New York Times Staffers Freaking As Bill Keller Raises The Axe(let it swing, often & hard!)

Business Insider ^ | 12/04/09 | Keith Kelly

[TigerLikesRooster]

New York Times Staffers Freaking As Bill Keller Raises The Axe

Keith Kelly|Dec. 4, 2009, 11:10 PM | 61 |

With just days to go until a Monday deadline, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller yesterday confirmed that he was unlikely to get 100 newsroom volunteers to accept buyouts -- meaning he'll wield the layoff ax for the second time in two years.

Sources said the newsroom was in a state of high anxiety this week because of chatter that just 50 unionized editorial workers from the Newspaper Guild are expected to step forward for voluntary buyouts by the deadline of close of business Monday.

[freekitty]

All they do is turn on their computer to receive the latest memo telling how to write a story.

[dominic flandry]

Liberals are elitist for no good reason. Conservatives should not be. One should not disparage those who work at McDonalds. Work at McDonalds is an honest job. Working for the New York Slimes is not.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I’ll bet everyone the “editors” who gets laid off had at least a master’s degree from a prestige university journalism program and absolutely no real world business experience. And less than zero probability any of them has any military experience whatsoever.

[The Comedian]

Hope and Change comes to the NYT.

Suck on it, losers.

And know that the intellectual and spiritual backbone of America is *laughing* at your overdue demise. I hope with your dying breath, you realize that your Kenyan Caesar is enriching his Soros-style buddies with the soup kitchen money you'll need next month.

Look to him for help, not us.

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Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
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