Terrific libspeak on display.
Because the buyout was oversubscribed, we were able to avoid layoffs.
was oversubscribed?!?! Typical 3rd person passive CYA bilge favored by bureaucrats. BTW this
Glob thread needs proper decoration:
The Globe apparently feels that American soldiers in the Afghanistan and Iraq theaters wear standard issue tennis shoes, blue do-rags, and winter camouflage sans insignia. A couple of weeks
after the blogosphere exposes porn interspersed with Abu Ghraib pictures as a hoax
Boston Globe ignoramuses publish this story about two morons still taking the hoax seriously:
(Pandering porn warning - click on image to enlarge.)
Update this morning.
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/03/22/globe_cuts_24_jobs_in_newsroom_via_buyouts/?page=full
Globe cuts 24 jobs in newsroom via buyouts
By Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | March 22, 2007
The Boston Globe reduced its newsroom staff by 24 people, or 6 percent, through a buyout that included several of its most prominent and longtime journalists, including two Pulitzer Prize winners, columnist Eileen McNamara and investigative reporter Stephen Kurkjian.
The buyout program was an effort to cut costs but avoid layoffs in the face of some of the harshest conditions for newspapers and other mass media in years. Staffers seeking a buyout had to apply for it. Most were notified yesterday that their applications were accepted, and their departures will occur over the next few months.
"It is always difficult to say goodbye to co-workers and friends," Globe editor Martin Baron wrote in a memo to the staff yesterday. "Wonderful people who have dedicated themselves so fully to the success of the Globe will no longer be working with us side by side. I know that all of us wish them well."
Other writers familiar to Globe readers who are leaving include restaurant critic Alison Arnett, religion reporter and former Middle East bureau chief Charles A. Radin, Bogota bureau chief Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, and outdoors writer Tony Chamberlain.
"It's very bittersweet," said Chamberlain, 64, whose nearly three decades of covering sailing, skiing, and other sports included Olympic games and the America's Cup. "This is not the typical job that you just want to escape from."
Two staffers from the editorial page also took buyouts, including longtime deputy editorial page editor and columnist Robert L. Turner.
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