Comments on: Getting Awfully Crowded Here on the Grassy Knoll

By: William Bianchi

William Bianchi — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:24:53 +0000

Let’s get serious. The NYT shareholders aren’t unhappy about the way the paper handles the news. They do not care what they do or don’t print. They want to them make more money and pay more dividends. If they have their way, the NYT would look a lot like a print version of Fox News, a real money maker.

By: William Bianchi

William Bianchi — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:24:05 +0000

Let’s get serious. The NYT shareholders aren’t unhappy about the way the paper handles the news. They care what they do or don’t print. They want to them make more money and pay more dividends. If they have their way, the NYT would look a lot like a print version of Fox News, a real money maker.

By: RJJ

RJJ — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:21:01 +0000

The real theater of war is the Finance Sector.

By: RJJ

RJJ — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:18:02 +0000

Take care you guys don’t let Schadenfreude distract you from Bruce Sherman. WHO IS THIS GUY AND WHAT THE HELL IS HE UP TO.

I don’t know the answers but he worries me. I suspect he may be the Chainsaw Al of the Fourth Estate.

It would be tragic if Putz Sulzberger’s failings/shortcomings condemned the NYT to the tender mercies of a right wing wrecking crew. It would be ironic if liberals, drunk on spite, cheered as it came down.

By: portia.vz

portia.vz — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:24:33 +0000

Here’s more ideas that Pinch can ignore: Get rid of the firewall around the OP/ED writers. It’s killing their reach. If you wanna make money online, charge for a basic subscription to *all* of the news. And while you’re at it, make it real news by getting rid of the Adam Nagourney, Jody Wilgoren and Elizabeth Bumiller triumvirate. They give sycophancy a bad name. If there is no news at the WH, that’s what they should report. Not some puff pieces about how dreamy Dubya is and how cool the new communcations team is.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:27:15 +0000

Richmond (94) — flattered, but no, I’m only a businessperson, can see that the NYT has lost its way in terms of branding. Ditto WaPo, and I hope it’ll hurt the bottomline just as badly, but I’m afraid our chattering about WaPo might actually drive up readership. NYT’s putting the best and brightest behind a paid-access firewall was a big mistake; those op-ed should have been seen as loss-leaders that drove up readership, making online ad space more valuable. But NYT isn’t grokking the transition from traditional MSM outlet to internet-mediated model. WaPo is only just beginning to shape an increasingly internet-mediated model; their late adoption may have saved some of their bacon.

As for the economic news…[sigh] I get ill every time I hear talking heads saying, Garsh, we don’t get it, why aren’t Americans happier? The economy’s going great guns!! Ask any American that while they’re pumping gas these days; citizens get it firmly in their wallet every day.

By: Richmond

Richmond — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:54:27 +0000

Excellent comments by Rayne (41 and 43). Sounds like Rayne is an NYT insider to me, making the thoughts particularly salient. It would be great to bring the economic issues into fuller view.

By: monchie b monchum

monchie b monchum — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:16:36 +0000

Itâ€™s really remarkable how much Judy Miller resembles a young Harriet Sansom Harris (currently on â€œDesperate Housewivesâ€).

Interestingly, Harriet Sansom Harris (born January 8, 1955) is younger than Judy Miller (born January 2, 1948).

By: professor rat

professor rat — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:32:52 +0000

There’s a pointed message for the Dems here from the Corporate media implosion. Change or die.

Is the DLC an endangered species?

By: Springbored

Springbored — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:00:59 +0000

If a foreign government purchased the Times and nobody noticed…

What would it say about present-day management?