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Peddling fake news does not, in fact, equate to a long-term successful business strategy, reporters for\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>are learning the hard way.<\/h2>\nThe Gray Lady, which many in the media class consider the pinnacle of the information business, is struggling so much financially that reporters are expected to be laid off from the publication, along with many editors,\u00a0the\u00a0New York Post<\/em>\u00a0reports.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cReporters at the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0could soon be \u2018vulnerable\u2019 to the ax,\u201d the\u00a0Post<\/em>\u2019s Keith Kelly wrote. \u201cIf the ongoing round of voluntary buyouts being offered to editing staff does not get enough takers, the Gray Lady could begin another round,\u00a0NYT<\/em>\u00a0Executive Editor Dean Baquet recently warned his top department editors.\u201d<\/p>\nKelly reported that as part of\u00a0an ongoing restructuring at the\u00a0Times<\/em><\/a>\u2014which has been happening since early 2017\u2014a whopping 109 copy editors have already been terminated while only 50 new jobs are likely to be created as the paper shifts its focus to digital. Kelly wrote:<\/p>\nWhen the downsizing was first revealed in late May, a memo from Baquet and Managing Editor Joe Kahn portrayed the cuts as a \u201cstreamlining\u201d of the editing process and indicated that some of the savings would be used to hire up to 100 more journalists. But in a mid-June meeting with department heads, Baquet admitted that journalists could be targeted in a new round of layoffs once the editing ranks are culled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Kelly quotes a memo from\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0metro editor Wendell Jamieson who said that the buyouts that are eliminating editor jobs at the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0are now also targeting reporter jobs there.<\/p>\n\u201cI just attended a department head meeting with Dean and the rest of the staff,\u201d Jamieson said in the June 15 memo to his staff. \u201cWhile much of the buyout discussions have focused on editors, the buyouts are also available to reporters. Dean made it clear that, should the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0find itself in a layoff situation, reporters will also be vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThis proves what we have suspected all along,\u201d NewsGuild president Grant Glickson said, according to the\u00a0Post<\/em>. \u201cThe\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0\u2018restructuring\u2019 of the newsroom is really about the bottom line and not about making the editing process more efficient, as they claim.\u201d<\/p>\nNewsGuild is the union that represents\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0editorial staff. Glickson also said that the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0had not until now indicated that forced layoffs would happen if it did not reach its targeted buyout goals. Now, the entire\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0newsroom is at risk of losing their jobs.<\/p>\n\u201cUp until now, the company had not indicated that layoffs would happen if targeted numbers weren\u2019t achieved,\u201d Glickson said.<\/p>\n
The layoff process, per Kelly\u2019s\u00a0New York Post<\/em>\u00a0report, is \u201cspeeding along\u201d over the labor union\u2019s \u201cobjections.\u201d Kelly wrote:<\/p>\nInterviews for copy editors to apply for the new positions are expected to conclude June 27. They are being conducted by 14 top editors \u2014 Jamieson, Monica Drake, Nancy Gauss, Steve Kenny, Marc Lacey, Patrick LaForge, Dean Murphy, Caroline Que, Carolyn Ryan, Karron Skog, Dick Stevenson, Archie Tse, Vivian Toy and Susan Wessling. The interview committee will meet June 28 and June 29 to decide who will be called back for a second interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0has been struggling financially for some time. A\u00a0piece last year in\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/em>magazine<\/a>\u00a0from Sarah Ellison was headlined: \u201cCan Anyone Save The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>From Itself?\u201d The piece details \u201cfinancial woes\u201d the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0faces, and \u201ctectonic tremors\u201d jolting the newsroom\u2014and questions whether Dean Baquet, the executive editor, can really do any good there.\u00a0Fortune Magazine,<\/em>\u00a0a few months earlier,\u00a0ran a piece<\/a>\u00a0calling the looming\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0budget slashing \u201cmanaging the decline of print.\u201d<\/p>\nIf the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0does dwindle in size\u2014and thereby influence\u2014ceding territory to newer upstart competitors, it could bring about\u00a0a seismic shift in the media industry as to which outlets have power and which do not.<\/p>\nWalking into the current administration, the legacy establishment media likw\u00a0the\u00a0Times<\/em>and its broadcast allies like CNN have wielded the most control over the media. But CNN finds itself under significant scrutiny, as it was\u00a0forced\u00a0as a result of a Breitbart News investigation<\/a>\u00a0just this week to retract an embarrassingly inaccurate hit piece on the president and his associates.<\/p>\nThis is just the latest example of CNN under fire in the new world of media\u2014while the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0keeps draining away in the long term. Part of the reason why the media target the president so much and so viciously is because he represents a threat to their continued business models\u2014thus their cushy, elitist lifestyles could come to an end if such a change\u00a0in the landscape occurred. President Trump\u00a0is a threat to them, in large part, because he calls them out directly.<\/p>\nThe President has repeatedly\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0the Gray Lady \u201cthe failing\u00a0New York Times.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\nIn an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in the Oval Office in February, President Trump lambasted the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0for its \u201cintent,\u201d which he said is \u201cevil.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIf you read the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, if you read the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, it\u2019s\u2014the intent is so evil and so bad,\u201d President Trump\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in the Oval Office interview. \u201cThe stories are wrong in many cases, but it\u2019s the overall intent. Look at that paper over the last two years. In fact, they had to write a letter of essentially apology to their subscribers because they got the election so wrong.\u201d<\/p>\nHe also said about the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0that \u201cthey write lies.\u201d<\/p>\nAs for CNN, President Trump\u00a0correctly identified<\/a>\u00a0them as a \u201cvery fake news\u201d network.<\/p>\n
