I pretty much agree with you, but there’s no need to make up stupid stuff: the diehard “1%” who would miss the NYT would NOT subscribe to the New York Post out of nostalgia. That’s like saying if you run out of Laphroaig, Old Crow Whiskey will do. Pure nonsense.

I pretty much agree with you, but there’s no need to make up stupid stuff: the diehard “1%” who would miss the NYT would NOT subscribe to the New York Post out of nostalgia. That’s like saying if you run out of Laphroaig, Old Crow Whiskey will do. Pure nonsense.

I pretty much agree with you, but there’s no need to make up stupid stuff: the diehard “1%” who would miss the NYT would NOT subscribe to the New York Post out of nostalgia. That’s like saying if you run out of Laphroaig, Old Crow Whiskey will do. Pure nonsense.

[...] $1.3 Billion in debt - $34 million in cash - bailout rumors | Tribble Ad Agency : The Advertising Ag… At a time when New York Times managers are forcing all employees to take a five percent pay cut, and demanding even larger sacrifices from the NYT-owned Boston Globe, top executives of the beleaguered newspaper received substantial bonus and fringe benefit payments over and above their salaries, according to a proxy statement released on March 11. These bonuses and benefits to top Times company executives have provoked growing resentment among Times staffers, and frank anger from Globe reporters who have been warned by Times executives that their paper will be folded if they do not come up with $20 million in pay cuts and layoffs. On Tuesday, the Times disclosed a $74 million first quarter loss, 221 times larger than the $335,000 loss in the first quarter of 2008. According to the New York Times proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, corporate president and CEO Janet L. Robinson received a total compensation package valued at $5.58 million in 2008, up well over a million from the $4.14 million she received in 2007, and the $4.4 million she received in 2006. Robinson’s $1 million base salary has remained the same for three years. In 2008, Robinson’s total compensation included, in addition to her base salary: $1.6 million in stock awards, $1.5 million in options, a $35,000 bonus, $562,500 from the non-equity incentive plan, $898,171 from the "Change in Pension Value and Non-qualified Deferred Compensation Earnings," and "other compensation" of $46,368. A number of NYT staffers contacted said that there was considerably more resentment voiced on the newsroom floor, and in newspaper guild meetings, about Robinson’s pay than about compensation awarded to Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the NYT board chairman and publisher. Staffers noted that even though Sulzberger received bonuses and other compensation more than doubling to $2.4 million his base salary of $1,087,000, his total compensation package has declined substantially over the past three years from $3.4 million in 2007 and $4.4 million in 2006. In addition to his 2008 base salary, Sulzberger’s total compensation included a bonus of $38,045, stock awards of $54,443, option awards of $29,832, a non-equity compensation plan distribution of $597,850, a change in pension plan valuation and non-qualified deferred compensation worth $559,826, and $48,878 in "other compensation," according to the proxy. One NY Times reporter described the empathy for Sulzberger and the antipathy toward Robinson as follows: "Arthur [and his family] own the paper, but no one expects him to be a businessman. Janet was hired to be the CEO, she should know [how to run the business]." __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. [...]

Your line about subscribing to the NY Post is just wicked. LOL.

Your line about subscribing to the NY Post is just wicked. LOL.