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Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Left_Coast, Nov 3, 2006.

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  1. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Here is a list of those who didn't make it through the San Jose cuts on Friday.

    http://www.eastbayexpress.com/blogs/why_charles_matthews_won_t_read_the_merc_any_more_/Content?oid=659455

    Of note:

    Dennis Georgatos, 49ers beat writer
    Dave Kiefer, sports writer

    Both were laid off
     
    MileHigh, Mar 10, 2008
    #493
  2. MMatt60

    MMatt60 Member

    also very much of note: Travel writer and former LONG-TIME baseball writer Mike Martinez.
     
    MMatt60, Mar 10, 2008
    #494
  3. Ensign Pulver

    Ensign Pulver Member

    This makes me want to cry. Mike is the nicest guy you'll ever meet in this (or any) business. Aw, shitfuck.
     
    Ensign Pulver, Mar 11, 2008
    #495
  4. MMatt60

    MMatt60 Member

    You're right about Mike. I worked with him briefly in New York (he was with the Times). Great person.
     
    MMatt60, Mar 11, 2008
    #496
  5. SoCalDude

    SoCalDude Active Member

    Mike is one of my best friends, we have known each other for 40 years. A true professional. He was one of the first from the West Coast to get a gig at the NYT and he had enough nad to leave there and return to the West Coast.
    If talent like he has isn't welcome at the Merc, then it's not worth reading.
     
    SoCalDude, Mar 11, 2008
    #497
  6. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    Some very interesting reading here. I never met Paul O. One of my best friends in the business/world is on his list of former colleagues and he raves about the guy. Good enough for me and, reading this, I can see why he earns the raves:

    http://www.oberjuerge.com/
     
    Moderator1, Mar 11, 2008
    #498
  7. MMatt60

    MMatt60 Member

    Paul O makes a great point here: I believe it is telling I was not offered an opportunity to remain at a lower rate of pay, nor offered a transfer to any other job in the paper (or any other in LANG), not even the ones usually associated with entry-level talent. Steve Lambert wanted me gone. What I did the previous 32 years? Didn’t matter to him.
     
    MMatt60, Mar 11, 2008
    #499
  8. Gold

    Gold Active Member

    Thanks for posting that. What Lambert and Singleton have sowed, so shall they reap.
     
    Gold, Mar 11, 2008
    #500
  9. Piotr Rasputin

    Piotr Rasputin New Member

    Oberjuerge does an excellent job there with the description of what that moment is like.

    So, this means the Inland papers have no sports columnist? At all? Because columnist guy didn't get along with bigwig guy?

    Interesting.
     
    Piotr Rasputin, Mar 11, 2008
    #501
  10. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Correct, no regular columnist for the Ontario/San Bernardino papers. I suspect those papers will just pick up Steve Dilbeck out of the LADN, but in terms of a voice for Inland Empire sports, nope, no columnist for those papers.
     
    MileHigh, Mar 11, 2008
    #502
  11. SoCalDude

    SoCalDude Active Member

    Let's see, Paul gets canned because he wrote about L.A. things too much.
    Now, the only access San Berdoo has to columns are those based in the San Fernando Valley, Torrance and Long Beach.
    Lambert must have his head screwed on backward.

    Columnists are the face and voice of the paper.
    San Berdoo now has no face and no voice.
    But it does have Singleton.
    Bad tradeoff.
     
    SoCalDude, Mar 11, 2008
    #503
  12. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    The Inland Empire will really get a kick out of reading about Krikorian's drinking buddies in Belmont Shore.
     
    poindexter, Mar 11, 2008
    #504
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