Friday, September 11, 2009

Kicked Out Of Hell - What's Next

I almost feel a bit silly, even writing this........but I was canned by a small town south Texico newspaper as a blogger, after almost six years of writing for them, and seeing the paper go through a handful of software upgrades, and a transformation from a respected locally published daily, that rivaled the city rags for content, columnists. and generally a good morning read, to a tabloid type publication, with a Myface style blog and comments forum that opened it's pages to an really wide range of daily posters. While for the most part, the folks blogging, though waaaaaay too many, were reasonably benign and actually in a number of cases, very informative and entertaining, there was one or two, who made it their mission in life, to monopolize the bandwidth and basically create in one case at least, a bully pulpit, tolerated, if not feared by the wimp editorial staff, due to it being penned by a boy of color, a token blogger if you will.........whose every word was combative or hate laced, yet in the eyes of the pale ranger editor of questionable credentials, a midwest yes man, who surrounded himself with like types, or struggling interns, who was actually afraid to take steps to limit or criticize the posts of said token blogger. Damn shame actually, because I honestly believe that in the long run, said token blo.......gger, and the aforementioned editor will both be unceremoniously stripped of their respective "duties" and will be looking for a new gig as well......
The Victoria Advocate was once a really good regional daily newspaper. Could be that rather than rcover, it will just go the way of so many other papers.........only at maybe an earlier date than it might have, had the owners not nade the fatal funn.......er, mistake of hiring the breadbasket shyster, "let's draft citizen reporters to do our work for us" bunch that is at the helm of thier hellbound train. No big.........I live in the city.......I have the Chronicle, The Times, the Morning News, and the WaPo all available at the local newsstand. In Vic, they have only the dying Advocate........well, there is a better paper available......for those who'll drive to Port Lavaca to pick one up........

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

shoot -- there went my last reason to check the Advocate online. Bring us a real newspaper next time you're down! Unmoored

Sugar Magnolia said...

The VicAd can go to....well. They can drown in their own fatal funnel as far as I am concerned. They have pulled their last asinine stunt for this gal. Hell, even the Yoakum paper, published once a week, is better than all 7 days of the crapocate put together; at least it still resembles a real (small town) newspaper. FTS!!!

Anonymous said...

Keep writing, friend. You will continue to have your following. As usual I forgot my password to here. Blond moments.

The Loon said...

Ah, well, Mike – their loss more than yours. I'll send you reproving notes if you transgress. How would that be to help the transition?

Anonymous said...

exres sez don't sweat the small stuff.

good luck 2u.

Pilot said...

I always heard it as "don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things"......thanks for the visit. Please share the link.......

Edith Ann said...

It does feel like hell. Getting kicked out three times is hard. :-(

But this is so much better!

Legion said...

The ViCad nazi strikes again, geez.
I don't know what you said to piss em off but I know it was well deserved.

Now I have to read lilj s ramblings all by myself.

I will check in with you Pilot, and Sugar on this site.

I really wonder what the VA is thinking sometimes, lilj has now attracted like minded incoherent posters.

It's madness I tell ya, simply madness. What a way to run a Newsp.... nah I won't even call them that.