Wednesday, April 23, 2008
FINALLY, NYT GENERATES BUZZ
NYT chairman Arthur “Pinchy” Sulzberger calms shareholders:
"This company is not for sale,” Mr. Sulzberger said at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in New York. “This company will continue to have the ownership it enjoys today” …
Mr. Sulzberger drew a laugh when he joked about a bee buzzing around his head, saying the insect was one of the joys of having a garden in the company’s towering new headquarters just off Times Square.
Sulzberger should read his own troubled newspaper, which reports that bees are a sign of economic destruction:
In a county with one of the nation’s highest foreclosure rates, empty houses have attracted a new type of nonpaying tenant: bees.