NYT Fires Half of Its Editorial Staff

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The New York Times is reshuffling its operations at the opinion section -- reducing the frequency of its editorials while shrinking its roster of editorial board writers, according to a report.

The Gray Lady has reportedly offered several of its editorial board members new jobs within the opinion section or buyout packages if they choose to leave the company.

Mara Gay (who is frequently seen on left-leaning news channel MSNBC), Brent Staples, Jesse Wegman and Farah Stockman are editorial board members who were given the option of accepting a buyout, the news site Semafor reported on Monday.

Mara Gay is the innumerate idiot who did some quick arithmetic and asserted that if Michael Bloomberg took the $500 million he spent on his 2020 bid for president and paid it out to American citizens, he could give them each over one million dollars. Because you know there are fewer than 500 citizens in America.

An MSNBC news anchor and pundit are being ridiculed after suggesting that Michael Bloomberg could have given every American a million dollars with the amount of money spent on his campaign.

While discussing Bloomberg's huge investment in advertising campaigns throughout his 2020 Democratic-run, anchor Brian Williams discussed a tweet making the claim with a glaringly obvious mathematical calculation.

He suggested that because Bloomberg had spent $500 million on his campaign and there were 327 million people in America, he could have given each member of the population a million pounds with money to spare.

Williams showed a screen-grab of the tweet during the broadcast that read: "Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The US population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over. I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on ads and STILL LOST."

Speaking in disbelief, Williams said: "When I read it tonight on social media it kind of all became clear."

Even more embarrasingly, in the middle of reading out, the tweet remarked: "Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math."

NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay then agreed: "It's an incredible way of putting it. It's true. It's disturbing. It does suggest what we're talking about here which is there's too much money in politics."

A Twitter with the username Andrew Kaczynski posted a clip of the mistake on Twitter with the caption "how did this end up on tv?"

Brent Staples is the useless black editorial writer that no one reads, not the neocon writer Brett Stephens, who people only read when he admits he's been wrong about everything in his adult life as an "intellectual."

The New York Times branded these do-nothing DEIs as low quality.

"Publishing fewer, higher-quality editorials, the thesis goes, will lead to more audience attention," according to the Semafor report.

The Times is also mulling possible changes to its endorsement policy, including backing candidates in races across the country, according to Semafor.

Oh great, because voters in Montana don't hear enough about liberal New York Times' "journalists'" opinions on every fkcuing thing.

A Times spokesperson confirmed the accuracy of Semafor's reporting and declined further comment.

Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury, deputy editor Patrick Healy, and publisher AG Sulzberger are considering restructuring the opinion department by having more editors participate in the editorial board while reducing the number of staff dedicated exclusively to writing editorials, according to Semafor.

Earlier this year, longtime op-ed columnist Paul Krugman went public with his criticisms of Kingsbury and Healy -- accusing the two executives of effectively censoring his opinion pieces before he left the newspaper late last year.

Krugman told Columbia Journalism Review that the two editorial bosses were "exerting a heavy hand on what went out under my name" and that as a result, he "approached Mondays and Thursdays (when his columns appeared) with dread."

On the days his column appeared in the Times' pages, he "often spent the afternoon in rage" after publication, according to CJR.

Oh have an infarction, asshole.

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The final straw for Krugman was when he was told by Kingsbury that his output would be reduced from two columns per week to just one.

And he had previously been reduced from three columns per week to two.

It's almost as if everyone knows Paul Krugman is a crackpot asshole who spews nothing but thoughtless reflexive leftwing talking points.

Mark Hemingway
@Heminator

Since Trump got elected, Ruth Marcus, Jim Acosta, Norah O'Donnell, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Wallace, Joy Reid, Neil Cavuto, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Lester Holt all resigned or were fired.

They shut down 538 and now they're getting rid of the entire NYT editorial board. Amazing.

posted by Ace at 03:23 PM

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