Discussion for article #244300
Anybody see a resemblance between Pataki and Adelson? Maybe not from the same gene pool but maybe a pond!
Think " When the Saints Go Marchinâ in"
Oh, when the heads began to roll
Oh, when the heads began to roll
Who will be in those numbers
When the heads began to roll.
âEarlier in the day, Las Vegas Review-Journal staffer Stephanie Grimes
live-tweeted the meeting, including instructions by Butler â whose
paper is owned by the Review-Journalâs previous owners (which will
continue to manage the Review-Journal under the new ownership) and who
reportedly has been brought in temporarily to help with the transition
â for covering the Adelsonsâ purchase of the paper.â
Maybe itâs just me but this sounds like one paper is going to be managed by another. Or something.
Or it could be our journalism schools are failing us in more ways than we suspected.
nearly hysterical
The sunlight/roach hysteria seems to be flowing from Adelsonâs cryptâŚ
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Expecting to practice honest journalism while being employed by an Adelson-owned media outlet is like expecting to run an honest business thatâs a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Gambino family. Itâs an inherently contradictory mix.
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Yes, my thoughts, too.
Hey Shelly, youâre 82, for chrissakes, think of what good you could do with your $billiions. You could be a living saint â a contender â instead of the bum which you am.
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âŚor the new regime fires journalists who report whatâs going onâŚ
Soon Adelson will leave his journalism pupa state and transform into a hideous gray mothâŚ
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This obscenely wealthy man had the privilege of interviewing (and presumably signing off on) the Republican candidates for president, right? That makes him a public and political figure, and hence a valid target for public discourse including journalism, right?
This is just more evidence, if we needed any, that oligarchy and democracy are incompatible.
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David Butler, executive editor of the Providence Journal. Remember the name.
Another man whoâs soiled his own reputation and diminished the respect of his newspaper by sucking up to Sheldon Adelson. Did Adelson pay him enough to aid in his retirement?
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Hysterical sounds about right when your well-being and job security just found their way into the hands of a lich.
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Butler also told CNN via email that it was âunfortunate that what was billed as a private meeting was widely broadcast,â but said he putting together a proposal for new guidelines for the paper.
âIt is unfortunate that our backroom efforts to pressure our reporters into covering up/down playing our corporate affiliations became public.â
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âHe who controls the newspapers controls the Piggly Wiggly fliers.â ~Cicero
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If you think Adelsonâs public face is scary
Just think of his âPicture in the AtticââŚ
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Sadly, Adelsonâs preferred manner of reading news, tattooed on the back of a house sex slave, canât be economically replicated for a mass audienceâŚ
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I wanna job there! Itâll be a great resume builder for when I apply to The National Enquirer . . .
William Randolf Adelson.
Hearst got his war with Spain, Adelson wants his war with Iran and will buy all the papers he can to get it (and to drop any coverage of his Mobbed-Up Casinos in Macau.)
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30 years ago, when I was a reporter for the house organ of a large nonprofit, we reported on various questionable actions of the nonprofitâs officers. Down came the word from the top, âWeâre all in favor of freedom of the press, but how do we get you to stop printing nasty stories like that?â And we fumed and wished we worked at a real newspaper, where things like that would never happen.
Times have changed.
(And yes, privately we commented âif you donât want us to write nasty stories, stop doing ethically questionable things in your official capacityâ but somehow it seemed impolitic to send that reply up the line.)
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Yea they need to ease up, based on that picture, it looks like life has already been hard enough on him.