Les Jones

Media Behaving Badly > New York Timesing the New York Times

What happens when you apply the standards of a NY Times piece criticizing the rest of corporate America to the NY Times own corporate numbers?

The chart above does to the New York Times Company what it did to all the other companies. It displays the data that show whether wages and benefits are growing or flat. It reveals whether worker's compensation is keeping pace with growth in output, or even (for that matter) with inflation. Since employees of the company are roughly five times more unionized than employees of other American companies, it also sheds light on whether trade unions are the answer to lagging earnings. Is it fair to judge this particular company for the fact that its workers only receive a little more than one-third of the total output of the company? It is -- when they condemn the rest of them for paying out only about half.