By
Erik Wemple
The Washington Post
The video above answers the pressing question of whether newspaper
veterans can serve as fierce union advocates: They could use some
training.
There’s too much even handedness and high-mindedness to get really
riled up about the position of the New York Times Co. in the ongoing
negotiations with the Newspaper Guild of New York. In the two
minute-plus presentation, Times national correspondent Amy Harmon says
“it’s frustrating” that the negotiations “haven’t gone anywhere.”
Reporter Kevin Sack laments that the Times could bleed talent to
competitors willing to pay great salaries. Reporter Dan Barry gets a
touch more direct: “I like having my pension, and I’d like to keep it.”
In a brief chat, Barry acknowledges: “We’re probably better
journalists than union advocates.” Harmon on the same topic: “We want to
uphold the quality of the paper. Everyone I know feels that way —
that’s what we’re fighting for. I don’t think that makes us bad
activists.”
No matter, really: The slide near the end of the video, about former
CEO Janet Robinson’s exit package, provides a militant finishing agent.
By
Erik Wemple
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06:19 PM ET, 05/08/2012
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