A grating voice atop the Gray Lady

Rusty Gate takes over NY Times as new editor:
"errrrrr, errrrrrr, errrrrrr, errrrrrrrr, errrrrr,..."

She can dig the Gray Lady's grave as fast as any dude can.

50 million readers?

Ahem .................. that's the result of bloggers linking to their on-line site.

Hits are not = readers .....

What'shername?/Slimes will be right onto this O'conomy love story.

Watch for it: it's B's fault.

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"U.S. economic forecast: heavy weather"

"Nothing tests the faith of the optimist these days like the U.S. economy.

In less than week, the prospects for a decisive improvement in the pace of hiring and a reduction in the U.S.’s woefully high unemployment rate have gone from good to grim.

Carl Riccadonna, an economist at Deutsche Bank in New York, on Thursday tallied the U.S. employment indicators released since Monday: Six of nine deteriorated in May from April, including the Institute for Supply Management’s factory employment index, which dropped to 58.2 from 62.7."

"Stock markets also slumped this week as the outlook for the U.S. economy soured. The pall over markets only darkened Thursday after Moody’s Investors Service said it would it would put the U.S. government’s AAA credit rating under review for a downgrade if politicians in Washington fail to make progress in talks to raise the country’s debt limit.

Some investors reacted to the Moody’s statement by selling U.S. government debt, pushing the yield on 10-year Treasury notes to 3.03 per cent, according to Bloomberg News. Bond yields move inversely to prices.

On Thursday, the yield on U.S. 10-year debt tumbled below three per cent as investors dumped stocks in the face of weaker-than-expected economic data.

The U.S. Labor Department releases its May survey of the jobs market on Friday morning. Just a few weeks ago, many economists were predicting a breakthrough. Deutsche Bank, for example, foresaw an increase in non-farm payrolls of 300,000 after the U.S. employers added 244,000 positions in April. A result of that kind would be a significant milestone because the United States has created 300,000 jobs or more only twice since the beginning of 2006 after achieving that feat three times in both 2004 and 2005.

Few on Wall Street are expecting such a dramatic turn of fortune now. Deutsche Bank has cut its estimate almost in half, to 160,000. In all, more than 30 analysts lowered their forecasts for May payrolls this week, putting the consensus at about 170,000. That’s fast enough job growth to keep ahead of increases in the working population from immigration and new graduates, but nowhere near the pace needed to significantly lower the unemployment rate from the current nine per cent."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/jobs/us-economic-forecast-heavy-weather/article2045142/

We should vote on which of these women is the most nauseating to listen to:

Lilliputian on Prozac meets Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.

If I worked at the NY Times, I’d by life insurance on the new boss, taking in the odds that she’ll pop a cap in her own butt one morning sometime between refreshing shower and uplifting cappuccino therapy.

She's about as inspiring as a wet dishrag and has an incredibly irritating habit of draaaaaaaawing out syllables. And she must be left-wing if she thinks the NYT has an unbiased outlook. Are you sure that's not Margaret Atwood with straightened hair?

Bueller?...Bueller?...Bueller?

What a loss to radio. The NYT will be out of business soon, but that's old news. (p.s. CNN Newista sucking up much?)

The cadence of her speech reminds me of a character played by Kristen Wiig on Saturday Night Live, who always tries to one-up the other person with insanely exaggerated anecdotes. It's not a flattering comparison, but it is funny.

Change? Still Jewish and still anti-Israel.

She can't be that bright, she doesn't employ the intellectual stammer at all!

She does appear to employ the even more irritating "drag the last syllable with a gravelly voice" technique, clearly indicating an IQ in the area of 10-15 points lower than the "intellectual stammerer".

GAAAAAAHH!

Y'know?

Been a Wall Street Journal subscriber for 40 years. The editorial page is conservative. The rest of the paper might as well be written by the NY Times which is why I only read the editorial pages.

Rober Bartley, former head of the editorial pages of the WSJ said, "We are the only paper that is read for its editorial content". He was right.

Alex Parkhurst is right, and I have a remarkable example to illustrate his claim that the news and editorial sides at the WSJ have different views.

During Bill Clinton's time in office, the editorial side hired one or more investigative reporters to dig into Clinton scandals, to do the investigating that their own news side didn't want to do.

Maggie Atwood has just been out-snored...

Her accent, including the long drawn-out syllables, is very common in the Southern US. She has pretty much the same accent as Dr. Helen Smith (Mrs. Instapundit).

I'm surprised that she doesn't believe that her management will change the paper. Umm, then why did they change management at all? Circulation is plummeting, the Times' reputation is in the toilet, and Times stock value is less than their asset value. As readership falls, so too must the amount advertisers will be willing to pay. A new chief doing exactly the same thing as the old chief will not produce different results.

Yay to her, for being the first woman in charge of the Times. If she doesn't pull her head out of an uncomfortable place, she could also be the last person in charge of the Times.