Discussion for article #222917
I feel the same way: Too much inside baseball of interest only to those in the media.
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Couldn’t agree with Glass more. In fact, I’d like to know what her redundancy package was–then maybe people would stop feeling sorry for her or whatever it is we’re “supposed” to feel.
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Are they now taking a poll of people who don’t care about this issue? Count me in.
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I’m with Ira. This is inside, inside baseball.
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Good for Ira. I’m sick to death of the story.
Jill seems to have gotten off “whole” in a legal, equity and economic, sense, and that’s not bad.
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I have been reading the NY Times for appx. 55 years or when I was a teenager. I stopped thinking about the Editors decades ago. I am losing interest, rapidly, in Maureen Dowd, David Brooks and Friedman. What i have always loved about the Times is their reporters. The Heart and Soul of any daily is their reporters and the Times has plenty of them.
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Count me in too. I read the Times daily and I’d never heard of Jill Abramson till this story became unavoidable. I won’t pay attention to who the next editor is either, or who runs CBS, or what the hell the White House correspondents dinner is, and on and on. I suppose it’s understandable that journalists find these stories interesting, but it’s great to learn that there are media insiders (e.g., Ira Glass) who are as uninterested as most of us are in the self-made cult of media personality. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s unimportant who edits the Times, just that of the million thing to know, it ranks low.
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She’s also being very quiet (probably has to, or so I’m told) while the big guy gets to publicly criticize her.
Doesn’t seem fair. Not that life is for certain groups of people.
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I’m not sure why this is a story, let alone why it is the lede story on TPM. Unless radio host Ira Glass is somehow required to know who all the players in the newspaper business are, this really smacks of just trying to make him look silly.
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The firing story lives on because Abramson was a woman in what had been a traditional man’s job and she was hiring women and minorities, something her male predecessors didn’t do. Do we only care about pay disparity and gender discrimination when it’s a blue collar woman? So Ira Glass doesn’t care, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t.
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I can relate to your comments. Been reading NYT & LaTimes for decades. Began when I was a student & on the high school newspaper & college student decades ago. .
Why is this a story? As a general proposition, I don’t care who edits the NYTimes, but I do care (I think) about why Abramson was ousted. But whether I did or didn’t care about that, I really don’t care whether Ira Glass is up on the story or what he thinks about it.
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I like TPM. A lot. But this story is really weak. Who cares what Ira Glass thinks about the New York Times editor?
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I was fucked over so badly by not one, but two employers I have only the most casual sympathy for her
As JFK said, life’s not fair.
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I’m with Glass on this one. They could get Dumbo and Timothy mouse to edit the paper. It won’t save them, nor does it matter.
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Were you dragged across the internet afterwards?
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Not only could I care less who the edits the NY Times, but I could care less that Ira Glass cares less.
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My reaction: “Who the heck is Ira Glass and why should I care?”
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I have no idea why what Ira thinks should matter, except that he is finally saying what maybe a lot of people think. She was making ten times what the average person was for a couple of years. She was fired abruptly which for a media organization was pretty stupid. People get fired all the time for justifiable and also stupid reasons.
Meanwhile, after taking a month or two without comments, TPM has instituted a dysfunctional system. Why does what I am typing show up as one endless line which makes it extremely difficult to edit, and ther
is on edit feature after the comment is posted.