New York Times Layoffs - Good Riddance To Bad Trash
The left-leaning big apple laid off another eighteen "newsroom" employees this week
. This is part of 100 "newsroom" jobs which the newspaper targeted for cuts in 2009. This is the second straight year that the ailing newspaper has made the decision to layoff 100 newsroom jobs. With a sharp thirty percent fall in ad revenue in the first three quarters of this year, accounting for around $231 million, these jobs cuts have become a necessary evil.
The headcount at the Times will be down to 1,150, still big enough to boast of a larger employee count than any other American newspaper. While the Times management had hoped that most employees would opt for a payout, eliminating the necessity for layoffs, only 74 out of the targetted 100 were willing to go for voluntary buyouts. The management had no choice but to go for layoffs for the remaining 24, to reach the envisioned target of 100.
These cuts are necessary because ad revenue is down because readership is down. And why is readership down? It's down because the big apple isn't printing news worth reading.
A study of 20 major media outlets for media bias by the University of California at Los Angeles, Media Bias is Real, found that the NYC has the second most liberal news pages in the nation, next only to The Wall Street Journal.
Daniel Okrent, former public editor of the NYC, recently revealed huge amounts of liberal bias at the ailing paper:
"When I was at the Times - my term there ended four years ago - everybody on the editorial board was a Democrat. I asked Gail Collins, who was then the editorial page editor, "Why don't you have a greater ideological variety and philosophical variety so you can have richer debate on the page?" And she said, "If I had a couple of conservatives on this page, they'd be unhappy all the time. They'd either have to write something that wasn't their view, because we decide our view consensually, or they'd never get to write. So, what's the point?"
A Rasmussen report in 2008 showed that only 24% of Americans had a favorable opinion of The NYC. While 31% were not sure about their opinion, the remaining 44% were downright unfavorable in their opinions about the newspaper. And a large number of those favorable votes came from liberal voters.
Accuracy In Media maintains an entire Boycott The NY project which documents the paper's continual efforts to skew the news. They allege that The Times shamelessly botches up news to support its leftist leanings and time and again oversteps basic journalistic ethics - delivering accurate and unbiased news.
The Media Research Center maintains a similar project, TimesWatch, which exists to document and report on the liberal political agenda that is being fervently followed at The N.Y.C.
Meanwhile, the left-wing media's only friend, the U.S. government, is developing plans to pour billions of taxpayer dollars into efforts to subsidize their corrupt cronies in the Fourth Estate. Your freedom as an American rests on the ability to prevent the government from doing just that.
This sickness does not afflict the N.Y.C alone. Many other mainstream media outlets are also failing because they have failed to do their job -- to report the news. According to Newscycle, over 15000 newspaper employees have lost their jobs in the year 2009, either through voluntary buyouts or layoffs. To that I have only this to say: Good riddance to bad trash.
by: Brian Jones
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