Jay Mariotti resigns

What, no pink or orange sherbet-hued laces?

 

Couch is hardly a newcomer. And you can't have the scores before anyone else, unless you're predicting them.
Methinks ed-in-chief Cooke needs a copy editor.


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The Sun-Times has always lagged behind the Trib in updating its Web site. I often don't check the Sun-Times until the next morning, because it's usually after midnight that a lot of its stories are updated.
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My point was that everyone gets the scores at the same time, when the game ends.
But from what I've seen of their web sites, you're right, the Tribune is usually updated quicker.

 

It's surprising that this is coming from Cooke, who was basically the only backer Mariotti had left at the S-T. Of course, I'm sure he didn't like being ambushed by the Trib.

 

I know, ginger. I agree with you; I was just expanding on what you said. I should have added some sort of transition. My fault.

 

Well, if he hated Mariotti so much, what was he doing there for 17 years?

 

Because Cooke, the EIC, was on his side. Stu Courtney (sp) didn't like him, from what I've heard. What part of my post eluded you?

 

If you posted girlie Manolo's, you might catch Cooke's eye. At least that was the rumor when he was ed-in-chief of the NY Daily News. The Post loved to run nasty stories about his alleged foot fetish:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-06-07/news/paper-trained-no/
Just to summarize the latest Post-News unpleasantness: Some weeks ago, the Post reported that the News' new editor in chief, Michael Cooke, has a shoe fetish. Really? And how was that supposed to encumber his journalism? I was once told that a gifted and well-known newspaper editor liked to have sex wearing diapers. (I never followed up on it.)

More recently, the Post made a big deal—for several days—out of its disclosure that Cooke had recycled in the News a travel article he had written and published in the Chicago Sun-Times a year ago, when he was editor in chief there. Definitely a journalism misdemeanor, since he never disclosed its earlier publication or that his travel was apparently paid for by the owners of the English castle/hotel the gushy article was about.

(the above pars were from the Village Voice piece, just to be clear.)

And it's my experience that English editors love these sort of pissing matches.

 

"The voice of Chicago sports"? Are you kidding me?

I've spent, probably, hundreds and hundreds of mornings on the train or afternoons on a bus with the Sun-Times, and have read a Jay Mariotti column probably four or five times. That's why I don't complain about him, because I know what he's about and just don't read him.

There is no "voice," because Telander has been milquetoast for a decade now and the Morrissey/Downey combination is the worst duo in any medium-to-large paper in the United States.

 

If newspapers are dying, why did Mariotti stay at one for so long?

 

If Cooke was on his side, he doesn't seem to be overly upset by his departure.

 

Sigh.

I don't think you realize the depths of the Sun-Times-Trib rivalry. There was an S-T staffer who gave his two-weeks notice to go to the Trib. He was escorted to his desk, made to pack in front of security and shown the exit immediately.