tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498373244971935632.post7966399221577690760..comments2008-07-14T21:33:42.217-08:00InkStainedRetchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01440436560152599380noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498373244971935632.post-35318175010922431242008-07-14T09:29:00.000-08:002008-07-14T09:29:00.000-08:00Smoked Tuna anyone?Ronnie Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400927496123929809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498373244971935632.post-10997162119309222382008-07-13T21:20:00.000-08:002008-07-13T21:20:00.000-08:00Big Tuna:<BR/><BR/>Cocksmoker. Seriously. I am so fucking tired of you and the other sniveling shits out there who think it's "hilarious" and "witty" to be sanctimonious in condemning people you know nothing about, and callous and dismissive toward the people who are about to be fired. Fuck you, Mr. High-and-Mighty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498373244971935632.post-68149827472311718032008-07-13T14:33:00.000-08:002008-07-13T14:33:00.000-08:00The Tribun has sadly been taken over by clueless egomaniacs. I would have preferred Scientologists or Buffett...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498373244971935632.post-897770258455694242008-07-12T11:41:00.000-08:002008-07-12T11:41:00.000-08:00Hey Big Tuna,<BR/>Here's a solution. SELL SOME ADS!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498373244971935632.post-8164177063410083642008-07-12T10:33:00.000-08:002008-07-12T10:33:00.000-08:00Hey Lee (Big Tuna),<BR/>why don't get off the internet and start coming up with ways to sell ads on the websites, where more readers than EVER before are downloading are stories. Listen moron: readership of newspaper articles is up. You (the innovatation editor) need to come up with ways to SELL ADS and make money off those new readers. Get a life and get a job and quit writing your crazy-ass memos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498373244971935632.post-37486433266602721702008-07-12T09:19:00.000-08:002008-07-12T09:19:00.000-08:00Alright Big Tuna, I'll bite.<BR/><BR/>First of all, not everyone who works at the Times is a print journalist, but I guess that wouldn't occur to you in your haste to judge. Lee's memos are indefensible, and yes, they are idiotic.<BR/><BR/>Secondly, how exactly is it that you know print journalists haven't offered up any solutions? Do you think all the submissions so Zell's idea box came from what is now called "support staff?" Many people felt hope when Zell took over, hope that things would be different, and many ideas were generated and turned over to the Trib people. Now some of the same people who came up with the ideas will get canned in what is shaping up to be the most brutal round of cuts yet.<BR/><BR/>Lastly, thanks for ridiculing those who are about to lose their jobs with your little "joke" about crying over stock tables. That really illustrates what kind of a person YOU are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498373244971935632.post-22154782037559535652008-07-11T18:56:00.000-08:002008-07-11T18:56:00.000-08:00Big Tuna,<BR/><BR/>this is the problem: the print newsrooms of Tribune are the ONLY parts of this god-forsaken company that get the job done. Our business leaders did not. People like Dennis FitzSimons and the previous crowd -- who were lucky to get golden parachutes after managing us into obscurity -- failed us miserably.<BR/><BR/>And now you blame the victims. I see your game.<BR/><BR/>The journalism did not fail this company. The suits did, with their stale ideas of synergy. We are suffering for their corporate hubris and their rapacious GREED.<BR/><BR/>Have YOU ever worked in a big, fearsome fuckin' newsroom like the LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, Newsday or the Baltimore Sun -- not now, but back in the day? Have you ever seen how quickly and efficiently reporters and editors at these institutions can absolutely surround a story and BEAT it to the ground and trounce the competition? And the buzz around town is: holy shit, did you see that in the Trib today? <BR/><BR/>Do you really think Lee Abrams can really tell me what the fuck a GREAT story is, when I've been working them for years? <BR/><BR/>The truth is: You give journalists the power to come up with solutions, they will. Because we get the job done EVERY FUCKING DAY, on deadline. Every day, Big Tuna. On deadline. Trib journalists get it done.