Betrayed NYT Staffers Rebel Against the 1%...in the New York Times' Executive Suite

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:44:00 +0000

Talk about the 1% Percent! Even as the Times is freezing pensions for foreign citizen employees in overseas bureaus, it granted a $15 million golden parachute to former chief executive Janet Robinson after she suddenly departed the NYT Co. at the end of 2011.

Clay Waters

Talk about the 1% Percent! Even as the New York Times is freezing pensions for foreign citizen employees in overseas bureaus, it granted a $15 million golden parachute to former chief executive Janet Robinson after she abruptly departed the New York Times Co. t the end of 2011.

An online open letter to Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. from the local Newspaper Guild dated December 23 has so far been signed 579 Times employees, including reporters and editors. Excerpts:

Dear Arthur:

Anti-Military Paranoid Piece 'Green Zone' Hailed by Top Times Movie Critic A.O. Scott

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:53:00 +0000

Michael Moore fan and Times movie critic A.O. Scott finds a left-wing fantasist version of the Iraq War featuring murderous U.S. soldiers and top brass an impressive sense of scruples. They have clearly studied journalistic accounts of the early days of the war, citing Rajiv Chandrasekaran's vivid Imperial Life in the Emerald City as a particular inspiration, and while the picture they paint of infighting among the Americans and growing factionalism among the Iraqis may not be literally accurate in every particular, it has the rough authority of novelistic truth.

Clay Waters

Movie critic A.O. Scott on Friday reviewed "Green Zone," a leftist fantasy about the Iraq War starring Matt Damon, in which the U.S. military are the bad guys. As shown by the headline, "A Search for That Casualty, Truth," Scott embraced the movie's hard-left politics and fantastical anti-military plot, showcased in the movie's "hero" played by Damon, disillusioned Army officer Roy Miller:

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Betrayed NYT Staffers Rebel Against the 1%...in the New York Times' Executive Suite

Anti-Military Paranoid Piece 'Green Zone' Hailed by Top Times Movie Critic A.O. Scott