Bullwinkle: You just leave it to my pal Rock. He’s the brains of the outfit.
General: And what does that make you?
Bullwinkle: What else? The executive.
As the New York Times revenue base continues to collapse and it prepares for a much smaller future, it is only natural that members of the top management at America’s holy writ of contemporary liberalism would be made to walk the plank. So it was that Executive Editor Jill Abramson was fired by Publish Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger, Jr. this week. However, Abramson has not gone quietly:
Go here to read the rest by Howard Kurtz. The New York Times accused of sexism, does it get any better than that! Well, yes it does, for those of us who like our schadenfreude served up in large portions. The upper reaches of the management of the paper has apparently been more than a bit daft for quite some time:
Ed Driscoll at PJ Media gives us this bizarre incident:
But the clincher was the Moose. You remember the moose, don’t you?
Go here to read the rest. Mr. Driscoll directs us to a piece by James Lileks of the Minneapolis Star Tribune in which he speculates about Eisenhower using the moose management technique:
Eisenhower: What did you call you moose? You’re supposed to give it a name!
Patton: As soon I saw it was under the treads, I named it Monty.
Go here to read the rest. For a business enterprise to be prosperous it always helps if the people at the top are not complete lunatics.
Mr. McClarey,
You have put a smile on my face that will not go away for the rest of the month.
“As soon as I saw it was under the treads, I named it Monty.” ROFLOL!
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If Patton had any foresight into the future he would’ve named it ‘DeGaulle’.
It was a dozen years ago that Camille Paglia offered that people who thought of the Times as the “paper of record” hadn’t read it in 20 years. It’s editorial page was always wretched (recall Anthony Lewis and Anna Quindlen), embarrassing next to the Washington Post‘s. After A.M. Rosenthal’s retirement, it’s grown increasingly peculiar and unprofessional (like much of the rest of the media). This company had to mortgage its headquarters in 2009 to meet current obligations, is in hock to a Mexican telecoms billionaire, sold a major subsidiary last year for a price which amounted to about 5% (in real terms) for what they paid for it, and nestles in an in an industry where the real value of ad revenue is back to what it was in 1950, when gross domestic product was one-sixth what it is today. That she’s cheesed her 500k per annum is less than her predecessor was paid gives you an idea of her awareness of her surroundings and other people’s interests.
Art Deco, you’ve summarized it perfectly.
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A friend of mine has a name for those hacks in the media industry who
pretend to still care about journalistic integrity. He calls them “presstitutes”.
Sadly, they are legion.
He calls them “presstitutes”. Sadly, they are legion.
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I love it, and true literally. Baghdad Jay, the White House press secretary, was hired off the staff of Time. I recently read that there are some two-dozen pr apparatchicks in the administration who are married to Washington-beat reporters or news producers. Some of the coverage deficits you see with this administration (re the IRS mess and Benghazi most spectacularly) can be laid at the door of the press being quite literally in bed with administration flacks (and often seeking career changes).
“Presstitutes” well describes the overwhelming majority of today’s lame stream news media “journalists.” Thanks for the term.
Frankly, I do not care what a liberal press company does to a liberal presstitute. They each so richly merit the heartache that they give to each other.
Liberal. Progressive. Democrat. Those three words tell me all I need to know about the NY Times and the people who support and run the NY Times. Schadenfreude – delectatio morosa. Yes, I am guilty. Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.