Star-Telegram update

don't wanna begrudge anybody the money they can make because, well, if some fool is willing to pay it, then so be it.
but when I see that $250-$350 K salary being given to some of those that have been mentioned earlier on this thread, then i also have a little trouble sympathizing with the company's plight. some of this is common sense you learned at an earlier age...i know, i know...maybe it's not reality, but maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea in these days to think a little logically.
at the time some of these dudes were being paid outlandish salary for getting a "name' person to wake up the competition, there was eventual hell to pay at a later date. and that date has obviously arrived.

 

Not to justify it completely ... because 300K is a lot of money under any circumstances ... but, once upon a time, and not so long ago, newspapers used to be among the most profitable businesses in America.

Throw is a contentious war between the DMN and the Star-Telegram, and you can begin to see the motivation for the underdog S-T to fork over the money to steal the DMN's prized columnist. At the time, for those of us old enough to remember (and again, we're talking the 90s here, not WWII), Galloway's hiring was a huge, huge salvo in the Metroplex newspaper wars.

It's easy, in retrospect, to look back and say it was too much money. But newspapers were printing money then. If not on Galloway, the S-T would have just blown the money on something else.

In the grand scheme of things, Galloway's huge salary played a very small part in the downfall of the S-T. Most of the damage was done by the same litany of factors that are strangling us all.

 

If you paid me $300K a year, I'd be a lot cooler and hang out with a much hipper crowd.

And the line about "boring, unreliable or impossible to get along with" sounds to me like a great description of the S-T brass after they've shown dozens of people the door.

Think I'll pass on this piece of rancid sausage.

And like others on here, I wish the best to all who are facing layoffs in Dallas-Fort Worth.

 

Anybody who thinks the downfall of this business had anything to do with the occasional person actually making good money has a serious misunderstanding of the situation.

 

At the time Galloway was hired they were probably spending that kind of coin in Arlington every week.
My best to those affected, which really is everybody there.

 

You know, when the Herald dumped people, including me, in 2005, the people doing the dumping behaved quite decently and with at least a modicum of sensitivity.
Did they install some test in 2005 for newspaper top management that only complete shits are allowed in the field?

 

I have complete and utter distain for the management at McClatchy (Gary "Golden Boy" Pruitt) and the Star-Telegram (Witt and Wortel; W=Worthless). Think of the worst fates you can wish on people and that's what I hope happens to them.

 

More from the pipeline:

The writers who will be let go if no others take the offered buyout include: NBA writer Jan Hubbard, horse racing writer Gary West, TCU beat writer Mercedes Mayer, A&M beat writer Lori Dann, and high school/general assignments writers Milenko Martinovich, Angel Verdejo and Trae Thompson. Also, two designers and a high school agate editor.

 

This sounds cut-and-pasted from the ads that Examiner.com puts out everywhere. And that ain't good.

 

Earlier posts indicated two copy editors would also be laid off, for a total of 11 positions. There are only 10 listed here. Is this no longer the case?

And yes, Gary West and Jan Hubbard came over from Dallas after layoffs there. They get the double whammy. Milenko Martinovich was part-time in Dallas, left for a full-time gig in FW.