Aspirants to the office of United States Attorney don’t openly campaign for it. That’s unseemly. Protocol dictates that they urge friends to lobby political party leaders on their behalf—governors, senators and representatives on down. The partisan bigwigs then narrow the list of aspiring candidates based on… what precisely? Loyalty? Patronage? Owed favors? We’ll never find […]
Tag: Times-Picayune
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Let’s hope T-P treats readers better than it treated its employees
The Times-Picayune opinion page should razz its ownership for the way it handled plans to cut staff and shrink to a three-days-a-week paper. The inside account of the T-P restructuring story, as reported by Kevin Allman at Gambit, reveals a lack of professionalism among the paper’s new decision-makers: Gambit spoke to more than a dozen […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Squandered Heritage
The news was sometimes buried, but the T-P helped us back on our feet
I saw the headline and thought about the reporters, photographers, editors and staffers at the Times-Picayune and what this means for them. I wondered how they felt reading about their fate in another publication, not their own. Then I began to think about the news we wouldn’t be reading in the refashioned Times-Picayune and what […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
The axe falls: Life without that daily dose of ink on paper
It took 10 hours for The Times-Picayune to run a story about today’s big local news, which the New York Times broke last night: New Orleans will soon be out of a daily newspaper. The awards-winning Times-Picayune, one of the most-read papers in any metropolitan market, announced that it will reduce its delivery and sales […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
The Macedonian candidate … and other tales of guile and folly
1. It’s unfortunate my recent Superman column puzzled so many readers, because I don’t know how to make my warnings any clearer or more dire. Perhaps reading this recent news story might help others comprehend the problem. Apparently, former New Orleanian Bo McCalebb is playing basketball for the national team of … Macedonia. That’s right, […]