Deep Impact

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The media business was shaken on Friday when it was reported […] that managing editor John Geddes, assistant managing editor Jim Roberts, dining editor Susan Edgerley, former Washington editor Rick Berke, and former Times Magazine editor Jerry Mazorati could all be casualties of the Times’ effort to cut costs.

26 Replies to “Deep Impact”

  1. Media class deadwood cast adrift on the seas of vanity. they wash ashore on some island of deception. The establishment cant let a good propagandist go to waste.

  2. But shouldn’t the solution to the NYT’s financial woes be to spend more “stimulus” money?? Surely they can’t see reducing spending as being the proper way to balance their budget!
    Liberal feedback on this evident hypocrisy would be entertaining.

  6. DrD said: “But shouldn’t the solution to the NYT’s financial woes be to spend more “stimulus” money?? Surely they can’t see reducing spending as being the proper way to balance their budget!”
    Perfectly said!
    Of course, it’s the difference between when they are looking after their own money as opposed to when, as leftist pinkos, they are “looking after” your money.

  7. And in other news, the NYT has announced they will close down their “Environmental Desk”
    Guess they figure the Great Eco Greenie Glowball Warming Fearmongering scam has run its course now that High Priest Al Gore has sold out to Humungous Oil and Big Jew Haters.
    Next up, they’ll report Obama really is a socialist, Tarantino couldn’t direct traffic on a One Way street and a gun owning society is a polite society with air less violence and social mayhem.
    The “Times” they are a changin’

  8. Philly’s 2 big papers are about to be slammed as well. As one who has endured their leftism for decades, a cannot say that I will shed a tear.
    “Interstate General Media, the parent company of the Daily News, the Inquirer and Philly.com, has threatened to “liquidate” the newspapers and their website if tentative contract agreements aren’t reached with the company’s 11 unions by next Friday”…….”The sale marked the fourth time in six years that the media company had changed hands. ”

  10. We will soon be reading about the NYT-Grey Lady turning into an Online Obama Prostitute in order to get some of Obamas Oral Stimulating funds.
    Democrats keep screaming over loose rape talk and they just screwed me and my take home paycheck for nearly 4% tax increase
    and didn’t even kiss me on the neck.

  11. Little did Jonathan Klein know when he made the remark “……a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas” that it would one day describe the fate of some major media brands. Probably one of the few things he got right over the years. Albeit inadvertently.

  12. They were bought by a Hedge Fund in April 2012 and it took them 8 months to figure up their loss.
    Hedge Funds don’t Stimulate,
    they Liquidate.
    Newspapers got Obama elected,
    soon they will be statistics in his Unemployment Program.

  13. When the consumer is no longer buying the product that you are selling you could try changing your product. Naw, that would never work. Forward.

  14. I did not read all of the article about the NYT. Media is complex these days and print media is going through rough times. But as others have noted print media is trying to flog their wares electronically and even that is not working for them.
    Now the NYT is a noted left, eco-weenie rag of ill repute amongst saner people on the right. So here is my question/theory. Are saner folks simply fed up with the financial, environmental, political pig slop fed to the masses and walking away in disgust? It is fair to say that most corporations that advertize lean to the right and many folks (more than the media wants to admit) are also righties. Even in Obamaland about 50% of folks are rightes.
    I cancelled our subscription to the local uber-left-leaning newspaper last year for a couple of reasons, but the straw was I was just sick and tire of the never-ending whining about what a bastard PMSH is and how “bad” the FF energy sector is in Canada and we are an ecological wasteland. It just got old and frustrating. And to make things worse, they took every opportunity to support idiotic ideas of ecos and ND types promoting all sorts of ill-conceived business and eco projects and ideas.
    If we assume that the left-right split is 50:50, every time they publish a “leftist” article they piss off half of their readers. And since they publish FAR (FAR) more lefty-eco articles than well-balanced articles then they are continually upsetting the practical right. So we walk away and their finances go to hell.
    MSM does not seem to be able to connect the dots. (They can’t make a connection between the crap they publish and declining sales. DOH!) They just can’t go on publishing glop that offends those that pay for advertisements and buy their leftist-eco rags.
    So, the left-leaning MSM is feeling the effects of its yellow journalism and those with money and common sense are fed up and walking away. No amount of upgrading their services to electronic delivery will save them. They revert to fairer journalism or die.
    They are unlikely to be around to publish their own obituaries. Good.
    CAS
    Coaldale, Alberta

  15. schaupmeyer…your “opinions” only hold water if you accept the centre line for left/rite divide as it stands today, it stands today well left of were it was 40-50 years ago. I see a good 40-50 % of Ritewingers as centrists or moderately left of centre

  16. Shouldn’t all these true believers be moving seamlessly to the new cabinet level
    Dept of Propaganda? Perhaps a temp cooling off period is required first?

