Discussion for article #222751
I smell a coup.
1 Like
Orwellian. Did they also purge all pictures of her, and bylines or articles containing her name?
It isn’t surprising they have already removed her name from the masthead. They had to do that for legal reasons. The new guy goes on as soon as he assumes the job. What it tells me is they didn’t even take the time for a smooth transition.
1 Like
OMG. They must have a really really fast internet connection.
5 Likes
Occam: Yeah, it IS Owellian – or Stalinist – isn’t it?
At least TPM knows what a “masthead” is.
Many people confuse the “banner” with the “masthead”," but TPM’ers are journalistes so zey know zee difference.
1 Like
I wish her no ill, but I suspect she was a “problem,” maybe the source of much dissension.
WTF we’re not talking about hiring stonemasons to change the masthead. Why wouldn’t it be changed already.
3 Likes
This isn’t new, or news. All corporations handle HR stuff this way when it’s a hasty departure. This would have been in the top 3 on the checklist right after “inform employee” and “get exit documentation signed and delivered to legal”.
It’s cutthroat, but it’s not news.
3 Likes
There will be quite a few hangovers in the newsroom tomorrow after tonight’s celebrations.
The last time we saw a departure this fast was when Tasha Yar was bounced off Star Trek. What did she do pose nude for a skin mag?
And that masthead, err why is the publisher from 1896 still there? Why not all the publishers or just the current one? Or does the family really have to show that they behave like the Targareans?
1 Like
Maybe they found out she was responsible for David Brooks’s columns.
4 Likes
I don’t think so.
She was fired not executed.
4 Likes
While “powerful” people play musical chairs, the problems for the NYT and other print media are still festering. Adding another ring to the circus and then guillotining the clowns makes nothing better where it needs to be better. I’m old enough to remember when the NYT was everyone’s last word for real news. Now, its become a parody of itself and is, like most other print "institutions"on the short list for extinction. And that is what really scares the “powerful” people behind all this. The fact that dinosauric thinking and gobs of money won’t save them, or something that was once great. Who the meat heads put on the masthead won’t matter in the slightest in the long run.
1 Like
No, just the boys reacting to an “uppity woman” wanting equal pay.
3 Likes
I don’t know what she was getting paid, but all of them are obscenely compensated. At a time when it becomes difficult for ordinary people to justify the $52/month cost of that blue bag in the driveway.
1 Like
Even if as you say “they are obscenely compensated”, that is not an excuse for paying her less (if it is true).
Your comment is a deflection.
I would agree that anything over $.01 is more than you should pay for a newspaper that is produced under sexist conditions.
2 Likes