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The Tribune put Rick Popely’s story on page one last Friday morning, then called him in and fired him later in the day. Which means, he reflects at tellzell.com, “I’ll have another memorable story about life at the Tribune.” Tell Zell is an LA-based site that invites posters to tell the Tribune Company boss “what you really think.” Look for the petition telling Zell that since he’s laying them off by the hundreds, his employees (Zells likes to call them his “partners”) deserve a representative on the board of directors (with another to represent the LA community). The goal is 1,000 names and the petition’s a long way from getting them.
I got an anonymous call Monday from someone who wanted me to know the Tribune layoffs disproportionately victimized minority journalists. The caller had no numbers to back up that knock on the Tribune, but here it is again, made publicly in a column by Richard Prince on the Maynard Institute Web site. “It’s sad because if you look at the list, it’s heavily minority. It looks bad,” reporter Ray Quintanilla told Prince.
