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Date Posted: 12:45:25 01/27/05 Thu
Author: No name
Subject: Re: feminist backlash
In reply to: 's message, "feminist backlash" on 09:41:54 01/25/05 Tue

Now come on Allison, you give yourself far, far too much credit. I know of really good, solid women journalists in leadership positions in newsrooms -- and they are by far much more talented, if not dedicated to the craft. I know. I worked for you in the early 1990s. You lied bigtime to lure me from a much larger newsroom with vastly more competent leadership. You did possess some diamonds in the rough. Janoski. Leitchy. I even came to appreciate Schechtmann. Among the reporters and sports and feature writers there was no small talent either--some were pretty damn good, young at the time and with great potential--some are still there. Same goes for Corbett, who had every reason to leave for greener pastures long before he did. It's a wonder that they could stand your wild-eyed ranting and raving for as long as they did. Most disturbing to me, however, was when you failed to back your reporters. I recall that you did so on more than one occasion when I worked there. All too often, when the newsroom leadership failed to identify a problem with a story with obvious potential shortcomings -- and it ran nevertheless -- there seemed to be a hasty rush to judgment with blame laid squarely at the feet of the one who penned the piece. You even did so publicly on at least one occasions, explaining how an inexperienced reporter managed -- almost singlehandly -- to get the story wrong. Mea culpas were not your style -- better to blame someone else. That, my dear old boss, is not leadership, but rather, a failure of leadership. Could it be that many of these errors occurred well after you -- as well as other top newsroom personnel-- had long left the T-L H.Q. on North Main? I recall my first few days on the job in the T-L newsroom, wondering where all the top editors were going at 5 p.m. Was it to some secret off-site post-budget budget meeting?! No, it turns out it was just quittin' time! It still boggles my mind that the bosses at the T-L were the clock-watchers. No, I most assuredly disagree with your self-assessment. You weren't a tough-as-nails female editor, possibly wrongly terminated for being too aggressive with staff because you simply have high standards and expectations. Some of your top-editor colleagues from other newspapers have a far different opinion. I know because some from whom I sought post-T-L work were not at all shy about their assessment of you in conversations with me. And having been under your direction for several years did not enhance my professional experience in their eyes. No, I hope you were given your walking papers for the simple reason that someone at K-R finally recognized that you were only minimally qualified for the role of V.P., editor-in-chief, of a newspaper in a market that deserves much, much better.

As to those who speculate that some sort of plagarism must've been committed by you for you to be shown the door, this scenario is not likely. You are not a plagarist. One can tell right away just from reading any of your truly tepidly dull columns that you couldn't possibly have plagarized this work.

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