Tuesday, September 25, 2007
PD Reporters: Don't Accuse Us of Having Balls
Posted by Pete Kotz on Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 2:26 PM
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One thing is for sure: These two cowardly reporters, hiding behind their anonymity, have no "balls." Don't like what I've said, you invertebrates? There's my name. Here I am.
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Outside of the personnel mentioned, none of these comments are specific to The Plain Dealer. When an entity has new leadership, changes will be made. If you have issues with it or do not like the management style, there are most likely avenues that can be persued to address them. Additionally, singling out one-time incidents as representative of a person's performance or decision-making as a whole is irresponsible and does nothing to prove a case. I sense a lot of whining in the above post and not much in substantial issues that merit discussion.
You keep using that word: ... racist cartoon about Cookie Thomas ... I do not think it means what you think it means: rac·ism (rÄ'sÄz'É™m) n. 1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. 2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
I applaud your use of the adjective "moron" to describe the individual who is responsible for Cleveland.com. It is dead-on accurate.
Oh please, Craig. Give us some credit. "One-time incident" indeed. What management in its right mind takes a well-respected editor who's regularly getting med team stories onto page one and moves him onto the business desk to edit car talk blather? How many reporters you think respected that winning decision? Do you think readers are too stupid to notice that medical coverage tanks now, when before it was brilliant? How many "one-time incident(s)" you want? Because I can keep going. Face it - the PD's management sucks, and now your paper does, too.
Jen, It is interesting you made the assumption that I work at a newspaper in your response to my comment. Outside of my mention of The Plain Dealer in my opening sentence to state that my comments were not specific to the newspaper, no mention was made of my employment, which is not at a newspaper or a media company. My comments were made with respect to companies and businesses in general. As I was taught, a person is not to assume anything for fear of making a mistake. Secondly, I'm just wondering if it would be wiser for you to spend more of your time working to make The Plain Dealer a better newspaper instead of going to another news outlet to air complaints. Best Regards, Craig
As a former Mercury News reporter under the queen of mediocrity, I can report, you are about to spend months or years with the lamest manager you have ever worked for. Goldberg added nothing to the Mercury News and lied at every turn. She's doing the same there. In the PD's story announcing her hire, she claimed to have instituted hires that boosted circulation at the Mercury among women and minorities. Well, circulation went down some 30 percent in her seven years there, so you can do the math. She talked about being the smartest person in the room in a profile. Only if the room had George Bush in it. Her main news interest, besides chunky bits, is shopping for the trappings of the rich: her convertible Mercedes; her $1,000 a night spa treatments; her boring but expensive outfits. She's the George W of news, all style, no content. Her news judgement can be described this way: she responds well to the last call of complaint she got. You will never see her hang with reporters or have a real human interaction. She's too afraid to be unveiled as not as bright as she thinks she is. In her memo leaving the Merc, she thanked Managing Editor David Satterfeld-- an old school drinking kind of journalist who, like anyone who succeeded under her, spent too much time kissing her ass --for "teaching her to be human." She's the only one who thinks she learned the lesson. Much of her management style was a series of personal vendettas, and moving up writers who had flash and no substance. She promoted a music writer who spelled notable acts Beetles and Bob Dillon in a Grammy story, and didn't have a clue who they were, but could crank out plenty of chunky bits. Just seeing that phrase sends a chill down my spine... She will do what she did here: try to make the paper appeal to people who don't read with lots of pictures and graphics and idiotic drawings, and no real substance. Then she'll hide in her office and bad talk everyone behind their backs, while anything with real personality, information, risk, and style, gets sanitized through her prudish Victorian lense. Guys, you better stay anonymous. She'll be relentless in her revenge if she knows who you are.
Among Susie's other great moves in san jose: When she married a guy with a kid, she decided that families were more important than entertainment, so buried the Wednesday entertainment section behind a new family section. OF course in the country's fourth biggest entertainment market, where the San Francisco Chronicle covers entertainment hugely, and has twice the circulation, this wasn't the brightest move. She followed that failure with a great idea for saving money: getting rid of the local section and combining it with the A section. Reader complaints fixed both these errors. In another business, the manager who came up with this crap would have been fired. Instead, Susie runs off to Cleveland, where rumor has it, she's hoping to leverage her editorship into running one of the company's New York fashion mags. That is if the Peter Principle doesn't catch up to her and have her running away with her tail between her legs.
I guess it takes balls for McIntyre to write today's corporate kiss-up piece that puts MBNA's feelings ahead of free speech. How about exposing the lender's role in the predatory lending crisis, Mike?
"She talked about being the smartest person in the room in a profile. Only if the room had George Bush in it. Her main news interest, besides chunky bits, is shopping for the trappings of the rich: her convertible Mercedes; her $1,000 a night spa treatments; her boring but expensive outfits." boring but expensive? you have to dress conservative in this business--it's not fashion industry. Unless you mean just like lots of ann taylor suits, etc. I wonder if her political leanings, whatever they are, will affect the paper as well. I've noticed more errors in the PD than there were 10 years ago. Times have changed. Let's leave it at that.
I LOVE this stuff ! The original piece by the "two reporters" was a tremendous whine-fest, but then along came all those juicy tidbits from disgruntled Mercury News people. Here's hoping there's more ripe back-and-forth on the subject. Egads ... talk about about fish wives !
It would be great to hear what former managing editor Tom O'Hara has to say about his brief time working with Susie.
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