Thursday, April 19, 2012

Waaaaaahhhhhhh!!!

The Clarion-Ledger didn't like the way WLBT reported on the retirement of veteran journalists at the newspaper:

WLBT General Manager Dan Modisett stated

"JACKSON, MS (WLBT) -

In my editorial last week commenting on losing some fine local journalists at the Clarion Ledger I said, " Unfortunately layoffs have claimed some really good local newspaper journalists, like one of my all time favorites Orley Hood and most recently David Hampton, Rick Cleveland and Bobby Cleveland."

I got a call from the Clarion Ledger's new Executive Editor who corrected me. Orley Hood was laid off, but David Hampton, Rick Cleveland, Bobby Cleveland and five others took advantage of the Gannett early retirement program.

I just wanted to set the record straight. I wish all of them the very best
."

By all means, Clarion-Ledger, lets get the record straight. You can call it layoff's, buyouts, early retirement, or whatever your fancy corporate buzzword of the week is but it all means the same thing: you threw your best people out the door. Some got paid, some didn't even get a tin cup and cane. Doesn't matter. You kicked them to the curb. Period. Then there is the fact the publisher didn't even have the guts to write the column explaining the changes and stating what great people they were, how much they will be missed, and other phony sentimental crap. You gave that job instead to some editor who has only been there a few weeks and probably didn't even know the people about whom he was writing. Corporate cowards.

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

BWHAHA The Clarion Ledger trying to "Correct" errors in reporting. That's classic. The CL has fastly become the little brother to the Commercial Appeal.

Anonymous said...

I always like Bobby Cleveland and Orley Hood. While I like Rick Cleveland's articles, his attitude toward the paying customers should have gotten him fired long ago.

Anonymous said...

Rick Cleveland was talented, but was very arrogant towards the public.

I STILL miss Orley.

Kingfish said...

Understand where you come from about Rick but I've been around enough writers, artists, and musicians to know too many of the talented ones suck at people skills. They just think differently and don't always understand that as some do such as Marshall Ramsey.

Ironghost said...

Why did he cave so fast if he knew the truth?

Anonymous said...

Whats with the autoplaying ad and news story on the front page?

Its audio.

Kingfish said...

on my site or the CL?

Anonymous said...

It seems to have stopped. Earlier this morning, as soon as your site loaded, it started playing audio for a Don Evans commercial then followed with what I think was WLBT news.

Kingfish said...

I think it was WJTV's story from the other day.

Anonymous said...

Sorry, I posted the above to soon. Still doing it. I'm using chrome browser. Happens on your main page. Don Evans commercial followed by the Phillip Gunn sidestep interview.

Kingfish said...

I'll change it. Everyone has read it now anyway. Its the browser. Doesn't do it in FF or Opera.

Btw, been playing around with Opera. Pretty good browser.

Kingfish said...

Try it now.

Anonymous said...

On your post about costs, it seems someone should put pressure on our new "progressive" conservative legislative leadership to publish legislative budgets online. Bills are posted online, live debate can be heard online. Why in the hell can't they put documents online that are already in an electronic format??

Anonymous said...

$100 to $1 says the clarion ledger would use the terms layoff if reporting on another organization. The primary role of their "editors" is to further distort what the reporter has already distorted due to incompetency and laziness. And seriously folks, its not like Rick Cleveland is a pulitzer prize winner. He worked for a rag for his entire career.

Anonymous said...

I STILL miss Orley Hood, too. No regrets on seeing David Hampton gone. Never really agreed with him on anything except getting the watered-down Animal Cruelty bill passed.

Shadowfax said...

Say what you will, but, a buyout is NOT a layoff. A layoff probably would have resulted later; however, these people were NOT laid off. Also, the least of differences is the fact that a person who is laid off can draw unemployment for up to a year and a half at approx. $145 a week. Words have meanings.

Anonymous said...

Some of you act like the Clarion Ledger is the only place who has offered buyouts to their employees when it fact many, many companies offer them to reduce their workforce. In fact it happens quite often. Buyouts are usually always limited to people who have the most time and and expertise. Many people take them and leave. Some go to work somewhere else. Others don't. If you think anyone can't be replaced in any organization, they can, and they are every single day.

Finally, Rick Cleveland had a huge following of sports fans who very much respected and appreciated his work. Nothing any of you can say is ever, ever going to change that. He has forgotten more about sports than most of us will ever know. He was asked soon after Michael passed away to consider taking the Exc Director position at the MS Sport Hall of Fame Museum. He left the Clarion Ledger on good terms because he wanted to go and is very, very happy to assume his new position.

Anonymous said...

Hampton left about 28 years too late. They say he's a good guy, but he's pretty much always wrong, told a ton of lies in print and didn't deserve to be read.

Anonymous said...

Some of you act like the Clarion Ledger is the only place who has offered buyouts to their employees when it fact many, many companies offer them to reduce their workforce.

Prove it. Where has anyone here written or alluded that to be the case.

Anonymous said...

i am really sick of this blubbering
blather from rick cleveland! hey rick! just go away!

Shadowfax said...

It seems Mrs. Cleveland only had one portion of gentle-kindness to pass to one of her children and Bobby got it.

Anonymous said...

Rick Cleveland has a huge following of fans who have read and respected his work for many, many years. He was the best of the best when it came to reporting MS sports news and telling it like it was.

I wish Rick the very best as he begins his work as the Executive Director of the MS Sports Hall of Fame. He will do an outstanding job just as Michael did when he was there. I feel comfortable that our museum is in very good hands again.

Kingfish said...

Leonard Bernstein was a complete jerk but I loved to listen to his albums.



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