Keith Kelly of the New York Post reports on the latest critic to join AT in noting that the New York Times' top management continues to grant itself lavish compensation, while business results are poor and tockholders have lost almost half their investment in the past couple of years: The whopping stock grants given to New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and President and CEO Janet Robinson last year were blasted by a proxy watchdog service, which gave the company's executive compensation a barely passing grade of "D." Restricted stock awards made to Robinson in 2005 increased nearly fivefold from a year earlier to approximately $2 million, noted the Glass Lewis proxy report, which was released late last week. Sulzberger's own stock awards nearly doubled in that timeframe to approximately $817,500. [....] The report prepared by Glass Lewis and released late last week also ripped the Times company's decision to eliminate a plan that gave employees a 15 percent discount to...(Read Full Post)