Screamin' A. gets whacked

www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillygossip/Inqwaster_fires_Stephen_A_Smith.html

Read the first reply, too.

 

SAS might have been too busy watching The Wire.

 

This is tewwible. TEWWIBLE!

Just kidding. His loss, Inky's gain.

 

I thought he quit when the Inky tried to make him a general reporter.

 

Good for the paper, even if David Simon does hate Bill Marimow.

I'm guessing the Inky made book on Stephen A. to counter his team of lawyers, and six months seems more than sufficient to charge job abandonment.

Good luck to him in fighting the "demotion" angle. I've seen time and again where newspapers have the right to reassign staffers, and going from columnist "back" to reporter doesn't rate as a demotion if they leave your paycheck alone. And frankly, it shouldn't -- I know a lot of beat writers who work much harder, and are better journalists, than the folks writing columns. Any big-headed columnist who won't get his hands dirty as a reporter anymore ain't worth a damn.

 

"Quite Frankly...no one is going to miss him!"

 

Stephen A.'s ESPN radio show got whacked in my market a month ago. Station canned him and the "Sports Bash" or whatever the hell it's called now in favor of Dan Patrick. Pretty amusing.

 

I don't think he's going to be eating canned tuna and Ramen noodles anytime soon.

 

I can't believe what the second poster wrote:

"You can't just fire, suspend, etc., especially a union job, because of job abandonment."

Oh, really? Does that mean if I work for a guild paper, I can disappear for six months and not get fired?

 

Awesome, what do I get?

 

Probably not. But those Cheez Doodles won't be too far away. ...

 

I'm certainly not averse to ESPN's overcompensation policies, on principle.

Getting paid a lot of money does not necessarily translate into the recipient being worth a nickel.

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