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Tribune hierarchy unveils method to madness

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Andy _ Kent, Jul 21, 2008.

  1. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    But even though promoting whatever talent you have left is a good idea (provided you have a marketing budget remaining) he mixes it up with a completely different issue about chain of command.

    Yes, some bosses might feel uncomfortable about one of their people going over their heads about something.

    I don't think the boss is saying, "Sandy, you can't talk to Lee Abrams, dammit, or he'll find out you're talented!"
     
  2. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    But the boss might be saying, "dammit, Sandy, you can't talk to Abrams" and then thinking, "because if you do, I might lose my job because I spend most of day posting on internet message boards and that I'm actually not that good."
     
  3. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Golly, that would be a stupid boss, indeed.
     
  4. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Why did Poynter spread this over three web pages? Did it want more hits?
     
  5. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    Maybe this was posted elsewhere today, Saturday's Tribune will experiment with entertainment and consumer reports in the front section, with news moved to section 2. Cute.

    http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=30261

    Love the guy wanting to say 'From the Newsroom' instead of 'Wire Report'....... 'Well, Mr Abrams, technically that would be a lie.' 'A lie? Why? Someone must work in a newsroom, right? Dammit, can we just have it sent from a newsroom? We'll build one! Today! We must try EVERYthing!'
     
  6. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    The most drastic change, of course, will be saved for sports, which apparently is going to be converted to a tabloid format...

    Wow.
     
  7. Andy _ Kent

    Andy _ Kent Member

    Forget the blue font I presume?
     
  8. Clerk Typist

    Clerk Typist Guest

    This was tried in the early 1980s with the Monday sports section. Lasted a couple of years, I think.
     
  9. SF_Express

    SF_Express Active Member

    You know what? This guy is mostly out of his mind, but his thoughts on surpressed stars, and ideas being swept aside by worried bosses, are not exactly a fabrication about this business.
     
  10. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Blue is for sissies.
     
  11. Andy _ Kent

    Andy _ Kent Member

    Ha! Good comeback. Of course half of that blog might have looked better in blue, then he could have claimed he was just joshing, especially with the "From The Newsroom" remark.
     
  12. Joe Williams

    Joe Williams Well-Known Member

    As much as I would love to see some middle-management (and up) types take it in the neck in this industry turmoil, I wonder if the new guys like Zell's Angels will assume that, if tight-assed, backward-thinking stiffs hired the current staffs, then they surely hired the wrong kind of front-line people anyway.

    Actually, in some cases, there might be great truth in that. Not in my boss' case, of course. ;D
     
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