TL trying to woo Times-Shamrock reporters?
NEPA Media was first to catch on to this interesting tag in a recent newsroom note from Times Leader editor Matt Golas...
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Yes Matt, I believe we know who you are talking about.
We have a few more key newsroom reporting and editing openings. We’d love to give local, seasoned journalists a shot at working at the best newspaper in Northeast Pennsylvania. You know who we are talking about. Spice up your work life and give me a call.
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Yes Matt, I believe we know who you are talking about.
posted by Howard Beale at 9:49 PM
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Matt said: We’d love to give local, seasoned journalists a shot at working at the best newspaper in Northeast Pennsylvania.
Thanks for the offer, Matt, but I'm already there; I joined the CV a year after the strike began. I was a better (and more original--cough) arts critic than Roy Morgan, as Chris Vail; more incisive and galling (to the stations) radio/tv reporter than R.J. Morgan, as Bart Sommers; and 25 years as a big band columnist, Jan Souther, with friend George "Jazzbow" Rihan ain't too bad either.
Not only that, but Bounceback Connors once tried to fire me from my Day Job for using a pen name! A futhermucking Pen Name! It only took him four years to discover what even Charlie Weiss knew, that Chris Vail and me were closer than Jesus and The Father.
Sorry, Mattsie; the Voice may have its ups and downs, good times and bad, but --what the heck-- it's home. Now that Ed Lewis is gone, we do have a spot, if you'd like to move up the street.
They're BA-ACK!
I see dead people. Excuse me, newspaper people.
If the T-L is looking for the best of the best of the best, why would Matt look around here? And isn't working for "the best newspaper in Northeastern Pennsylvania (the-T-L???)," akin to driving the safest Pinto?
Final question: do all the local newspaper people reaslly get their pay in vending-box quarters?
Hey, Tom, where did Ed Lewis go, what were the circumstances?
And you do mean Doctor Roy Morgan, don't you?
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6:23 said: Hey, Tom, where did Ed Lewis go, what were the circumstances? And you do mean Doctor Roy Morgan, don't you?
(a) Ed Lewis. (1) TL, as you know. (2) Don't know the circumstances, as I am not in the newsroom and don't ask. I keep to my Day Job here and let them keep to their Day Job there. Better that way.
(b) You mean Doctor Doctor Roy Morgan, as he has Honorary doctorates from both King's and Wilkes, and deservedly so. However, you know as well as I that the WILK staff wrote his stuff, and/or took it from music books.
btw: The good Dr. Dr. Morgan, till the day he died, knew what was going on in the radio business just about everywhere. The guy lived and breathed radio.
T-L writers/editors, in the main, make CV writers look they're going backwards. Plain, simple, to the point, the T-L is a better newspaper. The union crap is a dead issue, and I suspect so is the CV. The Lynetts may be facing their first failure.
Just sign me "A very pro-union pragmatist." Times have changed, the landscape is wide-open for new ideas.
The Lynetts make money in spite of themselves. It's a hundred mile an hour cash freight train that can't be derailed without a string of MAJOR screw-ups. The screw-ups are plentiful but when a major one pops up, even though the brain that created the empire is long dead and everyone in charge there now comes from Silver Spoon City, even they can recognize a major screw-up. Failure? No. Won't happen. It will make money forever or until they sell it all. And with each generation reproducing exponentially, they're not going to ever sell it.
The Lynetts a screw up???
Boy I wish I could screw up like that....build a regional newspaper chain an local radio station group into a good sized company. Yep, sign me up for that screw up any day of the week.
Failure is often fueled by greed, and greed often arises out of necessity. With each new generation of Lynetts, there are more mouths to feed, since it appears most all of them are going into the family business. They are a growth economy unto themselves. They stop growing, no more positions for the sons and daughters, and their yet born sons and daughters. I still say the day will come when they buy WYOU.
FWIW, I thought Roy Morgan showed a complete impropriety in using an honorary degree to put "Doctor" in front of his name. I have never heard of anyone doing such a thing.
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5:51 said: I thought Roy Morgan showed a complete impropriety in using an honorary degree to put "Doctor" in front of his name. I have never heard of anyone doing such a thing.
It's generally felt (if I may refer to "Dear Abby" and others) that you use "Doctor" on the day you are Doctorized and then have the document framed for your hallway or living-room wall. It is, indeed, improper to use the title after that, as it is purely honorary. Seems to me I'm an honorary something-or-other (no smart remarks, thank you), which was fun for the day.
It is, indeed, improper to use the title after that, as it is purely honorary.
Thank you, padre, at least I know I am not alone. Not only did Mr. Morgan call himself doctor, he insisted upon it. The word "gauche" comes to mind. You don't often hear it these days, but it seems to fit.
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