Jay Mariotti resigns

How can someone write a column like that?

My granddad used to call that chickenshit.

 

Two Thumbs Up!

 

Singleton is too busy dumping staff everywhere. Why in the world would he add someone that he thinks is worth the price of 50 copy editors? Might as well be thousands of copy editors according to one of the mental giants high up in MediaNews ...

 

The 9 remaining Mercury News employees should go on strike if Mariotti gets hired for the salaries of probably 10+ employees there were laid off.

Here's hoping those remaining welcome him to San Jose by telling him to go fuck himself.

 

Nice touch

 

Bubbler, I don't think "all" of anything -- management or rank-and-file -- is one way. But yeah, from a career's worth of first- and second-hand experience, I do think that many in management have failed this business and the people they oversaw. I think, since they were the ones making the bigger decisions while the worker bees were out gathering, crafting and presenting journalism, that they should have foreseen various threats to this business better than they did. From the Internet to changing readership demographics to the long-term viability of the print and advertising-funded models. That, after all, is why they're called "management."

And believe me, I've come across plenty of rank-and-file slugs who have been lucky just to be employed. No shocker there.

Yet now, because you say so, I'm supposed to give a symposium on the ways this business can be saved. What? How do you make that leap in logic? Apparently, by your thinking, one can't criticize something unless one is actually capable of doing it better. Well, that wipes out all the Monday morning quarterback in the sports pages. And y'know something, you give me the time and the paychecks and the staff and the expense accounts that a lot of the suits have had and I'd take my chances on doing absolutely no worse than so many of these knuckleheads.

You get tired of me posting about management failures and f***-ups, feel free to scroll on by. I won't be offended. Be sure to tell your boss you do that, though, so you can get a pat on the head, a gold star and maybe no pink slip next quarter.

 

Jay's going to Boston ... Jay's going to San Jose.
Jay's got a no-compete clause, from what I hear, so even if other newspapers could afford to hire another columnist, which they can't, he'd face a legal fight from the S-T.

 

Talk about symposiums on who thinks he's right. :

You've been on your horse for months on this topic now. You keep saying the same shit. You continue to paint those with a title you don't like with a broad brush. It's one-note, a misrepresentation of those who don't fit your simplistic view. People like me, who probably agree with you on more of what you say than you think, if you weren't so simplistic about the way you say it. I mean, not every manager is evil.

We all know there's some fucked up things in our biz, many self-inflicted, some a product of technology, some a product of the economy. You're not telling anyone something they don't already now.

 

Reilly had a non-compete too. If someone wants Jay, they'll wait.

I keep hearing his agent is shopping him around the web. No surprise.

 

What's chickenshit about it? Jay will have plenty of opportunity to fire back, and you can bet your sweet ass he will.

Amazing/amusing how people are now falling all over themselves in touching tender protective sympathy for a son-of-a-bitch who's built his whole career on relentlessly attacking everybody he can get his hands on.

 

I don't think anyone feels sympathetic to Mariotti. There are people that believe the Sun Times does not need to act like a scorned lover.