\u201cReporters at the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0could soon be \u2018vulnerable\u2019 to the ax,\u201d the\u00a0Post<\/em>\u2019s Keith Kelly wrote. \u201cIf the ongoing round of voluntary buyouts being offered to editing staff does not get enough takers, the Gray Lady could begin another round,\u00a0NYT<\/em>\u00a0Executive Editor Dean Baquet recently warned his top department editors.\u201d<\/p>\n Kelly reported that as part of\u00a0an ongoing restructuring at the\u00a0Times<\/em><\/a>\u2014which has been happening since early 2017\u2014a whopping 109 copy editors have already been terminated while only 50 new jobs are likely to be created as the paper shifts its focus to digital. Kelly wrote:<\/p>\n When the downsizing was first revealed in late May, a memo from Baquet and Managing Editor Joe Kahn portrayed the cuts as a \u201cstreamlining\u201d of the editing process and indicated that some of the savings would be used to hire up to 100 more journalists. But in a mid-June meeting with department heads, Baquet admitted that journalists could be targeted in a new round of layoffs once the editing ranks are culled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Kelly quotes a memo from\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0metro editor Wendell Jamieson who said that the buyouts that are eliminating editor jobs at the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0are now also targeting reporter jobs there.<\/p>\n \u201cI just attended a department head meeting with Dean and the rest of the staff,\u201d Jamieson said in the June 15 memo to his staff. \u201cWhile much of the buyout discussions have focused on editors, the buyouts are also available to reporters. Dean made it clear that, should the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0find itself in a layoff situation, reporters will also be vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis proves what we have suspected all along,\u201d NewsGuild president Grant Glickson said, according to the\u00a0Post<\/em>. \u201cThe\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0\u2018restructuring\u2019 of the newsroom is really about the bottom line and not about making the editing process more efficient, as they claim.\u201d<\/p>\n NewsGuild is the union that represents\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0editorial staff. Glickson also said that the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0had not until now indicated that forced layoffs would happen if it did not reach its targeted buyout goals. Now, the entire\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0newsroom is at risk of losing their jobs.<\/p>\n \u201cUp until now, the company had not indicated that layoffs would happen if targeted numbers weren\u2019t achieved,\u201d Glickson said.<\/p>\n The layoff process, per Kelly\u2019s\u00a0New York Post<\/em>\u00a0report, is \u201cspeeding along\u201d over the labor union\u2019s \u201cobjections.\u201d Kelly wrote:<\/p>\n Interviews for copy editors to apply for the new positions are expected to conclude June 27. They are being conducted by 14 top editors \u2014 Jamieson, Monica Drake, Nancy Gauss, Steve Kenny, Marc Lacey, Patrick LaForge, Dean Murphy, Caroline Que, Carolyn Ryan, Karron Skog, Dick Stevenson, Archie Tse, Vivian Toy and Susan Wessling. The interview committee will meet June 28 and June 29 to decide who will be called back for a second interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0has been struggling financially for some time. A\u00a0piece last year in\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/em>magazine<\/a>\u00a0from Sarah Ellison was headlined: \u201cCan Anyone Save The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>From Itself?\u201d The piece details \u201cfinancial woes\u201d the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0faces, and \u201ctectonic tremors\u201d jolting the newsroom\u2014and questions whether Dean Baquet, the executive editor, can really do any good there.\u00a0Fortune Magazine,<\/em>\u00a0a few months earlier,\u00a0ran a piece<\/a>\u00a0calling the looming\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0budget slashing \u201cmanaging the decline of print.\u201d<\/p>\n If the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0does dwindle in size\u2014and thereby influence\u2014ceding territory to newer upstart competitors, it could bring about\u00a0a seismic shift in the media industry as to which outlets have power and which do not.<\/p>\n Walking into the current administration, the legacy establishment media likw\u00a0the\u00a0Times<\/em>and its broadcast allies like CNN have wielded the most control over the media. But CNN finds itself under significant scrutiny, as it was\u00a0forced\u00a0as a result of a Breitbart News investigation<\/a>\u00a0just this week to retract an embarrassingly inaccurate hit piece on the president and his associates.<\/p>\n This is just the latest example of CNN under fire in the new world of media\u2014while the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0keeps draining away in the long term. Part of the reason why the media target the president so much and so viciously is because he represents a threat to their continued business models\u2014thus their cushy, elitist lifestyles could come to an end if such a change\u00a0in the landscape occurred. President Trump\u00a0is a threat to them, in large part, because he calls them out directly.<\/p>\n The President has repeatedly\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0the Gray Lady \u201cthe failing\u00a0New York Times.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in the Oval Office in February, President Trump lambasted the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0for its \u201cintent,\u201d which he said is \u201cevil.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf you read the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, if you read the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, it\u2019s\u2014the intent is so evil and so bad,\u201d President Trump\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in the Oval Office interview. \u201cThe stories are wrong in many cases, but it\u2019s the overall intent. Look at that paper over the last two years. In fact, they had to write a letter of essentially apology to their subscribers because they got the election so wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n He also said about the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0that \u201cthey write lies.\u201d<\/p>\n As for CNN, President Trump\u00a0correctly identified<\/a>\u00a0them as a \u201cvery fake news\u201d network.<\/p>\n