Editor fired over Saban column?

[tyler durden 71351]

Looks like an Internet hoax has cost someone his job....this is kind of a d_b from an earlier thread about Saban.

http://capstonereport.com/?p=34

EDIT: And if this BLOG! is wrong, my apologies to the man in question.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Ouch.

 

[Shaggy]

Ouch.

 

[Oz]

Dude even got the "Birminham News" wrong in his column. Not that it matters because of the other errors there.

 

[Angola!]

Ouch.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Desperate for a column, isolated, and time-starved . . . sad story.

 

[boots]

Two words - Jack Ass.
If ever there was a no-brainer canning, this one is it. He forgot the most important rule, one that even your's truly has broken, COVER THY ASS!
In this case, there was no cover available. I think it took Dodge more time to write the story than to place a simple phone call to get a quote.

 

[expendable]

You know, if writers continue to do this type of thing, Saban might just become a total ass.

 

[slappy4428]

I read the first post on this thread and my firstthought was "What ding-dong at Tuscaloosa do now?"

 

[Ike Broflovski]

That's exactly what I was thinking, Slappy!

Yes, the writer was horribly sloppy, but where did he get the fake e-mail? If someone from the Birmingham News wrote that and sent it out, even as a joke, he/she has some explaining to do. I hope that's not the case.

 

[Riddick]

Damn!

 

[leo1]

yeah if ever there was a guy who deserved to be fired, this is it. it's sloppy, lazy and ****-poor journalism.

 

[Editude]

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

 

[zeke12]

Damn.

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

But damn.

 

[Ace]

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

Um, you have filled a hole on your page?

 

[Riddick]

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.

 

[chazp]

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!

 

[Rockbottom]

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.

rb

 

[busuncle]

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 Bumble**** deserves a little more sympathy than someone working at a major metro.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

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.