By Joel Thurtell
They’ve done it again.
Honchos at America’s Number One Newspaper Chain surpassed themselves.
I’m talking greed, of course.
Who else does it as well as Gannett?
Can you believe Gannett CEO Craig Dubow banked $4.7 million last year — including a $1.5 million BONUS — while laying off 6,000 Gannett workers nationwide?
Talk about gaping.
You know what I mean: Nether holes of humongous proportions.
And then, there were the furloughs.
Free Press friends are taking payless vacations while Dubow is rolling in his million and a half-smacker bonus.
Dubow was not the only hog at the trough.
According to the Gannett Blog, “Gracia Martore, promoted last month to president and chief operating officer, got $4 million as chief financial officer — more than doubling her $1.4 million in 2008. Her 2009 bonus: $950,000, …”
Union leaders were gulled last fall when Detroit muckamucks supposedly showed them the books and persuaded them the papers were going broke.
Wonder how Teamsters and Guild and printers union members feel now that Gannett has owned up to not being quite so penniless as they claimed.
When will people learn? NEVER, NEVER, NEVER believe a Gannetoid.
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