Re:CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella
by numair on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:49AM
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That’s a pretty rich comment coming from the New York Times, controlled by different, equally troubling oligarchs, with both known and whispered-about baggage of its own.
The fact of the matter is, all of these jobs where others pay you to write can be a bummer if you end up deciding something/someone connected to your workplace is a juicy target for a story. Hence the long-standing tradition of outsiders becoming insiders, and so on, as it has been for all of eternity.
Re:CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella
by _mhyx on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:13AM
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What’s the whispered about baggage? The CIA connections?
Re:CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella
by barry-cotter on Saturday June 20, 2020 @01:41PM
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Carlos Slim is the reason the NYT made it through the media’s trough of sorrow when they went from trying to be a somewhat objective paper of record to being all partisan all the time. He’s a Mexican billionaire who made his money off of having the political connections to get the mobile phone monopoly. There’s shag all negative coverage of one of the world’s richest men whose wealth was based on clientilism.
Re:CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella
by atlasunshrugged on Saturday June 20, 2020 @12:12PM
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Yes, please expand here, I didn't even know about the aforementioned CIA connections
Re:CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella
by skizm on Saturday June 20, 2020 @01:04PM
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For the record, once Warren criticized him about the NDAs during his short presidential bid earlier this year, within two days he released all the women he had under NDA from them as well as any current employees who wished to be released (not sure about other former employees).
Re:CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella
by bbatsell on Saturday June 20, 2020 @01:16PM
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No, he announced that anyone wishing to be released from an NDA could contact the company “and they’ll be given a release”. He very explicitly did not give a blanket release, and we have no way of knowing whether anyone requested but was not actually granted one, because they would remain under an NDA.
(He also deleted the statement as soon as he dropped out of the race, so I have to link to Wayback Machine.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200307041238/https://www.mikeb...
Re:CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella
by skizm on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:12PM
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I don't get what you're saying. Are you claiming he lied? Based on him deleting a bunch of campaign related pages after he ended his campaign?
Re:CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella
by bobthepanda on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:53PM
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What the parent comment is saying is that he made a comment that in practice didn't actually amount to anything.
Re:CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella
by skizm on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:17PM
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But he sent out emails to employees saying they just had to email HR and they would be released from their NDAs. I don't understand what more you want?
Re:CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella
by bathtub365 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:24PM
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I'd like to see some proof it was actually followed up on and people were released from NDA's.
Re:CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella
by skizm on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:25PM
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I mean the company is 20,000+ people and there hasn't been one story of anyone saying they were not allowed to get out of their NDA, nor any stories about being fired or treated poorly after being released. So either, no one took him up on the offer (highly unlikely given 20k people), or there was no issues when it happened.
Re:CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella
by bobthepanda on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:46PM
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It's also worth noting that it doesn't sound like what happens after you get released from the NDA was formalized. Given Bloomberg's reputation it's not unreasonable to think that asking for this puts a target on your back for later retaliation.
Re:CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella
by 8organicbits on Saturday June 20, 2020 @01:27PM
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What's the latest on that? I hadn't heard that he released any of the NDAs, but it looks like I missed it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-21/bloomberg...
Am I missing something broader? That sounds more narrow scoped than what you mention.
Bloomberg has a reputation in the media world as being a very conservative company to work for. I have a relative who worked for them, and while the pay and perks were solid (thanks in large part to Bloomberg's successful terminal business) you can never criticize the company once you leave owing to a very restrictive NDA tied to severance.
There is also, as the NYT put it, "an entrenched culture of bullying, where women are often objectified and sometimes face discrimination, according to interviews with more than a dozen former employees, as well as lawsuits and internal corporate documents." (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/business/michael-bloomber...)
For CityLab supporters, I would be very concerned about the way it's being absorbed into the Bloomberg mother ship. There won't be much independence to ask hard questions when buttoned-down Bloomberg lifers are brought in to keep the kids in line and global multinationals like Hyundai are footing the bill.