This will not end well... PD reporter slams paper's sports department

Another Plain Dealer question. Does "Plain Dealer" mean, like, "Straight Shooter"?

Or am I making that up.

 

Roy Hewitt can be aloof but he didn't deserve this swipe. Neither did Bud or Livingston.
It doesn't take balls to write something nasty about someone anonymously. If this guy is as bitter as he comes off, he'd be better off finding a new job.
I think it's chicken shit and a cowardly approach to a problem than could possibly be worked out.

 

HR should have a talk with this person, then apologize 20 minutes later.

Seriously, what a stupid thing to do. Probably just a bitter hack who couldn't get in sports there. If I was the boss and found out who it was, they would be fired immediately.

 

Yeah, they could at least make a paper airplane out of a memo.

 

I'm guessing management would react pretty much the same way: Go after the person who penned it, and change little about the underlying situation. Except that your way, no one outside the dump would know about it.

Let's remember that we all take our shots here with anonymity, too.

Plus, newspaper management has created this mess by being resistant to feedback from staffers and taking any criticism as mutiny or personal challenge. They hire a bunch of people who probe, ask questions, challenge authority and seek better alternatives -- for government, schools, sports teams, you name it -- but then they want those employees to shut up and follow orders internally. But the better your staff people are at shutting up and doing as they're told, the lousier their journalism is going to be. On the other hand, if you have hired a bunch of feisty journalists, then you're going to face some dissent and questioning from the ranks -- which ought to be considered healthy and not a challenge.

 

OUGHT to be.

Alas, frequently isn't.

 

Yeah, right, that's why I posted. You agreeing?

 

That was my first thought... Just by mentioning how much Pluto is in the office, that's very obvious...

 

Yessir.

 

It's my understanding that they may be close to finding out who wrote it.

 

Bingo! Deskers are the folks who seem to care about that. Guess they don't want to be the only ones chained to their chairs.

 

Thank you, Inspector Clouseau ....