<![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times? - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times? - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> That's okay, my mom's not all that nice, either.

winniemc

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> @Hockeymom:
Actually? That's really cute! I'm jealous.

fileunder

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> Nice ladies don't far at The New York Times. Certainly not to Assistant Managing Editor.

upyours2

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> She looks like a nice lady, like someone my mom should be friends with.

winniemc

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> It was like that when the newfangled telephone people moved into the telegraph office, too. And since the old people couldn't understand how the new wired horn worked, they did a lot of shouting then, too.

nyphotog

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> @fileunder:
This is much like a conversation which may or may not take place in our home once a week.

10 Year Old, "Hey, you know what would really help the news ratings? Kids doing sports. You should have kids do the sports."

7 Year Old to 10 year old, "Ya, but I should be the kid because I'm cuter and YOU STINK."

Parent "That's a terrific idea Jimmy and Susie, we'll get right on it."

The only difference between this situation and the NYTimes is that the adult doesn't actually act on what the kids are saying. Instead, the adult wisely (and hypothetically) throws in a hard-hitting investigative piece on Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer to spike the ratings.

See, NYTimes....THAT'S how you do journalism.


Hockeymom

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> Shame the tipster's comments about Edgerley's "absolute lie" about there never being separate reporters and editors for the Web site being dismissed as "Not really too scandalous." I'm sure those who worked their balls off (and the other things) for day after day after day after day loved hearing their Dishonorable Career Development Officer screaming, "THEY NEVER EXISTED!"

upyours2

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> @lefty: Also, I will agree it was worthy of being front of Styles, perhaps. But not, ever, p1.

cassandra

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> @lefty: Yeah, I read it, thanks. It was still the usual stupid Times paternalism -- like, if you didn't figure out that this is a good time to talk to your kids, stupid American parents, let us, the New York Times, remind you how to be a good parent. Stupid, condescending, and not at all timely.

cassandra

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> Uh-oh, I smell an "NYT Kidz!" pullout section being considered.

fileunder

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> @lefty:

Most people don't rely on the Times for teachable moments. That's what the National Inquirer is for.

miss_msry

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> @Dolomite: it is also the exact perfect definition of a newspaper trend story:

-- something an editor heard their kid and her friend talking about

-- something an editor and their partner/spouse/dog/cat had an argument about

... etc.

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> @lawyergay: that is so beautiful. it brought a delicate tear to my eye, which balanced gracefully on my lashes, refracting the afternoon sun into a thousand tiny pieces, each as precious as a jewel

kind of

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> The P1 story wasn't the news about the pregnancy. It was a thumb-sucker a day or too after it broke about it being a "teachable moment." It was timely and worthy of its below-the-fold placement. Maybe you should read it first, then comment.

lefty

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> "That's exactly that kind of crap Times navel-gazing that makes the place suck so hard: if it's relevant to the three people around me, it must be relevant to 1 million readers!"

this brings a tear to my eye ... finally someone puts into words what i have felt about that newspaper for a long time, and it's a shame considering what good work they can do.

it's idiotic thinking like this that leads to posts on city room about `winking chefs.' um just because you are fascinated by winking chefs doesn't mean anyone else gives a rats ass.

isn't everyone at the times the loudest person in any room they are in?

Dolomite

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> When Jamie Lynn Spears announced her pregnancy, I was the one saying it was a page 1 story.

I imagine these words somehow summoning a Mortal Kombat-esque "Gray Lady" out of the ether who, with a righteous and terrible scream, would disembowel Susan Edgerly in the Times newsroom using just a rolled up copy of the book review.

lawyergay

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> @PandoraSpocks: Word.The yelling is fine. Every idiot male editor yells all the time and no one says jack about it, but God forbid a woman should raise her voice.

But being persuaded by a 10 year old and a 17 year old to put Jamie Lynn Spears on p.1 is a sign of being such a bit too suggestible. That's exactly that kind of crap Times navel-gazing that makes the place suck so hard: if it's relevant to the three people around me, it must be relevant to 1 million readers!

cassandra

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> Does she still have a job there? Because, no Spears trailer park pregnancy should ever be P1 in the NYTimes.

miss_msry

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> Pride AND Terror... sounds like a REALLY big sandwich.

hypocriteoath

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> She can shout as loud as a farmer in a hog calling contest for all I care, but anyone who thinks the pregnancy of a 16 year old redneck girl deserves page one at the NYT is too stupid to have the job she has.

PandoraSpocks

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> Hilariously, at least to me, my first thought about this woman when I saw the photo was: "She looks like a suburban guidance counselor."

Then, I read:

Her job, according to her, is "to listen to the career aspirations of the people in the newsroom and help them realize them,"

Perfect.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[The Loudest Mouth At The New York Times?]]> When IM is not intrusive enough.

Bell County

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