Deep Impact

Where's Bruce Willis when you need him? :-)

No worries, they have been shilling for Barry for so long, they have their collective heads stuck so far up his butt they can read his teleprompter, they figure he'll just rain taxpayer's money on them like he's been doing on Solyndra.

Problem solved.

"Shovel ready" :^)

Where do I even begin...?

"What am I gonna do? Am I gonna eat cat food? Am I gonna move in with my kids? Am I gonna commit suicide?"

And he says this because he's worried that the New York Times is going through the motions of reforming its pension plan? That should be the least of his worries.

Yes, the management promised to care for him in his old age. The management of the Times are shameless liars. Lying without shame is what the Times is for.

Someone needs to tell him he's not getting a pension. At all. Very few people are. Our NYT journalist's pension will disappear along with the paper in maybe ten years. The paper's creditors will get the pittance in his 401(k). Most of everybody else's pension will be hyperinflated away by the Fed.

So yes, when he becomes too old or ill to work, his children will be his only realistic option for keeping body and soul together, but it's hardly guaranteed. His "liberated" daughters might take him in. They may need someone to watch their mongrel pups (sire unknown) while they're at work cleaning the toilets or pipes of visiting Chinese, Indian and Russian businessmen in New York's hotels.

His sons---well, it's worth a try, assuming they have disposable incomes themselves when Uncle Sam is quite done selling the family farm to the banks. As sensitive modern men, however, they will delegate the final decision to his daughters-in-law, as they do all important ones. The daughters-in-law's own fathers will be as likely as not to need financial support themselves. No prizes for guessing who'll have first dibs on the sons' money.

That leaves only one option---taking the power cord for his laptop he uses to write the bilge that passes for NYT copy, and put it to much better use. If he cared for a moment how badly he and his rag had betrayed their nation, he'd have long since claimed the same well-merited prize as Judas Iscariot.

Game over. You lose. Give Judas our regards.

The whiney post is losing money... I'll lose sleep over that for sure.

The sooner it falls, the better.

Hopefully the New York Times follows soon.

I'm surprised it's all taking as long as it is.

I thought mass destruction was enroute about 5 years ago. It's pretty slow motion.
Lay-offs here, reduced content there, a budget cut followed by more reduced content......

I suspect another five years or so is necessary before the real tipping point is reached.

One can only hope that the Winnipeg Free Press is suffering the same fate. With columnists like Frances Russell and Gordon Sinclair on staff, it would be fitting to see that paper go down in flames.

It's not only the left-wing columnists that raise my ire, but also the lack of any truly conservative voices on the editorial pages. Aside from that, the topics covered on those same pages usually tend towards the mundane and parochial. It's like the editors believe that the public can't be trusted to have an opinion on any subject more complex than potholes.

Other than picking up the Saturday edition, and only that for the crosswords, I haven't subscribed in over twenty years. And I don't miss it a bit. For that matter, I haven't watched a Mainstream Media newscast in about ten years either.

"...some thoughts on the future of journalism..."

Here's a thought.

Someone, somewhere, will start to actually inform their readers regarding the news of the day.

They will do background research on issues that isn't bent toward making one party look good at the expense of another.

They will report on events truthfully and try to convey the relative importance of what occurred.

If they do an interview with a person, they will FACT CHECK the guy and say if he's lying or not.

That outfit will make -millions-.

The more liberal they become the less rational or factual. People see the glaring gulf between whats reported & reality now. To many other outlets that cross check information now.

If not already, in another 4 years people will think Sarah Palin is weird if she reads a newspaper.