“When Apple recently booked the cellar dining room at Pranna for a talk with 50 top executives from The New York Times, even restaurant higher-ups didn’t know who their VIP guest would be,” Daniel Maurer reports for New York Magazine.
“But last night [Wednesday, Feb. 3],” Mauer reports, “Jobs came strolling in wearing what our source calls ‘a very funny hat — a big top hat kind of thing.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Yes, Willie Wonka hat!
BTW, one of the issues that The New York Times might be having is that they have 50 FARGIN’ “TOP” EXECUTIVES! Sheesh.
Maurer continues, “Our source says Jobs, who sat at the head of the ‘intimate, family-style gathering’ with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, demonstrated the iPad and its functions, and spoke about how it could serve the future of media.”
“As we’ve reported before, Times executives are wary of forging an exclusive contract with the Apple tablet, though they are moving forward with finding ways to charge for online usage,” Maurer reports.
Read more in the full article here.
The New York WaWa Sandwich Man has confirmed this. Therefore, it is fscking truth.
Ya, not so secret. Only thing we don’t really know is who made the hats.
50 top tier executives at a news paper?!? no wonder they are going broke! In the old days when I ran a weekly free rag in NYC we only had one executive and that was me, Publishing Editor and Chief. Back then it was unheard of for a news paper or print publication to have more then two executives and the New York Times only had two, one for content and one for advertising and circulation. (not counting the Board of Directors or owners of the publication because they are not involved in the day to day operations of the news papers.
He’s telling them not to use FLASH on their homepage.
“Fargin'”
Awesome Johnny Dangerously reference.
IT’S FARGIN’ WAR!!!!!
“He’s telling them not to use FLASH on their homepage.”
Maybe the funny hat was a blue lego piece with a question mark.
Who reads the new york times anyway? And of those, who are in Apple’s target market? Apple would’ve been better off showing off ESPN on the iPad than the NYT.
Wonka Rocks (the original at least). Went to Munich this summer and visited the scene of his factory. Totally awesome experience. So Steve in a Gene Wilder get-up is f*cking insanely cool
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Maybe it was 2 or 3 execs and the rest were art directors, and editors?
I think this is Ballmer-esque, if ya’ll don’t mind me saying so.
Pogue?
NYT with a circulation of merely one million needs 50 top executives? In Holland the daily Telegraaf’s circulation is about the same and profitable with 3 (three) executives, including the top ones.
Who cares about the New York Times? They aren’t the end all beat all newspaper that Apple makes them out to be.
It’s doesn’t seem so “secret”…… 🙂
In a population center exceeding 12 million (New York City and surrounds), 1 million subscribers is pitiful.
BWAHAHAHA! Love that pic!
And yeah, 50 top executives… the problem with the newspaper industry is that they need to cut jobs at the top. Of course, those same people they need to cut, are the ones making the decisions. So, instead, they whinge and bleat and threaten and beg for government handouts to help them perpetuate their bloated and top-heavy organization. Just one of the many reasons I have no sympathy for these folks.
MW: reason
“In a population center exceeding 12 million (New York City and surrounds), 1 million subscribers is pitiful.”
newspapers are for people who can read.
oh, and isn’t the NYT a known leftist publication?
Nobody wants to admit Jobs is a liberal. How many Al Gore level of well known conservatives on the board? The first song he played on ipad was Grateful Dead, and then Bid Dylan. NYT is famously known as the liberal rag. But guess what. Jobs is a business man and he doesn’t get involved in political speech. He can be brutal when necessary, but he can get along with most. Wish our leaders were more like mr Jobs
And yeah, 50 top executives… the problem with the newspaper industry is that they need to cut jobs at the top.
Yep. But who always gets the ax? The beat reporters who write local community news stories and who make a fraction of their top management’s salary. Then, the big guys wonder why they keep losing readers, after there’s no local news left.
Community news still has a niche.
It is fair to rag on the newspaper industry. However there are some inane comments from some who obviously don’t read newspapers, read in general.
@roobler
I have a feeling you wouldn’t know an honest leftist to see one. Try reading a newspaper and gaining some knowledge.
Shortly before PanAm failed, they had 95 executives in their NY office alone. This is a company, at the helm of Juan Trippe, innovated aviation travel across the globe.
The NY Times is being given a song and dance to get the buy-in on their final chance, a salvation that will also render this 50 executives obsolete.
I don’t want a subscription to the Times, I don’t want a free registration for the Times, I want a micropayment system that allows me to read any article in any publication for a few cents.
I’ll probably subscribe to the Economist once I’m out of debt, because that magazine is consistently a great read, but for everyone else, let me skim the surface, while letting me reward the publishers/authors/creators.
Please?
@seemoreglass
There is a difference between knowledge and wisdom. The problem with the NYT is that I can no longer trust what I read in that paper. Their “journalists” over the past several decades have gotten bored with merely reporting facts, and have decided that editorializing is their purview.
@ Ben Dover
“The first song he played on ipad was Grateful Dead, and then Bid Dylan.”
Come on, I’m a conservative that LOVES the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan. They transcend petty politics.
so much for keeping it a secret