Well, well, so the New York Times is cutting jobs again.  All I can say is that it couldn’t have happened to a nicer paper.  Reports Jeff Bercovici:

"New York Times executive editor Bill Keller announced, at one
of the paper’s regular staff talk-backs, plans for another wave of job
cuts, including, according to three sources, the elimination of 100
newsroom positions. That’s about 7 percent of the newsroom. Keller will
hold three separate meetings today to break the news to the staff."

This isn’t the first time the Gay Lady has cut jobs, and, if the publisher, Pinch Sulzberger, doesn’t change his ways, it won’t be the last.   The Times has been a leftist propaganda mill for ages, working against the great and good at every turn. 

Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that to some degree this reflects problems in the print media in general.  The Internet has been cutting into the print press’ readership for about a decade now, as many people have started to get their news from the Web.  For sure, it certainly is reasonable to assume that if the Web didn’t exist, most of those folks would be buying newspapers. 

So I have mixed feelings about the newspapers’ woes.  On the one hand, it’s wonderful to see these leftist organs receive their comeuppance; on the other, I don’t want to see a receding tide that grounds all boats.  There are good publications out there and they deserve to prosper. 

Moreover, we’ve had a vibrant print media almost since the invention of the printing press in 1436, and it would be a sad day if it fell by the wayside.  So I would encourage everyone to support the traditionalist print media.

As for the Times, when I can read its epitaph, it’ll be an occasion worthy of champagne. 

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