Another one bites the dust
Times Leader editor Matt Golas is out the door. The newspaper reports he's been bumped by Rich Connor, who plans to add "editor" to his existing titles of "president" and "publisher." The TL quotes Connor as saying, "My intention all along was to do both jobs. Basically that’s what I’ve always done."
Cripes, is there something in the water supply that is causing everyone to leave the newspapers and television stations around here?
Cripes, is there something in the water supply that is causing everyone to leave the newspapers and television stations around here?
posted by Howard Beale at 2:44 PM
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Yes, it's the never-ending hunt for obscene profits. Respectable profits are no longer good enough, corporate America wakes up daily looking for a way to squeeze another nickel and dime out of the rank and file. Corporate America has no conscience; never had, and never will.
Ya, people are leaving, but what about the newbies, including Sarah Buynovsky @ WNEP. At least to my knowledge, she is the first reporter in the area to work at a 24/hr local station (News 10 Now Syracuse) and then come directly to Wilkes/Scranton. I think that is worth mentioning, I thought WNEP might shy away from 24/hr local reporters.
HB said: Cripes, is there something in the water supply that is causing everyone to leave the newspapers and television stations around here?
Options are: jumped, pushed or fell. Not all jumped.
RC: "Well, Matt, time we had a chat."
MG: "Let me be the first to welcome you aboard, sir."
RC: "First item of business will be Jason, Vince and Pat. Things always happen in threes, but in the New TL, they happen in fours."
MG: "Not sure I understand."
RC: "As publisher and editor..."
MG: EDITOR??
RC: "...I have already written your good-bye piece. Security is cleaning out your desk and Bob Kadluboski towed your car out of the lot to the street."
MG: WTF??
RC: "And you're not getting an editorial cartoon, either."
It was Matt Golas who wrote: "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."
Sure, Matt. What's the phone number there on the unemployment line?
Carmen Grant came right from News 10.
It's the coal dust wafting over from the Ashley mine graveyards. Or perhaps from bad water seeping into the city's drinking water supply from the shit creek in Nanticoke.
"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."
The guy never, ever returned e mails or phone calls to anyone on any subject, whether it was employment, philosophy of news or from a sister paper that needed an opinion or approval on something. And the line that he "so seriously underestimated his staff" when he first got here was classic. Bring in a hotshot from Philly, put him in a downtown penthouse and watch him sneer and turn his nose up at local, hard working people who know the terrain, know the area and pay their dues. Then when his new boss sees through him in a nano second, we're supposed to feel bad? Yeah, sure!
Wow! Kick someone who just got fired! Nice! Glass houses, David.
David hit the nail on the head. Fennick wonderfully captured the more subtle aspects..."Connor asked reporters and editors to be respectful toward Golas" (don't laugh and point fingers at the guy who did the same to us country bumpkins), "I think the words (Connor) used were that one of us would kill the other," Golas said. (nice), and the classic "I so undervalued this staff" (and completely looked down at this town, this county, and the rest of you lower-class nothings)
Did anyone see the full page add in a recent Times Leader? It is an essay contest, something like 50 words or less. The best writers will be chosen for some sort of steering committee, and will help shape the future of the newspaper itself. This Connor guy is seen sitting on a board room table, behind him are empty chairs to be filled by I guess "regular people". Comments? Howard... start a whole new thread on this one!
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