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Saturday, March 13, 2010
New York Times' Arthur Sulzberger Jr. takes huge raise; laid off staff
The New York Times laid off 100 people and cut pay for most employees last year for a nine-month period. All employees except two: Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and Chief Executive Janet L. Robinson. According to The Wall Street Journal, both Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and Janet L. Robinson got huge increases. Janet L. Robinson's overall pay jumped 32 percent to 6.3 million; Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s pay rose to $6 million, double the $3 million of a year before.
What's alarming is Sulzberger and Robinson took these raises while asking their employees to suffer pay cuts and job losses. In May of 2009, Vanity Fair's Mark Bowden wrote that a "doomsday clock" was ticking for newspapers, and Sulzberger was "struggling to keep his family's prized asset alive." Yeah, he's really working hard to do that, huh?
What Sulzberger and Robinson should have done is put those raises back into The New York Times and maintained as much of their staff intact as possible, pay levels and all.
Sulzberger has cried about the New York Times' problems to anyone who would listen. He's given speeches on the impact of the Internet and Google, in particular, on the news industry, as he did at last year's Webby Awards in this video:
What's alarming is Sulzberger and Robinson took these raises while asking their employees to suffer pay cuts and job losses. In May of 2009, Vanity Fair's Mark Bowden wrote that a "doomsday clock" was ticking for newspapers, and Sulzberger was "struggling to keep his family's prized asset alive." Yeah, he's really working hard to do that, huh?
What Sulzberger and Robinson should have done is put those raises back into The New York Times and maintained as much of their staff intact as possible, pay levels and all.
Sulzberger has cried about the New York Times' problems to anyone who would listen. He's given speeches on the impact of the Internet and Google, in particular, on the news industry, as he did at last year's Webby Awards in this video:
Twitter location-sharing is on; be careful how you tweet
After fits-and-starts of being on, then off, Twitter location-sharing is on. Now, you include location information in a tweet. All you have to do, assuming you have a Twitter account, is go to "settings", scroll down, and click on "Add a location to your tweets."
While this feature is great and welcome to all who want to be found, it can be dangerous for those who may be away from home. Someone with an awful heart can essentially "cyber case" a person using Twitter to determine when to try and break in to their home. Or worse.
As the Twitter blog explains, the location-sharing feature is great to inform people of where something's occurring, but the problem is the tweeter has to be in the area where that something's happening.
While I initially was excited about this new Twitter feature, it has the perfect distinction of being a tool that can be used for better or worse.
Stay tuned.
While this feature is great and welcome to all who want to be found, it can be dangerous for those who may be away from home. Someone with an awful heart can essentially "cyber case" a person using Twitter to determine when to try and break in to their home. Or worse.
As the Twitter blog explains, the location-sharing feature is great to inform people of where something's occurring, but the problem is the tweeter has to be in the area where that something's happening.
While I initially was excited about this new Twitter feature, it has the perfect distinction of being a tool that can be used for better or worse.
Stay tuned.
Lady Gaga and Beyonce The Telephone's new make-up soda can look
In the music video for Lady Gaga and Beyonce's The Telephone, Lady Gaga wears a an "up-do" that consists of soda cans while in prison.
In this video by serenaverbon on YouTube, Serena and her cousin Robin show how to create the look, and in the process have built the foundation for the propagation of a new Lady Gaga-endorsed fashion trend.
On her Twitter page, Lady Gaga gave the video the official Gaga cyber thumbs-up with this tweet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8_hrDQyBTo "Soda-do, How to." GENIUS little fashion monsters.
about 17 hours ago via web
Jasmin Malik Chua at Ecouterre was the first online to point to the style and wrote "If Lady Gaga has a passion for trashion, she’s managed to keep it on the down-low." Until now. The prison-inspired look seems right for these economically challenged times and could morph into a form of protest against an economy that's slow to produce jobs.
The "Make-up Soda Can Look" could serve as a perfect statement mocking governments like the State of California that spend more money on prisons than for education. If California's becoming a police state, the "Make-up Soda Can Look" might well become the fashion statement that reflects it.
Unless you doubt Lady Gaga's ability to influence fashion trends, just look at this video-blog I created after I passed by the crowd at Lady Gaga's San Francisco concert last December:
Tiger Woods hires ex-GOP aide Ari Fleischer; plans return to Golf
Accelerating his timetable, Tiger Woods has hired ex-GOP aide Ari Fleischer to help with his plans to return to Golf.
The World's Greatest Golfer hired the former press secretary to George W. Bush to help him recast his image according to ESPN.
The speculation in many corners is that Tiger Woods is going to play in the Tavistock Cup or the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and that his eventual objective is the 2010 Masters.
Tiger Woods image of the rock-solid family man was wrecked by the public revelation of numerous affairs with as many as 12 different women from Rachel Uchitel to Jamie Jungers. Tiger Woods admitted himself to a sex-addiction clinic in Mississippi and was just recently released from his treatment program.
While the idea that one can be addicted to sex is questionable, the fact that Tiger Woods went to get help rubber stamps the idea. The real problem was Woods wasn't be faithful to his wife Elin Nordegren. If Woods wasn't married to her, no one would accuse him of being addicted to sex as opposed to just a partying playboy.
The real story may be that Tiger Woods was trying to escape what may be a controlling relationship with his wife without losing her. Reports that Florida medical assistance workers did think Elin beat the crap out of him Thanksgiving night are surfacing. It's not that Woods didn't ask for it, but perhaps the real story was he was always trying to escape Elin's control and maintain his relationship to hold his image.
Whatever the case, all of that seems to be in the past. Let's hope so.
The World's Greatest Golfer hired the former press secretary to George W. Bush to help him recast his image according to ESPN.
The speculation in many corners is that Tiger Woods is going to play in the Tavistock Cup or the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and that his eventual objective is the 2010 Masters.
Tiger Woods image of the rock-solid family man was wrecked by the public revelation of numerous affairs with as many as 12 different women from Rachel Uchitel to Jamie Jungers. Tiger Woods admitted himself to a sex-addiction clinic in Mississippi and was just recently released from his treatment program.
While the idea that one can be addicted to sex is questionable, the fact that Tiger Woods went to get help rubber stamps the idea. The real problem was Woods wasn't be faithful to his wife Elin Nordegren. If Woods wasn't married to her, no one would accuse him of being addicted to sex as opposed to just a partying playboy.
The real story may be that Tiger Woods was trying to escape what may be a controlling relationship with his wife without losing her. Reports that Florida medical assistance workers did think Elin beat the crap out of him Thanksgiving night are surfacing. It's not that Woods didn't ask for it, but perhaps the real story was he was always trying to escape Elin's control and maintain his relationship to hold his image.
Whatever the case, all of that seems to be in the past. Let's hope so.
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