Getting fired 101: Simulating rape on your equipment manager

[Italian_Stallion]

Lynn, you sure catch a lot of **** on here. How do you sleep at night?

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Newspapers have search engines, some better and quicker than others. Some archives go back further too. And some don't return every pertinent article.

But a basic search at orlandosentinel.com for "Lynn Hoppes", followed by an archive search, might go a long way toward seeing what the truth of all this is. For those who have cared to debate it here.

For what it's worth.

 

[forever_town]

Moddy and forever_town's points are well taken. But I would be shocked if the Orlando Sentinel had a shortage of energetic bucks who would jump all over an investigative story. Orlando isn't exactly a coverage area with a million things going on, which is part of why we laud that newspaper so much here: its great, aggressive work even in a middle-tier sports town.

I obviously don't work at The Orlando Sentinel, so I can't comment on their personnel situation except to say I thought Lynn Hoppes was a woman until this thread.

However, if there's a big investigative piece or a story of mega importance to your market, you don't just throw some energetic buck on it without considering the writer's experience level. You don't send some greenhorn to cover your most important story unless you're insanely stupid or incredibly courageous.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

You don't send some greenhorn to cover your most important story unless you're insanely stupid or incredibly courageous.

The Sentinel has often been lauded here for being quite aggressive and gutsy in hiring quality youngsters, winding up them up, and saying, "GO!" Based on where they end up over the years, its greenhorns have the well-earned reputation of being better than many places' veterans.

If someone said that Mr. Hoppes had to help on these stories because he had the local, longterm connections necessary to get these stories to the finish line, that makes absolute sense. And that should satisfy any questions.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

UCF's baseball coach fired after holding down team equipment manager and acting like he was shoving a baseball bat up his ass.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/college/knights/orl-ucfcoach0308may03,0,1516793.story

That grandstanding Lynn Hoppes at it yet again with his ****ing byline.

He makes Donald Trump seem humble.

 

[Tom Petty]

I'll bet the equipment manager simulated asking for it.

quite possibly your finest hour.