"I was guilty of the latter 20-30 years ago."
-- Al Neuharth, writing this morning in his weekly USA Today column on his exhaustive, just-finished ScooterCapade -- a business trip from Florida to his native South Dakota to California. At God-only-knows-what-cost to Freedom Forum, Neuharth's trip yielded:
- Bullet point No. 1: "There still is concern and fear about the depth and length of this depression."
- Bullet point no. 2: "Some of us on the coasts could ease our problems in future bad times if we became a little less ambitious or greedy in good times."
Al-O-Meter nears $29K!
Chairman from 1979 to 1989, Neuharth, now 85, persuaded Gannett's compliant board of directors to hand him a $100,000-a-year lifetime consulting gig in retirement. Here's the year-to-date cost of Neuharth's weekly USA Today columns under that contract: $28,846.
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Uncle Al is a sexist pig, a leech and a dirty old man. He used to look at women who were summoned to the Pumpkin Center for "meetings" and social events like they were raw meat. You had to go, it was required.
ReplyDeleteHe established the med-level tone at the papers, never ambitious or high minded.
He's an embarrassment and he out the "emphasis on net" in Gannett.
I am sorry I worked for him. He's creepy, and now cadaverous. Yuk, he's like a dead body on feet that still work.