C’EST BON Speaking truth to power, a laid-off sports editor at a Gannett newspaper in New Jersey filed his final column for the paper — an indictment of parent company Gannett, owner of five Louisiana newspapers including The Daily Advertiser — and it actually appeared in the paper’s print issue the day after his termination. Sports Editor Frank DiLeo was among more than 45 newsroom employees purged as part of a Gannett consolidation at three New Jersey papers. “For the second time in two years, I am being laid off from my job as sports editor of The Daily Record,” DiLeo writes. “Why? You’ll have to ask Gannett management that question yourself, because I’ve never received anything resembling an explanation. My guess is that we’re all victims of corporate greed...” Suffice it to say DiLeo’s column did not appear in the newspaper’s online edition, but you should check it out on Gannett blog — it’ll break your heart.
PAS BON And now to us, The Independent Weekly. Hopefully not many readers know by now that we have an opening for an account executive, because we’ve been advertising the position badly. For nearly a week — in print, on our website and in the INDsider daily email — we urged applicants to “email resume’s to” our address on Jefferson Street. Ouch! We suspect the poor execution is more typographical than grammatical — a ham-handed substitution of the accent mark over the second e in résumé with a possessive.
COUILLON When Louisiana political columnist John Maginnis last week issued a correction to his LA Politics column indicating that in fact Democrat Nathan Granger leads Republican Jonathan Perry — by 20 points no less — in the state Senate District 26 race, we were curious how loudly the Louisiana Democratic Party would trumpet the news. Granger’s lead is an encouraging development for Dems, given that they have not only taken a drubbing at the polls of late, but high profile Democrats have been defecting to the GOP in droves, most recently Attorney General Buddy Caldwell. It turns out the state Dems aren’t playing a trumpet — they’re blowing a kazoo. There’s no mention of the race or of Granger on the state party’s website, which proudly displays photos on its home page of such prominent elected party officials as Barack Obama (there’s a popular one in the Pelican State), Mary Landrieu, Charlie Melancon (now a lobbyist) and Caldwell (now a Republican). In fairness, the mugs of Melancon and Caldwell were replaced by newly minted Congressman Cedric Richmond about 24 hours later. But with a party apparatus like that, who can blame the Caldwells in the party for jumping ship?
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , February 09, 2011 - 02:37 pm
OMG, There heads Plumpy....and Laf. Native wiz resumes in mano through the door of THEIND, Hide the wimmen and chirin inside and lock the doahs, Walter ! Tut Tut, " We could have danced all night Under the full moon so bright illuminati tu cara with Jefferson Street city lights Yes, we could have danced alright Ciao fans
... written by Cajunhiker , February 09, 2011 - 11:12 pm
How bout a link to Gannett blog.
... written by beheard , February 10, 2011 - 12:16 am
How about Rickey Hardy for the account executive spot?
... written by Gene Broussard , February 11, 2011 - 12:36 am
How about Chris Williams for the slot. He has a lot of experience at "handling" money.
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , February 11, 2011 - 08:35 am
There is a test, that we could give to the Resume`ees, who have applied for the position at the INDY.. "Place a "UNITED WAY, Begging Carton in the room where the resumme`ees will be administered the test, and as each one of the candidates on hand, the candidates being, Williams, Scott, Guillory, Carmouche, Freeman, Gaschassin, and Jodu'nt, (cause he be looking for another job soon) each enter the room and complete the test, Ricky Hardy enters the room, and checks to make sure the Begging Carton is still in the room, untouched. Ater everyone but the last candidate had entered the room and the Begging Carton was still untouched and still in the exact place where it was originally placed, Jodu'nt enters the room and completes the test and comes out of the room. Ricky is nowhere to be found, Walter announces to the resume`ees, that a subsitute judge, the Honorable, D.A. Harson, will inspect the room. Harson enters the room and comes out and looking completely befuddled, says to all of the crowd, " the UNITED WAY Begging Carton is still in the exact place where it was originally placed, it has not been touched. Therefore by the powers invested in me," I declare that we have not found a qualified business executive with the finesse, slick, used car salesman skills, to fill the position at "THE INDEPENDENT ", at that moment Ricky rushes in through the door from outside, wearing a Sherlock Homie's cap and holding an oversize, huge Magnifying Glass, and he sezs, I gots to check dat carton, Ricky walks into the room and comes back out of the room with the UNITED WAY Begging Carton in his hands, and shouts, "Folks we's gots us a new Business Executive foah da Indy, wid the finessess, skills and the slickness of ah used car salesman, what can git the moneys. Folks, looky heah, looky heah, and he turns the Beggin Carton upside down and there is the evidence, " Ricky shows the crowd that the Begging Carton's cardboard bottom has been cutout, and allus the moneys has been removed, " Ricky raises Jodu'nt hand and sezs, I'se happiest to sezs dat Ricky "Sherlocky Homey, done gots his man agin. Congratulations Walter, youse got you ah, " News Business Acount Exzekette, whats gonna git youse da moneys. Harson shouts, " Halleuah, ITS 5:00 O'ClOCK SOMEWHERE " !
... written by just saying , February 11, 2011 - 10:23 am
Granger is democrat in name only. He holds none of the dem party values or ideals. He is a business man who has made money off the backs of his work force that numbers in the thousands. He hold people accountable for what they say and do and does not believe in government handouts. He would put someone back to work before he gave them a handout. This man is not a democrat; he would rather see you working long hours at some job than sitting at home watching tv.
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Tut Tut, " We could have danced all night
Under the full moon so bright
illuminati tu cara with Jefferson Street city lights
Yes, we could have danced alright
Ciao fans