Another one bites the dust

Jim Carty, Ann Arbor News:

http://blog.mlive.com/jim_carty/2008/10/it_was_a_privilege_to_write_fo.html

 

That's what a farewell column is supposed to look like.

 

Someone please email this to our parent company, who continues to strip away any semblance of our shop being a real newspaper anymore:

They're why, even in this age of a rapidly fractionalizing media market, a good local newspaper, and the jobs of local newspaper writers, still can - and should - matter tremendously in creating a sense of community.

 

Agreed...

 

Outstanding farewell column, and kudos to whomever took the time to link to all of those past columns. Newspapers need to do more linking to past stories.

 

Well goddamn .... Carty is one of the real good dudes in this biz. He's helped me in a lot of ways and I wish him the best of luck down the road.

 

Carty and I hooked horns here early and we wound up getting along rather well.
Good luck Jim... and you still owe me a beer at FP...

 

So where is he going? Anybody know? Based on his mugshot, he's too young to be retiring ...

 

Sounded like law school...

 

Footnote said Toledo Law.

 

Thanks. Missed that. Just as most readers skip the byline, I usually skip the tagline unless I'm intent on contacting the writer ...