<BR/><BR/>But I shit you not, Big Tuna. Tribune consciously stands in the way of good ideas. We are the absurd "Catch-22", Joseph Heller-esque vision of the journalism world. <BR/><BR/>The people on the business side of this company, at the highest levels, have NOT gotten the job done, Big Tuna. But I can tell you what they have gotten: money. It's been PAY FOR UNDER-PERFORMANCE.<BR/><BR/>They are the ones who deserve to be publicly shamed for their weak-ass game, NOT the thousands of dedicated journalists across this company. They are the ones who have not shown initiative in adapting our business model. <BR/><BR/>They are the ones responsible for our collapse.<BR/><BR/>And then the Zell Junta comes to us for ideas, and they set up their cheeky "Idea Bank." They tell us we own the place -- and then they lay us off after taking all those ideas. Sam Zell has the GALL to condescend to us, to treat us like we need a lesson in balancing our checkbooks.<BR/><BR/>Fuck you, Big Tuna. And fuck you, Sam Zell. <BR/><BR/>Thing is, Zell's no dummie. But Big Tuna, you're a fucking moron. You deserve the journalism the Tribune is gonna be shoveling your way. You know I speak the truth. Spread this missive far and wide.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498373244971935632.post-20940368542914055982008-07-11T09:36:00.000-08:002008-07-11T09:36:00.000-08:00All of these comments are a perfect snapshot of what's wrong with the PRINT mentality....all bitchin' and no solutions!... and "this guy isn't a JOURNALIST?!?!, he must be an idiot"<BR/><BR/>I'm sure when you get laid off in the next year you will cry in your stock tables, book reviews and everything eles newspapers do that no one cares about.Big Tunanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498373244971935632.post-8586533428378570112008-07-11T06:09:00.000-08:002008-07-11T06:09:00.000-08:00According to the definition of plagiarize, it is impossible to "plagiarize" oneself. The meaning of the word is to pass off as one's own the works, words, etc of another.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498373244971935632.post-15321270445668483052008-07-11T03:09:00.000-08:002008-07-11T03:09:00.000-08:00A journalist at a Tribune paper would definitely get fired for recycling their own copy in columns and stories, or taking standard boilerplate language used in long-running stories and dropping it verbatim in fresh copy. No question. In fact, it happened at a certain Tribune paper not too long ago.<BR/><BR/>I suspect that Lee is no longer writing his own copy. Tribune must've created an automated "top 40" rotation for his copy! Pretty soon, we'll be getting the "HITS" of Lee's "think pieces."<BR/><BR/>They'll be calling it "Classic Lee." <BR/><BR/>Crap. I fear I may have just given them an idea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498373244971935632.post-61988381145108452922008-07-10T15:24:00.000-08:002008-07-10T15:24:00.000-08:00Bill Hutton's XM profile:<BR/><BR/>Program Director<BR/>Bill Hutton is the incompetent seat filler behind Lucy - XM 54. Born to a poor sharecropper in the Dust Bowl of the '30s, he learned to fake his own death for insurance money by the time he was 10.<BR/><BR/>Hutton began working in radio as a way to steal records in 1967. By showing no talent whatsoever, he was immediately promoted to general manager and developed such forgetful radio gimmicks as "Thirsty Mondays," "Soiled Gym Socks For Seniors," and "Guess What I Just Swallowed." In 2001, Hutton was given a job at XM as part of a settlement with XM's parent company.<BR/><BR/>Reads like a Tribune press release, dont it.<BR/>Innovation? My ass! His title is as mocking as Zell calling us "partners". This is borderline criminal.<BR/><BR/>http://www.xmradio.com/onxm/channelbio.xmc?ch=54One of Sam's "partnersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498373244971935632.post-34105427355499289142008-07-10T12:59:00.000-08:002008-07-10T12:59:00.000-08:00what you're forgetting, here, is that abrams probably doesn't know what plagiarism is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com