New York Times chief executive Mark Thompson faces fresh claims he imported 'deplorable discrimination' from the BBC by paying women SEVEN per cent less than men
(Butch gay males generally despise women. Many think they should be excluded from public life or not allowed to live at all.)
DID HE ALSO BRING THE VALUES OF HIS COLLEAGUE SIR JIMMY SAVILE TO THE NY TIMES?
WHY WAS AN AMERICAN NOT HIRED FOR THIS JOB?
Apparently he was approved by Arthur Sulzberger Jr.,chairman of the board of NY Times.
In 2002,Thompson joined the board of trustees of Media Trust,the UK's leading communications charity.
He is a member of the Reform Club and a patron of the Art Room charity in Oxford.
He was a guest in the Royal Box at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee concert in June 2012.
In 2012, Thompson served as the first Humanitas Visiting Professor in Rhetoric and the Art of Public Persuasion at the University of Oxford.
On 14 August 2012, he was named CEO of The New York Times Company, effective November 2012.
THOMPSON'S FATHER IN LAW
He is married to Jane Blumberg,daughter of the late Dr. Baruch Samuel Blumberg who did graduate work in biochemistry at Balliol College, Oxford and earned his Ph.D there in 1957
Throughout the 1950s, Blumberg traveled the world taking human blood samples and studying the inherited variations in human beings, focusing on why some people contracted diseases in similar environments that others did not. In 1964,
He discovered the Hepatitis B vaccine which was tested on Chinese children.
Blumberg was the first director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute
His funeral was held on April 10, 2011 at Society Hill Synagogue,