Editor fired over Saban column?

I've never understood columns that quote stories in other papers. Even if the quotes are accurate, what service have you provided?

 

Damn.

You'd like to say that it could never happen to you.

But damn.

 

Um, you have filled a hole on your page?

 

yeah, but i try to make it a practice that i never write a column regarding a beat I don't actually cover. trusting second-hand information like that can lead to......well, ya know....this.

 

What a dumb ass. If didn't even pick up the phone and try and contact the nonexistent Steve Reeves, he deserves to be fired!

 

As an incredible aside, there actually is someone who is named Steve Reeves practicing journalism in Alabama. He is, I believe, assistant city editor at the Tuscaloosa News.

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Unfortunate story. Obviously, an egregious mistake, but I think someone working 60 hours a week and making peanuts at a Gannett newspaper in Bayou La Bumblefuck deserves a little more sympathy than someone working at a major metro.

 

Having worked at a Gannett newspaper in Louisiana, I can say they're asking for more of this and other problems the more they cut staff, insist upon more and sexier stories, more mainstreaming, more meetings, no overtime pay, less travel money and say they can make do with fewer checks and balances in place.

I'll even go so far as to say I expect that within a year there will be another major gaffe at one of their papers in this state, one that will be in the same no-no ballpark.

 

You all blame Gannett. I think this is a stealth plan by Nick Saban to get all the reporters in the world fired.

 

SEE! It's a damn plot! I just got the wrong ding-dong in Tuscaloosa!