Why the sudden changes at the Review-Journal
may be a very, very bad thing
By STEVE FRIESS
may be a very, very bad thing
By STEVE FRIESS
The more I think about it, the more I worry.
Like many in Las Vegas, my first reaction to the sudden dismissals Friday of Sherm Frederick as publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Thomas Mitchell as R-J editor was to smile. The two had failed the newspaper and the community in spectacular ways for years, Sherm by becoming an arrogant, obsessive enemy of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Mitchell by being so openly hostile to all things related to the Internet.
But it’s not as simple as that, is it? The actual changes that were made could, in fact, harm Nevada journalism even more than leaving these ineffective, visionless men in their places.
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1 comments:
Wow, that's an interesting take on it. I'm still most disturbed that we've not yet seen a statement of a new direction, or any direction since Bloody Friday.
Perhaps the Walter Howie will come back from the grave and turn it all around.
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