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MEDIA WHIRLWIND COMES FOR THE NY TIMES: Editorial Board Members Told to Take New Positions or Take a Buyout
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Mar. 12, 2025 | Mike LaChance

Posted on 03/12/2025 8:51:36 PM PDT by bitt

Times are tough all over for the liberal media. CNN and MSNBC have lost a painful amount of their already small audiences, the Washington Post is retooling their approach because people stopped reading, and now the same whirlwind has reached the New York Times.

The liberal paper is telling members of their editorial board to take new positions at the paper, or take a buyout, and a walk, presumably.

Over the last eight years, vast swaths of the American media torpedoed whatever credibility they had left in their pursuit of Trump. They pushed countless lies and conspiracy theories and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

The New York Post reports:

NY Times tells editorial board writers: Accept new position or take buyout

The New York Times is reshuffling its operations at the opinion section — reducing the frequency of its editorials while shrinking its roster of editorial board writers, according to a report.

The Gray Lady has reportedly offered several of its editorial board members new jobs within the opinion section or buyout packages if they choose to leave the company.

Mara Gay (who is frequently seen on left-leaning news channel MSNBC), Brent Staples, Jesse Wegman and Farah Stockman are editorial board members who were given the option of accepting a buyout, the news site Semafor reported on Monday.

“Publishing fewer, higher-quality editorials, the thesis goes, will lead to more audience attention,” according to the Semafor report.

The Times is also mulling possible changes to its endorsement policy, including backing candidates in races across the country, according to Semafor.

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1 posted on 03/12/2025 8:51:36 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 03/12/2025 8:52:01 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Maybe they could sell their Russia Collusion Pulitzer for a few bucks!


3 posted on 03/12/2025 8:52:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats do not object to government corruption, as long as they get a cut of the loot.)
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To: bitt

They have their mighty messiah god, odongo, to thank for it.
In 2012 or 2015, when he repealed that law holding them somwhat accountable to the truth, they were allowed to lie without consequence. They became a lying mouthpiece for the left....they became PRAVDA.
It took awhile, but folks finally figured out what they really were and treated em accordingly with distrust and disrespect.


4 posted on 03/12/2025 9:05:19 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: bitt

A couple of years ago O’Keefe sued the Times.

Whatever happened to that?


5 posted on 03/12/2025 9:14:17 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: bitt
They’re not responding to a shrinking customer base.

They’re responding to Trump’s cutting off their USAID spigot.

6 posted on 03/12/2025 9:31:21 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: bitt

No more USAID money. Therefore, they have to rely on market forces.


7 posted on 03/12/2025 9:48:55 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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Awww gee... lol


8 posted on 03/12/2025 10:15:32 PM PDT by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
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To: bitt

God I wish Rush were here to see all this.


9 posted on 03/12/2025 10:21:24 PM PDT by LanaTurnerOverdrive (Unvaxxed. Not your guinea pig. )
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To: bitt

“Publishing fewer, higher-quality editorials, the thesis goes, will lead to more audience attention…”

The fewer part is easy. But the NYT is incapable of producing higher quality.

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10 posted on 03/12/2025 10:24:09 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Good News! The NYT has a long history of fake news. Walter Duranty, the New York Times’ man in Moscow, outright lied about the events, deliberately misleading his readers hiding Stalin's murder of Soviet people. And yet, in 1932, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of lies. That is the true history of the NYT. It is time that the “old grey lady” is buried.
11 posted on 03/12/2025 10:42:08 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That could actually be worth quite a bit more than a few bucks, as Pres. Trump’s case against the Pulitzer board was allowed to continue today.


12 posted on 03/12/2025 11:26:40 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: bitt

“Hate Trump? You’re hired!”


13 posted on 03/12/2025 11:33:56 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: VanShuyten

I know. That is why I said it.


14 posted on 03/13/2025 12:13:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats do not object to government corruption, as long as they get a cut of the loot.)
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“Publishing fewer, higher-quality editorials, the thesis goes, will lead to more audience attention,”

FEWER editorials results in MORE attention? Maybe that makes sense on some level, but I’m missing it.


15 posted on 03/13/2025 12:21:37 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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Too late.


16 posted on 03/13/2025 2:11:36 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: bitt

The Grey Dinosaur


17 posted on 03/13/2025 2:21:45 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: bitt

The Old Gray Lady vs The Grim Reaper


18 posted on 03/13/2025 2:45:20 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Beulah is the name Hillary! gave to her roly-poly belly blubber. TMI. )
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reducing the frequency of its editorials

But, since every "news article" has editorial content, that might prove to be problematic.

19 posted on 03/13/2025 2:46:50 AM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: LanaTurnerOverdrive

“God I wish Rush were here to see all this.”

I believe he is. ~ Ditto’s


20 posted on 03/13/2025 2:55:59 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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