Posted on 08/22/2002 11:59:55 AM PDT by ArcLight
NEW YORK (AP) -- A longtime business editor at The New York Times fell to his death from the 11th floor of the newspaper's Times Square office building Thursday in what police called a possible suicide.
Allen Myerson, whose title was assistant business editor/weekends, fell from the West 43rd Street building around 9:45 a.m., police said. His body landed on the roof of a nearby garage.
The newspaper's spokeswoman, Catherine Mathis, confirmed his death. She said Myerson, 47, had worked at the Times since 1989.
Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. sent an internal memo to employees announcing Myerson's death and saying that police were investigating the circumstances. Police Sgt. Kevin Hayes said police were treating the death as a possible suicide.
"As with any family, we're called on to endure our share of tragedies," Mathis quoted Sulzberger as saying in the memo. "This is one of those times and our support for one another will help all of us get through it."
Myerson is survived by his wife, Carol Cropper Myerson, who works at BusinessWeek. They had no children.
Myerson wrote frequently on energy-related issues. In January, he edited "The New Rules of Personal Investing," a compilation of essays offering investing tips from top business writers at the newspaper.
Myerson joined the Times after working for the Lexington Herald-Leader and The Dallas Morning News.
Work-related suicides probably revolve more around employer-employee misconduct, making a statement, depression over corporate ethical misconduct, etc...
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Enron has been de-listed from stock exchanges for months now, I believe. Pretty tough to short a stock that can't be traded...
No, a work-related suicide at a Left-Wing organization (ala the NY Crimes) probably means that they either spiked an article of his that didn't toe the Leftist line, or some other major depressing anti-Left-Wing news hit him hard.
Wasn't there a prominent NY stockbroker who also took the plunge just a few weeks ago???
Take your medication.
Yes, a Goldman Sachs specialist in WorldCom -- or was it Global Crossing?
I still believe that you need to take your medication.
Of course, but that wouldn't explain a Work-related suicide.
People who off themselves while at work are doing so for entirely different reasons than the usual causes for people who take their own lives at home or while alone.
This reporter was a member of a hard-Left association, and this reporter wrote and covered Enron extensively.
Now factor those items in to a work-related suicide for your probable answer...
Notice that the Clintons were conveniently in Martha's Vineyard at the time of the hit.
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