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Laid-off Gannett sports editor raps company in final column

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by gannettblog, Feb 4, 2011.

  1. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    About 25K on Sunday's. Award-winning, just like every other paper.
     
  2. Desk_dude

    Desk_dude Member

    This paper used to be 60,000 in the 1990s.

    A better column would have been to explain how cutbacks have diminished the quality of the paper. How staffing numbers are down. How pages are down elsewhere. And despite all these problems, he tried his best to put together a great section.

    He didn't really give the readers background in Gannett downsizing. But then again the readers probably have already figured out what's been happening over the years.
     
  3. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    From a journalistic standpoint, that might seem a better route to go.

    But readers don't/wouldn't care about that.

    The personal story/perspective is much more impacting and relate-able, and it is, more often than not, the way to go with today's readers. Especially if he has already been serving as a columnist, anyway.
     
  4. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Ha! You must not work at a newspaper.
     
  5. Frank_Ridgeway

    Frank_Ridgeway Well-Known Member

    This is the same paper that ran the "Fuck You TJ" column when Simers was sports editor. So there is a proud history.
     
  6. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Folks on here have alluded to Simers' idiocy when he worked in Jersey, and I'd love to know the details on that one.
     
  7. Frank_Ridgeway

    Frank_Ridgeway Well-Known Member


    http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/31244/
     
  8. dkphxf

    dkphxf Member

    Au contraire, mon frère. If I should be willing to accept criticism -- and I am, as a writer -- then others should be willing to do so, too.
     
  9. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    Write a column criticizing your company and see how long you keep your job.
     
  10. GlenQuagmire

    GlenQuagmire Active Member


    Congrats to him for speaking his mind - and putting it in print. Not sure how I would have handled that situation.

    Now we'll see if there are any consequences to his actions. He's not the first and won't be the last to be treated like that, but it's still a sad situation. Prayers and best wishes to him and his family.
     
  11. FROM THE COLUMN:

    "I've worked through pneumonia many times, bronchitis, pleurisy, broken ribs, migraines, a gallbladder that stopped functioning for six months and many other ailments that I ignored doctors orders to stay home."

    Maybe they were afraid he was going to drop dead one day
     
  12. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Thanks, Frank, for the link. Sadly, I don't remember that thread, but folks' behavior there says a lot about Whitlock and some of other people who posted.
     
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