DO YOU BELIEVE YOUR LYIN' EYES? -- Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 04-08-09

Hello again –

You’re in for a treat when Homer and Billy Bob and Miz Pearl get to deconstructing just what’s happening in that anti-right-to-work state of “Taxachusetts” where the Boston Globe is in danger of being shut down by its newspaper unions. I think there’s about 13 involved from the pressmen to the news and editorial writers.

The dilemma is the New York Times bought the Globe a few years back… in more prosperous days. Now the Globe, we understand is hemorrhaging red ink. Managers from the Times have told their minions at the Globe, either “get the bottom line shaped up or we’ll shut it down.”

Hardly in accord with the Times’ hard line in opposition to right-to-work laws, which generally protect companies from being bullied by union leaders.

So here’s the Globe trying to save the sinking ship – about to slip under the journalistic waves by tough union rules and outlandish contracts – being told by New York types: “Either staunch the bleeding or prepare to die.” This from a newspaper that thinks nothing of impaling a company being bullied by union management. When the shoe is on the other foot of a NYT-owned paper the line suddenly becomes a fiscally conservative feature – don’t pass the ideology this way. It’s hard to stand up in that kind of current.

Stay tuned as the battle is joined – find out which is more important: Survival of a company providing employment and services to a major metropolis, or following the dictates of distant ideologues who expect the Globe to ‘spend its way out of difficulty.’ It’s a battle of Titans locked in a rock-and-hardplace wrestling match. The outcome should be instructive.

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack Buttram

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“JUST A MINUTE”

DO YOU BELIEVE YOUR LYIN’ EYES?

BB: JIST A MINITE – Whuts’s awl this trash tawk about …

HOMER: Hit ain’t trash tawk – is hit Mr. Jack?

JACK: What is it we’re arguing about?

BB: See… at’s whut ah said… they’s nothing…

MIZP: Why of couse they is Mr. Beeliee…. You gotta straighten thangs out.

JACK: Ok… let’s start from the beginning. What’s in dispute?

BB: The dispute is the New Yawk Times Company, which owns th’ Boston Globe is a-threatenin’ ta' close th’ Globe down if’n th’ Globe’s unions don’t quick give cornsessions about money

MizP: Well Ah-don’t unnerstand.

HOMER: Hit is complcated MizPearl -- see th’ New Yawk Times owns th’ Boston Paper.

MizP: Uh huh…

HOMER: But th’ Boston paper is a-losin’ s’much money the’ New Yawk paper

Can’t afford ta' keep hit a-floatin’ –

MizP: I unnerstan

BB: So th’ New Yawk Times’s managers has said ifn’ they don’t get some cornsessions

Frum the New Yawk unions… like cutting pensions an so forth…

MizP: They gonna shut hit down?

BB: At’s rite.

MizP: Ain’t the big new Yawk paper always a-fussin’ about Rite to Work states an gummite a-jumpin’ in a-telling how ta' run th’ compny?

BB: At sho is rite, MizPearl… They ain’t th’ ones now ta' be a-jumpin’ th’ fence air they – Mr. Jack?

JACK: Well… it does seem inconsistent.

MizP: Means they ain’t a practicing whut they’s a preachin’

HOMER: Has they done gone ta' preachin’ too?

BB: Oh – that’s jist a fig Newton of her ‘magination.

MizP: Fig Newton huh… I’ll show you a fig Newton…

HOMER: Wait a jist minnit Miz Pearl – put down that umbreller.

BB: Ah don’t intend ta' git hit…

JACK: And I ‘b’leve we’ve run out of time so these folks’ll be back next Wednesday… I’m Jack Buttram.

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