Comments on: My rejected Rocky column

By: poppaculture

poppaculture — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:58:29 +0000

great post.

PS – your column’s opening sentence (as it appears here on Jan is missing an “it”

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By: labutard

labutard — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:06:04 +0000

I posted this as a response to Little John Temple’s response:

Salzman wrote an interesting column that I enjoyed reading. Maybe if you’d stop being such a baby, you could run some of these provocative pieces, sell a few more papers and then not be in the situation you are in. Instead, you get threatened that you can’t control the messenger and the message, then you rear up like you usual bully self. Whatever. Your time of being able to bulloze people is about to end. Soon, you will be John Who Nobody. And we will laugh in your face because nobody will want to give YOU a platform for your drivel.

By: loneranger

loneranger — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:00:50 +0000

It is worth noting that Temple is also a vice president of Scripps.

By: jtemplermn

jtemplermn — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:57:56 +0000

John Temple has posted a response to this post on his blog. Here’s then link.

http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/temple/archives/2009/01/response_to_med.html

By: bigmediacommenter

bigmediacommenter — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:41:14 +0000

I’d be interested to know why Temple rejected it.

I thought it was a fair column bringing up a legitimate point of discussion. The JOA is a huge issue Scripps faces in solving the problems affecting the Rocky.

In the absence of the JOA, one would hope to Scripps apply much more creativity to the paper’s future. (One could argue that in the absence of the JOA the Rocky’s future would have ended in 2001.)

By: Rondor

Rondor — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:37:42 +0000

I have to say I admire your decision to post this. Thank you for putting the public interest above your own interests. I also have to say that you do not write bad columns, as you state in the intro. Sorry, that is just not true.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:39:25 +0000

Who knew that Scripps would be so afraid of Obama’s Justice Department intervention that they would rush the closing of the Rocky? It’s sad they can’t find a little cushion in the hundreds of millions of profit they’ve made over on the paper over the years. Thanks for getting the word out.