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Severance Negotiations Conclusion
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Severance Negotiations Conclusion
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Thank you for providing an outlet for those of us who work at The Times to express our fear and sorrow at what is happening there. Waiting for the ax to fall is nearly unbearable. Even if, by some miracle, the layoffs are curtailed or postponed, the damage being done is incalculable. Good people all over the newsroom are preparing to jump ship. They cannot live with the uncertainty of not knowing whether they will have a job tomorrow or next week. Perhaps that's what Zell and his flunkies had planned all along -- get enough people to leave on their own and Tribune won't have to give them severance packages or face age-discrimination lawsuits.
and your blog reflects primarily the LATImes, and the print side.
Broadcast feels the same way.
check out the power of this fully armed and operational battle station: http://orlandosentinel2.com/flash/thenewos/
can anyone picture the l.a. times crammed into this hip, new look? even if you squint really hard?
It's not just the LATimesers who feel this way. It's Tribune wide.
Your ink stained site has come at just the right time. Zell and his band or merry pranksters have jumped the shark. We need to show him the door, although his financial mismanagement may do that for us, faster than we think. But there's no reason to think that the next boss--Geffen, Broad, Rite Aid, who the hell knows--is going to be any better. If the LAT's recent history teaches us anything, it's that there's always someone more inept salivating at the chance to run us into the ground.
Dude...you're quoting T.S. Eliot's Prufrock in protest?
I don't know if I'm impressed or sickened or...both.
Imprickened.
Anyway, keep eatin' that peach. I'm from Trib Broadcasting many miles away...but I'm always for a little dissention!
If you don't like him...give him hell!
-Anonymous Coward.
While I appreciate the sentiment from the Trib broadcast journalist, the peach reference is from an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem, not T.S. Eliot.
Another of her poems seems apropos at the moment:
My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night.
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light!
(Print journalists are smarter.)
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