Regarding our growing list of nominees to replace just-retired USA Today Publisher Craig Moon, Anonymous@9:35 p.m. writes:
I don't know why my choice for the new USAT pub is being ignored. The candidate is no one. The vacant post will not be filled anytime soon. Just as the post of USAT editor has not been filled, so the pub seat will be left empty.
Why do I feel this way? Look at the money they save by leaving the seat vacant. They have all these bodies in corporate doing nothing who can oversee USAT, and make the necessary decisions. We have vice presidents who are doing absolutely nothing that could be cashiered into the task. Perhaps a couple of years from now if the economy recovers in GCI's favor, there will be an opportunity again to gold-plate USAT with an editor and a publisher.
But those days are far off, and not until this economy pulls out of the tailspin.
My choice: no one.
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Great choice. No one to blame. No one to watch for when meetings are held in the front office. No one to bitch about who last made the coffee. No one to answer angry phone calls from advertisers. No one to frighten the kids with, or to blame when the wife complains you aren't making enough money. No one to watch leaving the office early with his golf clubs. No one to listen to in meaningless and meandering monthly meetings. Hey: no must-come meetings!!!! No one to hate or complain about.
ReplyDeleteI think they should just print off this blog everyday, plaster the USA Today mast over it and sell it. Jim will be editor and publisher, those sons of bitches have something interesting to read again out.
ReplyDeleteIf they pay double they get the posts removed by administrator by subscription email.
Besides an empty chair is much more useful than an overpaid windbag ruining its leather.
I elect Sherman Bodner of Bing Ithaca and Elmira. This class act has had these three papers on auto-pilot right into a mountain for 8 months now.
ReplyDeleteNo wondering what this whiz could do with the Titanic!
The fact that the editor's and publisher's job remain vacant, and nothing has changed in the operation of USAT, is proof that the folks who were in those jobs were fairly useless. Look, this is a sinking ship anyway. So why not save the money and keep the positions vacant? The ship will still sink, but perhaps a bit more slowly. Maybe he next round of layoffs can be avoided for another quarter. Let the current crop of lost managers run the place with their parochial ways and idiotic decisions and constant spinning. A couple departments are being run like this is summer camp for 12-year-olds. Some managers are more worried about being liked than making sound choices. I frankly don't think some managers at USAT, particularly in one newsroom department (we all know which department that is), have the intellectual ability to supervise anything. Perhaps they have talents, but they are not in running the show. But at least these managers don't make what a publisher or editor would.
ReplyDeleteUnless Gannett is going to bring in someone to clear out these awful supervisors and clean up the lazy asses who exist under them, I vote for leaving the two top jobs empty.
Oh, and don't you know ALL of corporate love DARK TIME.
ReplyDeleteLeaving positions vacant have helped struggling editors and publishers make budget, period after period ...
9:54 yup and they get their bonuses for it, and a shiny new ring. While those of us left get ulcers.
ReplyDeleteJust think of it as an extended furlough.
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