Tribune Co. 'Chief Innovation Officer' Delivers More Laugh Lines

What a complete idiot.

 

How do you know what Columbo was wearing under that rumpled overcoat?

 

This shit would be hilarious if it wasn't so goddamn sad.

 

We got a new VP, a sales guy from another, non-editorial division. First project, he gets us together to revamp the website. Someone asks him how he wants it to look in the browser.

"What's a browser?" he asks.

Later, in a multimedia meeting, we're discussing how best to support regular video updates with our limited staff.

"We'll get an intern to work for free, send him downtown to shoot something, and throw it up on the web. Then, we'll monetize it."

Hard as you wish, you can't make this stuff up.

 

Thanks for sharing goldmouth. This free stuff bothers me. It is just wrong. And I know many of us are hypocrits, part of the problem in working more than 40 hours for free as well. This business needs to be blown up and started over.

 

And the VP thinks it's perfectly acceptable....wow

 

Just wait till we get to the point where one publisher is talking to another publisher over cocktails at the local country club:

Pub. #1: ``Wait. You PAY your writers?''

Pub. #2: ``Well, yeah.''

Pub. #1: "You PAY your writers HOW MUCH? Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!''

Pub. #2 (thought balloon): Gotta get me more of them citizen journalists.

 

I'm watching the Reds on WGN tonight, and in the middle of the 10th they run some fluff filler house spot called Sky Dives, basically pimping some bar in Cincinnati. And who else is narrating but the hero of our thread?

http://www.wgnamerica.com/pages/sky_dives

Good thing Tribune didn't skimp on hiring this guy. Otherwise they might be in trouble.

 

Man... I was hoping that this thread being dredged up meant he had contracted something virulent and painful (to himself, not everyone else).

 

Hey, the guy can't be blamed for taking a grotesque amount of money to serve as Sam's cabana boy . . . though he was (and remains) one of the most mock-able folks in the business, as things currently stand . . .

 

I saw that too over the bar of the steakhouse I was eating dinner at.

Sound was off, but he was certainly recognizable.

 

On again, repeatedly, during Cubs-Reds xtra-inning affair.

What a genius! What a brainstorm! Now all I have to do is start typing in all caps and misspell a few words, and I'd have a Lee Abrams memo ready to post!