Heisler's last day

[Rudy Petross]

I know this got posted on another thread, but I thought it deserved its own post. This is beyond depressing. Stay classy Tribune. What really depresses me is the roll call of great people at the times that I grew up reading and now I look at the section and it makes me ill.

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2011/08/mark_heislers_last_day_at.php

 

[poindexter]

Unreal.

 

[ondeadline]

"If only we were as good at newspapering as we are at dumping people."

 

[SportsGuyBCK]

"If only we were as good at newspapering as we are at dumping people."

That's the only thing newspaper executives have ever been good at ...

 

[bumpy mcgee]

"If only we were as good at newspapering as we are at dumping people."

That's the only thing newspaper executives have ever been good at ...

Don't forget taking bonuses.

 

[SportsGuyBCK]

"If only we were as good at newspapering as we are at dumping people."

That's the only thing newspaper executives have ever been good at ...

Don't forget taking bonuses.

Oh yeah -- that's a given ...

 

[SixToe]

What really depresses me is the roll call of great people at the times that I grew up reading and now I look at the section and it makes me ill.

I feel that way when I read the Atlanta and Orlando papers. It sucks but things change.

 

[HanSenSE]

As if this really bad fast-food meal wasn't gonna make me sick enough ...

 

[MileHigh]

Classy by Heisler, and you'd expect nothing less.

Never missed his Sunday package.

His talking of all the great names takes me back. What a section. It was called the World Champion for a reason. RIP.

 

[Versatile]

"If only we were as good at newspapering as we are at dumping people."

That's the only thing newspaper executives have ever been good at ...

I would actually argue they failed in this case. Seriously, if you're making these cuts for financial reasons, why would you give what I presume to be a 32-week buyout package to a guy who was planning on retiring in 40 weeks? That just makes no damn sense at all. If you want to look at it as a nice thing to do, keep in mind that more cuts are coming, we just don't know when yet.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

It never gets easier reading those. I get sick every time...

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

From a journalistic standpoint there's no national basketball writer at the Tribune Co. with a major news story going on.

 

[bpoindexter]

I so didn't care when I got called in at Modesto to get word of my demise that I couldn't have written anything about the experience, let along something as brilliant as Heisler. How the mighty have fallen - the Times, I mean, not Heisler. He's the man, one of my all-time favorites.

 

[Colton]

Ran Mark's stuff all the time off the MCT wire.

Best wishes to him... our business will be much lesser without him.