The catastrophic press failure was foreseeable and preventable. The people in charge there know that press is a lemon -- it has failed repeatedly, though never for quite this long of a period. Management knows this and has nevertheless failed to take the proper steps to prevent it, because it made more financial sense to roll the dice. Well, they came up snake eyes.The question now is, What will they do next? Every subscriber and employee of the C-J should be asking that question. It should be put to the publisher in a public manner, and he and his lieutenants should be held accountable if there is another failure. Nothing like this has ever happened at the C-J -- even when employees were gunned down by a madman, even when there was a press explosion and fire at a sister company next door, the C-J managed to publish and be circulated to home subscribers the next day. What happened Sunday is unprecedented and shameful.
[Image: today's paper, which was printed at Gannett's Indianapolis Star. The front page included a note to readers from Publisher Arnie Garson; bigger page view]
Was that explosion and fire also at Standard Gravure? What year?
ReplyDeleteAlso at SG. 1988.
ReplyDeleteJim is ticked! That madman is ahead of his pace.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, Jim; a couple more flipouts, and you can catch up.
The solution here will be more of a push for online only. No bodies will be thrown under a bus. Gannett can't publicly admit mistakes.
ReplyDeleteToday's Courier-Journal included over a page of letters to the editor denouncing the failure to publish on Sunday and Garson's ill-timed article in the Forum section, one of the bits of the paper that actually were delivered that day. One can hope Garson will man up and apologize next Sunday. (The brief apology he gave at the very end of Monday's A1 article was inadequate.) He also might tell readers what specific steps the company is taking to ensure the press works properly from now on. I won't hold my breath.
ReplyDeleteNo don't hold your breath for an apology. Fat boy Garson is just sitting back and collecting a fat undeserved paycheck.
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