{"id":17028,"date":"2014-05-15T19:29:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=17028"},"modified":"2014-05-15T21:13:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T19:13:16","slug":"new-york-times-chief-fired-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/new-york-times-chief-fired-because\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Chief Fired Because…"},"content":{"rendered":"

We will never know exactly why Jill Abramson, the first woman to lead the New York Times editorially, left the company abruptly. \u00a0Some say fights in the newsroom. \u00a0Others, that she was disgruntled at being paid less than men in the same job.<\/p>\n

What we do know is that the Times was having a difficult time transitioning to the digital age. \u00a0In the worst of times women are brought in to lead companies. \u00a0Mary Barra at General Motors. \u00a0Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman at Hewlett Packard.<\/p>\n

The flack over the dismissal would be far more shrill if a male editor of color had not been logically available to take over. \u00a0Who else but a person of color or a woman wanted to President of the US when the US, as Timothy Geithner has recently pointed out, was a flaming plane trying to land?<\/p>\n

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We will never know exactly why Jill Abramson, the first woman to lead the New York Times editorially, left the company abruptly. \u00a0Some say fights in the newsroom. \u00a0Others, that she was disgruntled at being paid less than men in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-w-t-w"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t