

Anyone who understands the importance of the Times in setting the agenda for the entire media establishment realizes that without the Times to lead the way, lesser media properties in broadcasting and publishing might stray away from the left wing party line...Virtually the entire media establishment, from home town dailies to network newscasts, takes its cues from the Times.

John Stossel (of ABC) said that when he was working for one of the NYC TV stations (WCBS?) early in his career, the day would start with the station's News Editor cutting articles out of the front page of that morning's NYT and passing them out. "Here's your story for the day, get some good video to go with it."

[petercooper]

I think their About.com subsidiary is keeping them afloat for now.

[Liz]

"Yoo-hoo---P-i-n-c-h---where are you?"

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

We started warning investors that their money was at risk before the common stock lost half its value. We slogged through to SEC reports, pushed the numbers, and proved the shocking decline of the core business and major profit center of the company, its metropolitan print edition.

Well if you actually knew it, you sold short and are rolling in the dough right now - so why are you complaining?

[geezerwheezer]

I'm looking forward to the day when Pinch and the Times both go bye-bye! The old gray lady is more like a two bit whore than any lady, and deserves no respect from us.

[Lexinom]

Miniature Pinscher?

[95 Bravo]

A jukebox? Why waste a valuable piece of machinery on the little puke? A junk refrigerator would do just as well.
I'm drowning in crocodile tears at the prospect of his (business)demise.

[Enchante]

I thought you were going to say that the NY Times should simply dump all its attempts to provide content and convert all its paper output simply to "all toilet paper, all the time"..... but they would still be too expensive and too uncomfortable compared to Charmin, so maybe the Crossword puzzle idea is their best option....

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The rest of the media has done an excellent job of ignoring this major scandal. The man who sets the standards for the standard-setting newspaper, on which they model their own professionalism, has admitted to being a liar. And covering it up.

. . . following the "eleventh commandment" - Thou shalt not question the objectivity of any journalist.

[abb]

NYT close to another 52 week low, even as the Dow was up nearly 100 points today...
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=NYT

[Milhous]

Every little podunk paper in the country takes its lead from the fabled times, because every newspaper editor in the country dreams of being hired by the old grey whore.

Ode to an Old Grey Whore:

Nag, nag

you old grey hag

you stinking slimy slut

you've got flies

upon your thighs

and worms crawlin out of your butt

[Milhous]

You people will want to read the catfight that's broken out between Michael Wolff and Charles Kaiser, another of the media Intelligensia.

Most entertaining! Thanks. Wolff's terrible Times syndrome seems remarkably similar to the terrible twos. LOL.

[Bullish]

Ditto that!