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New York Times Newsroom To Walk Out After Editors, Reporters Send Letters Decrying.
marketwatch.com ^ | June 29, 2017

Posted on 06/29/2017 9:00:37 AM PDT by Helicondelta

Editors and reporters in the New York Times Co. newsroom can no longer keep quiet about their growing frustrations regarding the direction of the paper.

After a pair of letters sent to Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joseph Kahn by Times reporters and copy editors, the News Guild of New York said the New York Times editorial staff will leave the newsroom on Thursday as a demonstration of solidarity as management threatens jobs.

In the copy editors’ letter to Baquet and Kahn, they say they feel betrayed and disrespected in the newsroom, and ask that management reconsider staffing cuts that are expected as the paper plans to restructure.

“Cutting us down to 50 to 55 editors from more than 100, and expecting the same level of quality in the report, is dumbfoundingly unrealistic,” the letter reads. “You often speak about the importance of engaging readers, of valuing, investing and giving a voice to readers. Dean and Joe: We are your readers, and you have turned your backs on us.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: dbm; media; msm; newsroom; newyork; newyorktimes; nytlayoffs; nytprotest; nytwalkout; protest; times; walkout
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To: Steely Tom

Hahahah, the old grey whore she ain’t what she used to be.

“All the news that fits we print!”


101 posted on 06/29/2017 2:01:22 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Steely Tom; rktman
"Coming apart at the seams."

That same old crowd was like a cold dark cloud.

You see it your way, I see it mine.

102 posted on 06/29/2017 2:05:13 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Helicondelta

Editing? I thought they just relied on ‘spelchek’?


103 posted on 06/29/2017 2:07:31 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: dynachrome

You must mean spleenchek


104 posted on 06/29/2017 2:13:06 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Helicondelta

I’ve been waiting since 1995 for the MSM to be revealed for their partisanship! That was the year I stop subscribing to newspapers, weekly magazines and Network news as my source for information. They’ve been corrupt for probably more years than that, it’s just the year the light bulb snapped in my head. It was all because of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton and how the NYC to DC liberal news corridor stood united to protect the pervert known as Bill Clinton and his enabling wife!! Strictly for their power to control. I wrote NOW in 1995 that they were nothing but prostitutes for DNC money.


105 posted on 06/29/2017 2:46:04 PM PDT by Alissa
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To: Helicondelta

The term “Quality Control “ at the New York Times is akin to the term “Sanitary Ebola.”


106 posted on 06/29/2017 3:10:11 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cut costs by printing on very soft, thin paper, so that it will not only cost less, but hurt less when people use it to wipe their arses.


107 posted on 06/29/2017 3:21:30 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Helicondelta


108 posted on 06/29/2017 3:25:44 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: tet68
“All the news that fits we print!”

“All the news that fits our views.”

109 posted on 06/29/2017 3:38:22 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Helicondelta

How many editors do they need to decide where to place on hte page the stories that they get from the DNC or its affiliated organizations?


110 posted on 06/29/2017 3:47:22 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Hojczyk

“Only old people read a newspaper and there dying..”

Maybe that’s why we know the difference between there, their, and they’re, not to mention where commas go and how many periods are required at the end of a sentence.


111 posted on 06/29/2017 3:59:14 PM PDT by dsc
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To: Helicondelta

Turn in the Pulitzer prize you won for denying Stalin’s Ukrainian holocaust, and I promise I will subscribe to your paper.


112 posted on 06/29/2017 4:12:12 PM PDT by ChessExpert (NAFTA - Not A Free Trade Agreement)
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To: Billthedrill

NYT must be planning to gather news from the cloud.


113 posted on 06/29/2017 4:30:18 PM PDT by fision
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To: Helicondelta

Having lived through various forms of downsizing and increased workloads and still expected to produce quality products for over 25 years in manufacturing and industry, I must say I feel a slight touch of schadenfreude over the wailing and gnashung of teethics there at the slimes. Okay, a bit more than a “touch.” Hahahahahahahahaha.


114 posted on 06/29/2017 4:57:11 PM PDT by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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To: Helicondelta

Well, La-de-freakin-dah...


115 posted on 06/29/2017 5:35:23 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: Pravious

See to youze wouldnt want to be use!


116 posted on 06/29/2017 5:51:07 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Helicondelta

What is the sound of the world’s smallest violin......


117 posted on 06/29/2017 7:20:58 PM PDT by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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To: Steely Tom

I am editor. Here me rore!


118 posted on 06/29/2017 7:22:18 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: HP8753

How many boxes of crayons are being used?


119 posted on 06/29/2017 7:41:58 PM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: Helicondelta
“You often speak about the importance of engaging readers, of valuing, investing and giving a voice to readers."

Note that accurate, factual, investigative reporting to inform the public is not anywhere near their priority list.

120 posted on 06/29/2017 7:46:30 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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