Rob Parker controversy

Wow. Columbia. Would have never thought. I agree, it seems like it all stems from laziness. And I guess it doesn't matter so much that he's lazy; he's the one who has to wake up with that every morning knowing he is half-assing it. It's the fact that there are way too many good writers out there either making way too little, or unemployed, or working at Taco Bell for Rob to be continually screwing the pooch and keeping his job.

It is time for a fresh voice.

 

For some reason, the people with the power to hire and fire like him. Maybe he's got dirty pictures or something I don't know.

 

It isn't a one-man crusade. Take the blinders off on this thread and you'll see that.

But since you ask... lazy, irresponsible journalism galls me. Lazy irresponsible journalists -- anywhere -- need to step aside in a profession where jobs are dwindling. I wouldn't work at the News, never applied there, never wanted to since I quit my paper route. But others who work hard deserve the shot that this clown has squandered. For example, John Niyo works his ass off. Does his work and does it well. He's fair and honest and above reproach. But retreads like Parker, who might be nice guys but have become reckless and carefree with their work, find an act and treat the business like a freakshow for their own gain.
I'm not John Niyo, but I know him. And I;'m not trumpeting his cause, but using him as an example. He's 10-times the writer and 100-times the professional Parker is. And there are 100s of guys like him at papers now or had to get out because they haven't had the opportunity to move ahead because clowns of clowns like parker.
His 15 minutes are up because he pissed away 14:59 of them and it's time for him to step aside. Some people can handle the chance to be on TV and radio and in print. Parker isn't one of them and this is another display proving it.

 

Drip, Rob Parker has not "become" a lazy journalist. He always has been a lazy reporter and a bad writer. That rep goes back to his days in New York.
And a masters from Columbia doesn't make him any smarter than anyone else.

 

You actually went back and counted Slappy's posts?

Talk about creepy ...

 

I differ with you on that spnited. He didn't make the errors that people have been pointing out when he was in New York at the Daily News. Maybe at Newsday he became lazy but he wasn't lazy at the DN.
As for the master's at Columbia, I don't have one. I don't think you do either. Obviously the guy is bright. But there is a difference between book sense and common sense. Rob of late has not been using the latter.

 

Agreed. There are a LOT of us out here who find Parker's actions offensive, even more so in a world where good journalists -- including several well-regarded columnists who know how to f***ing behave themselves at a press conference -- are collecting pink slips.

 

He has?

When?

 

Forgot the word not in there. Sorry.

 

LOL.

They -- the lazy and the irresponsible, never mind the inept -- are the last people who ever step aside, because they never feel any pangs of conscience over stealing someone's money or squandering an opportunity that others might treasure. (Come to think of it, just who does step aside anymore, in the interest of what's right? More often, someone is lawyering up instead.)

Anyway, the lazy and the irresponsible in our business often just pursue second and third jobs in electronic media or internet exposure, thereby stealing from multiple parties.

Which is why it falls on the bosses at the day job to conduct themselves like professionals and uphold some standards. Damn few left.

 

Spot on, Joe.

 

Hell, he's been making mistakes BEFORE his New York days when he was at the Freep.