More from Lean Dean

Every broadsheet is going to be that size pretty soon. Brace for it. And get somebody who know what they're doing to make the agate work.

 

I take that back. Sounds like they don't need Lean Dean to grind the Register into the ground. Well, that's one less good read in SoCal.

 

Here's an update on the proposed Daily News cuts: http://thenutgraph.blogspot.com/

 

Attention everyone. Yup, according to Lean Dean, you're all a bunch of whiners.

http://www.howardowens.com/2008/three-newspaper-leaders-talk-to-naa-audience-about-change/


Lean: “If you read Romenesko every day and you hear our people in newsrooms whine — they whine and whine and whine wishing for the old days to come back. Damn it, I wish the old days would come back, too, but wishing for it isn’t going to make it happen. You must be focused on the future.”

 

How can they be focused on the future if they're getting tossed out the door?

 

Dean Singleton's mouth and anus -- and their emanations -- have become impossible to discern.

 

So Dean wants to focus on the future . . . . .

January 2006, General staff meeting at a Singleton-owned newspaper:

Newspaper's publisher: "Dean Singleton is really pushing the Internet, he thinks it's the future."

Yeah, no shit?

One man's "This is the FUTURE!!!!" is another man's "Where the F$#@ have YOU been for the last decade or so?"

 

Loved the quote about people not wanting the same paper they've been getting for the past 30 years. So obviously giving them less of the same paper they've gotten for the past 30 years is the answer.
If this guy had an original idea or had a reputation for hiring people and letting them experiment and push the envelope, I'd buy his "future" talk. But he doesn't. His future is more cuts, doing less with less and ever-diminishing returns. He's been a bottom feeder for his entire career but the pond is getting lower and lower every day.

 

I also found Brian Tierney's comment about the Inky and Daily News being better than they were before the staff cuts interesting. Sounds to me like a slap in the face to all those vets they cut loose, but than again, I'm just an overly sensitive whiner.

 

Q: How can you tell Dean Singleton is lying?

A: His lips are moving.

 

Have we ever, EVER seen one suit or high honcho boss say that the quality of the newspaper is worse than it was because of all the talent and wisdom tossed overboard?

Been catching up on Season 4 of The Wire, too, and love, love, love what David Simon did in venting about his newspaper days by naming a jerk police boss "Marimow." We all should get an at-bat that way, nailing a nemesis by linking him to a fictional prick in some other medium.

There would be a lot of "Lean Dean" drooling village idiots and "Singleton" livestock molesters in books, TV and movies.

 

John Fogerty got sued for doing that, wrote a song in which the pig in the video had a name close to that of a record company exec.