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?

[Bullish]

The old gray lady is more like a two bit whore than any lady, and deserves no respect from us.

You owe two bit whores a huge apology. At least they're not traitors.

[quadrant]

Agreed. Punch was a liberal, but a WWII liberal, not a member of that seedy group of lefties who grew up in the 60's and 70's.

[Bonaparte]

The Ochs-Sulzberger "clan" does not need those dividend checks. Their investments elsewhere bring in plenty and they can prop up the NYT forever, with or without shareholders. The fact is that the left can't allow the NYT to fold. If the Sulzbergers couldn't save it, it would be kept afloat by leftist foundations. Without the NYT, the networks and CNN would have no idea which stories to report, which stories to suppress and what spin to put on things. No, the NYT will not be turning out the lights any time soon.

[juliej]

Me too! I wish they would go out of business or a missle would fly thru their treacherous offices!

[juliej]

Pinch was the one who said he would shoot an American soldier rather than a Vietcong. Nice lad!

[juliej]

I just love how they are now depicting Hezb-Allah, the group that murdered over 200 of our marines in 1983, as a "charitable oranization . . . rebuilding Lebanon". Aren't they lovely? Maybe they can rebuild Pinch's townhouse or his mansion in the Hamptons?

[okie01]

Those are truly rich examples of a media catfight.

Thanks for the links.

[Bonaparte]

LOL! At the NYT, it's a longstanding tradition to sanitize and lionize murderous regimes. Seventy years ago, they were performing this service for Stalin.

[juliej]

Yes, and their reporter, Durante or something like that, denied that there was mass starvation in the Ukraine and won an award for that lie! They are the absolute worst. Even the Washington Post is not as bad as the Slimes and they are pretty bad!

[Bonaparte]

That's right, his name was Walter Durante --

A few will recognize the name of Walter Durante, the New York Times reporter assigned to Soviet Russia in the 1930s to 1950s, who portrayed the bloodthirsty dictator Joseph Stalin as "Uncle Joe" and claimed that everything was better in the Soviet Union. Malcolm Muggeridge and other reporters from other countries were horrified at Durante’s falsified reports of bounty in Soviet Russia at a time when millions were being killed by the Communist tyrants and six million Ukrainians were purposely being starved to death. Durante was eventually exposed, but not before his support for the Communist Soviet system had brought the aid that was needed to keep the evil empire alive for many more years than would have been the case if the truth had been known.

There is hardly a communist dictatorship on earth that has not been sanitized in the "news" by some NYT "correspondent."

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The New York Times should go strictly online. To be fair they have an excellent website.

But why give them any suggestions just let that stinking pile of bricks fall into the Hudson.

[juliej]

Not to mention their love for that "charitable organization" known as Hezb-Allah. I feel sorry for people who get their news from the New York Slimes.

[Bonaparte]

Just about all positions taken by the NYT in their opinion columns (which is to say, in their "news" articles) have one characteristic in common -- knee-jerk anti-Americanism.

[Shooter 2.5]

And Logan is a little Pr!ck.
Rory is a whore and I'm waiting for Lorelei to swallow a bottle of pills.
I can't wait for the next season to start.

[juliej]

I feel sorry for people who read the Slimes expecting to get real "news". They have hit the bottom of the barrel - they actually participate in our destruction. Stalin is smiling.