Thursday, August 28, 2008
News / News Bites Deliverance
Posted by Michael Miner on Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:38 AM
What just happened at the Sun-Times? Did Stalin finally die, or something?
The plucky tabloid put on quite a show of speaking truth to power Thursday, once power had left the building. The only thing missing from its bye-bye Mariotti package is a picture of the pistol Jay Mariotti must have held to the head of the publisher two months ago, the last time the paper sweetened his contract.
Headline: "The self-proclaimed tough-guy columnist never faced his targets, and that's the main reason he was considered a coward in clubhouses."
Headline: "Welcome Back, Pete! Sports fan Pete Gaines had enough of Jay Mariotti and quit the reading the paper. When he heard Mariotti was gone, he quickly came back. You can, too."
Jocks despised him. Readers despised him. His colleagues despised him. But whenever he said "Pay me more or I quit" the paper whipped out its wallet. Go figure.
The way to say good riddance is with a shrug. The Sun-Times's celebration makes it look silly.
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The Sun-Times degraded itself in this juvenile display of Mariotti bashing.
Always hated his clearly contrarian articles, and he's a buffoon on ESPN (haven't seen in a while;don't miss it), but I must admit, he was surprisingly good on the radio. More down-to-earth, self-deprecating even. Probably can't get that side out in a word-counted article or quick-take spot on the teevee.
Great take, Michael! The Sun-Times still is run by the dummies who enabled Mariotti right up until the end. "We want him, we want him, we want him, we want him ... we don't want him." Then they get childish about it, celebrating as if he had a gun to their heads throughout. Too stupid to run a viable media outlet, don't you think?
Whew, thank God this image is still on the internet. I needed it to make fun of this situation. The glee with which the ST threw Mariotti under the bus was bizarre. I actually like most of his work since he started at AOL.
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