Watching The Media 'Toilet Swirl'

The real problem is that buying public are not buying the left shifted ideological slant the majors newspapers are pushing. It is not the wordsmithing of the journalists, it is the leftist editorializing of the news that is creeping into almost every aspect of the news reporting that is repulsing the buying public. Starting with the nonsensical man-caused global warming, the relentless pushing of the Democrats socialism agenda and ending with the idiocy of muslim fascists terrorism denial -- And all the stops in between.

But notice, it isn't the editors or the publishers who pay the price for that bad policy.

After years of resisting the newsroom cuts that have hit most of the industry, The New York Times will bow to growing financial strain and eliminate about 100 newsroom jobs this year, the executive editor said Thursday.

The cuts will be achieved by “by not filling jobs that go vacant, by offering buyouts, and if necessary by layoffs,” said the executive editor, Bill Keller. The more people who accept buyouts, he said, “the smaller the prospect of layoffs, but we should brace ourselves for the likelihood that there will be some layoffs.”

The Times has 1,332 newsroom employees, the largest number in its history; no other American newspaper has more than about 900. There were scattered buyouts and job eliminations in The Times’ newsroom in recent years, but the overall number continued to rise, largely because of the growth of its Internet operations.

Not going to slow the swirl, rest is here.