Beware, Trentonian offering jobs that don't exist

I knew that, Joe.

 

ooops... sorry. Misread your response to my comment.

 

Frank is really going to think my interest in Aaron is a bit peculiar and excessive now, but this one is not my fault. Last night, about 6:30, I'm listening to Jody McDonald on 950 a.m. Any guesses as to which Trentonian sports editor was Jody's guest? Oh yeah, it was Aaron Bracy.

During the 10 minute spot, Aaron said three times that the thing he misses the most about leaving the Courier was his weekly sports media column. So finally Jody bit, and said that the great thing about being the sports editor is you can "assign the best stories to yourself." Aaron said, "That's true!" and went on to talk about how he assigned himself to cover that state championship girls' basketball game. That'd be the same game that featured "Reggie Lawrence" debuting as Trenton's coach. The new SE also said, "I oversee the whole sports department. It's been exciting. It's been challenging. My wife misses me a lot more."

Can anybody please help this SE find a writing job? That's what he wants, and it would make his whole family happy. Does the Trentonian need a girls' basketball writer? Everett, don't you have room for another columnist?

TP, how do we know he isn't here to defend himself? I'd think a solid journalist like Aaron would be aware of this site. Aaron really is a capable journalist, so I'd be kind of surprised if he wasn't familiar with this site. If so, that means he's got the opportunity to respond, if he even cares to do so.

 

Are you stalking this guy? You are way too interested in the sport editor of a midlevel paper, no matter how much of a dump it is. JRC bashing is funny and informative. Pointing out that a sports editor might not know what he is doing seems sort of pointless. We could have hundreds of threads dedicated to "look how stupid this guy is."

 

His voice came onto my radio. He's stalking me.

 

Actually, it sounds like his goal is to be the next Chuck Pukanecz/Matt DeRienzo.

 

You've got 14 posts on this site, 13 of them on this thread. Your first post was retyping Aaron's first column into the forum. Your obessesion with this guy goes far beyond stumbling onto some radio program. (and yes, I realize it now seems like I am stalking your SportsJournalists.com activity. I appreciate the irony)

I don't know Aaron, don't care about Aaron. I've never been to Trenton. I've never read either Trenton paper. I just don't understand why this individual gets called out so much for his decisions where there are plenty of stupid sports editors just as worthy of their own thread.

 

It's probably the same reason someone is pretending to be Bob Jelenic and his son when there aren't posters pretending to be other newspaper tyrants or relatives.

JRC holds the honor of being the worst, most evil newspaper chain in the country and Bracy is the 25th-best sports editor at the paper in the past 17 years. It gives me pause when longtime Trentonian sports guys are saying things have never been worse. There is a book dedicated to the sufferings of these people!

 

Bud, there are almost 600 posts on this thread. I've made 13, according to your count. I only account for 2 percent of the posts here. I didn't start this thread. I also didn't bring his name into this thread. I only began posting once the subject switched to him. Half of my posts about him, now also including this response to you, were just part of a bickering match with some guys over whether I should be allowed to criticize him.

As long as people, including yourself, keep responding to my posts or other posts on this thread, I assume the thread will just keep going. If there are other awful newspapers with managers who should be criticized, please feel free to begin threads on them. I'd like to read about them, too.

 

The state girls basketball final! Good God, I don't think I could contain myself either! That plum cannot be passed up.

I've worked for writing sports editors on metros and on a midsize. Sometimes they just have the title and an executive sports editor runs the show, sometimes they call the shots on big things and have an assistant run the day-to-day, sometimes they are pretty hands-on in the office as well as outside, sometimes they aren't. This used to be very common in the business, the thinking being that you didn't want your SE enclosed in glass, you wanted him out schmoozing in the community, you wanted newsmakers and readers to see him as the face of the section. If you've ever read Stanley Woodward's classic "Sports Page" -- and you should, because he was the most important visionary in sports journalism history -- you'd see that Woodward was out there writing. He was the man who brought Red Smith to New York, and despite that kind of writing talent on his staff, he was covering a college football game every Saturday, covering fights, writing a column on Red Smith's one day off. And in the book he explains why. If you think it's a must for SEs to be office-bound, you just don't know a whole lot about the history of the business. So he wants to write? So what?

 

The job ad will appear again probably within 8 weeks. Or 8 days.

 

You keep pimping this book. Now I know you didn't write it, but jeez. I have a huge collection of newspaper histories, and this one is one of the worst, just one long rant. And it's not like a real book publisher put it out.