Stephen A. Smith new low

[Drip]

Drip you are dry

I know. Thanks anyway Scooper.

 

[Mighty_Wingman]

Somewhere, David Simon is loudly saying "I told you so!"

 

[Joe Williams]

Several things are in play.
First, Richard Prince's stuff is solid.
Second, SAS hasn't and won't agre to the Inky terms.
Third, It's not surprising that AI broke his "retirement" to SAS, whom he considers a friend.
Fourth, For some strange reason, SAS believes the people of Philadelphia misses him from the sports pages. While many do, especially with basketball, his lack of knowledge on other sports hurt him as a columnist. Phil Jasner of the Philadelphia Daily News said it better than anyone else has: "I liked him better when he was just Stephen Smith."

The hangup in Philly, according to the Richard Prince piece, is that Smith won't agree to a code of ethics and won't let his editors limit his outside work.

Isn't that pretty standard stuff for newsroom employees? Why wouldn't he be OK with the first one (unless he planned to do some violatin') and since when can't bosses who are paying you a fat salary in your day job have some say in the work you do elsewhere?

Who are the morons running that newspaper? What a joke of a situation from all sides.

 

[derwood]

Isn't that pretty standard stuff for newsroom employees? Why wouldn't he be OK with the first one (unless he planned to do some violatin') and since when can't bosses who are paying you a fat salary in your day job have some say in the work you do elsewhere?

That violates the guild contract - management cannot treat him differently than every other employee.

 

[Joe Williams]

Isn't that pretty standard stuff for newsroom employees? Why wouldn't he be OK with the first one (unless he planned to do some violatin') and since when can't bosses who are paying you a fat salary in your day job have some say in the work you do elsewhere?

That violates the guild contract - management cannot treat him differently than every other employee.

That's fine then, but management sure better have a thorough way to evaluate performances of folks in their jobs. There have been a few people in this business, you know, who will cut corners in their first 40 hours of a week (newspaper job) to go cash in bigger on their next 10 or 20 hours a week (broadcast or freelance gigs). Which wouldn't even exist for them without the platform provided by the paper.

Never heard of a contract that wouldn't give the bosses some control over hours 41+, if only to make sure you're not moonlighting for a competitor. Until now, anyway. If the bosses at the Inky have no way of holding people accountable to their day jobs, then they're woefully inept and in need of replacing. "Pay me a full-time salary while I go off and work for someone else." Nice.

 

[Drip]

Joe, the Inky created this monster. It was a mistake on many different levels. SAS, who was a nicer person when he was SS, didn't help matters. Now, his ego is bruised.
I don't think you will ever see his byline in the paper again. I've been wrong in the past but I think he distrusts management and the editors who routinely had to re-write his shoddy work.
At the same time, management isn't convinced that his heart is in his work.
He's owed money and the company will pay him. From there, I feel that its best that SAS move on.
It would be good on both fronts.