  17. “MSM does not seem to be able to connect the dots.”
    In my opinion one of the problems and there are others, is that our modern journalists were taught by the forgotten warriors of a class struggle that no longer resonates in the general population. Here’s a quote from Miguel Faria author of Cuba in Revolution; Escape From a Lost Paradise
    “Yes, such is the state of ethics and politics of the ivory tower of academia-even after the collapse of the USSR- that modern-day academician-alchemists continue in their quest to transmute the creamy color of the elephant tusk into the bloodied red color of Marxism.”

  18. The only paper I subscribe to is the National Post. I also donate to the Knowledge Network in BC. Of course we all subscribe to the CBC via our taxes.

  19. Sounds like “The Unconscionable Liberal” is still there. That would have been an excellent place to start cutting.

  20. The problem for all newspapers is advertising revenue, not readership. Classified ads, thanks to sites like craigslist and kajiji, have dried up. In sleepy little Richmond Hill – and indeed, across the GTA – major advertisers like grocers, furniture companies, department stores, etc. have found it’s much more cost effective and targeted to use inexpensive local newspapers to distribute their flyers rather than expensive dailies. Lucrative career postings in the Globe’s ROB have migrated to Monster or LinkedIn.
    This is what’s really killing the newspaper industry. Falling circulation doesn’t help, as it drives down advertising rates, which makes it a double blow. Toronto, unique in North America as it has four daily papers, has a rabidly right of centre, a mildly right of centre, a mildly left of centre, and a rabidly left of centre paper for its citizens to choose from. All of them are struggling, so I don’t think it’s a question of editorial slant.
    ET, you can stop reading now. Marshall Macluhan wrote that any technology which is made obsolescent by a newer, faster technology (e.g. newspapers losing out to the ‘net, Tweets, tablets, etc.) is retrieved as an ‘art form’. Think of horses – once a mainstay of farm work and transportation, they are now more important as art, whether it be horse racing, dressage, jumping, or just plain pleasure riding. When newspapers realize this is their future, and begin to move away from block after block of text into more engaging and interesting forms of information display, they may once again begin to prosper, but on a much smaller scale.
    PS Kate, I understand why you would want a captcha system; I just wish the one you chose to implement, you know, worked.

  23. NME666, I agree there has been a huge swing left. Today’s Alberta PCs are more left that Liberals 30 years ago.
    As KevinB noted, advertizing revenues are way down.
    I still think there is some truth to my theory that the leftist media has upset far too many rightists who buy ads and once read newspapers. It just gets old reading the same biased eco, political and economic nonsense day after day, when most of what they write of rubbish. And I don’t mean rubbish just because I do not agree with it (well that too ☺), I mean factually incorrect. Most articles dealing with the environment either cherry pick information; simply write “errors of fact” or write out of context.
    And don’t get me started on the “journalists” like Evan Solomon who have their own agenda and are utterly incapable of reporting evenly. There are never “two sides” to a story when it comes of most “journalists.” Evan Solomon comes to an interview with HIS biases and attempts to stuff them down the throat of an interviewee. I pay that ba$tard’s wages. Peter is no different.
    End of CBC and MSM rant. ☺ ☺ Stay warm.
    CAS

  25. The Post is a pale conservative shadow of what it was under Conrad Black, regrettably. The Toronto Sun is the GTA’s most right-leaning paper, and continually dissed by the self-proclaimed leftard elite, so I read it with glee. Every time I’m asked via the telephone if I want to subscribe to the Star, I say, politely, that I have no birds in my pad, and hence, no need for birdcage liner.
    Re – the CBC: yes, the statists can force you to pay for it. They can’t force you to watch it.
    mhb23re

  26. I get the captcha to work, but it usually takes 3 or 4 tries. Clearly, I know how to type, and I don’t have this problem on other sites. It’s just a minor annoyance, but it is an annoyance.

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