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>Okay, you've been trying to downplay his influence. >What say you quit generalizing and provide CONCRETE >EXAMPLES for the class? > >>You're right, he is a one-man freak show. >> >>But back to the point of the original poster, >>extramarital affairs and a "welcome home, Beauregard" >>sign have nothing to do with his ownership of a >>newspaper or the quality of the people working for it. >> >>Obviously, sending a reporter into the Allegheny >>National Forest looking for Russians, on the >>otherhand, does. >> >>So sure you can go on and on with examples of super >>duper bizarre antics, but how much of what you can >>testify to actually relates to the Tribune-Review news >>product and its employees compromising their >integrity? >> >>My agrument isn't that Scaife isn't weird, it's that >>his direct influence on the news product is sometimes >>dramatically overstated just to make Trib employees >>look like incompetent fools who've compromised every >>moral thought they ever had. >> >>And you have these seventh hand stories about Scaife >>mandating that this story and that photo can't run on >>A1, and this reporter has to go into the ANF looking >>for paratroopers, etc. Do I think there is some truth >>to some of them? Yes. But maybe, just maybe, some of >>them are nothing but tall tales or extreme >>exaggerations, right? >> >> >>>I would say that Scaife's antics are super duper >>>bizarre and would be difficult to understate. Like >the >>>time during their continuing divorce battle, Scaife >>>had his wife's dog, Beauregard, stolen out of the her >>>back yard and then erected a sign in his front yard a >>>block away that read "Welcome home, Beauregard", to >>>taunt her. Or the time he had a reporter looking for >>>Russian soldiers in the Allegheny National Forest. >>>Should I go on. I can, endlessly! >>> >>>>Yeah...like talking off your clothes and barking at >>>>the moon, or doing the same thing in my living room. >>>> >>>>One is bizarre. One is super duper bizarre. There >are >>>>levels. Quit reading the dictionary, that's boring. >>>> >>>>>"Scaife's bizarre antics (while bizarre) are >>>>>tremendously >>>>>overstated" >>>>> >>>>>bizarre - conspicuously or grossly unconventional >or >>>>>unusual >>>>> >>>>>overstated - represented as greater than is true or >>>>>reasonable >>>>> >>>>>Hmmm, can bizarre be overstated? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>This post is so full of over-the-top bs and gummed >>>up >>>>>>by the bizarre 'wear sunscreen' crap that it >almost >>>>>>shouldn't be taken seriously. Almost. After all, >>>it's >>>>>>April Fool's Day. >>>>>> >>>>>>I'm a former Trib staff writer and left for >greener >>>>>>pastures. In this post and many others, Scaife's >>>>>>bizarre antics (while bizarre) are tremendously >>>>>>overstated and the shame really is on the dolt who >>>>>>wrote this. >>>>>> >>>>>>There was, is and will continue to be good >>>>journalists >>>>>>writing at the Trib (frequently scooping the hell >>>out >>>>>>of the PG). Examples? Did you happen to read their >>>>>>organ transplant coverage? Remind me again what is >>>>the >>>>>>last really great series the PG ran. >>>>>> >>>>>>Scaife ain't the first lunatic with an agenda to >>own >>>>a >>>>>>newspaper, and he won't be the last. So their >>>>>>editorial pages may make them laughingstocks more >>>>than >>>>>>occasionally. >>>>>> >>>>>>Sometimes those antics do have a sad impact on >news >>>>>>judgment, but not nearly like has been described >>>>here. >>>>>>Does it influence what story or photos makes it to >>>>>>page 1 sometimes? Yeah. I'm sure that's only >>>happened >>>>>>at the Trib. >>>>>> >>>>>>And what the hell did Dave Copeland and the rest >of >>>>us >>>>>>morally upright folks who chose to leave find out >>>>>>about REAL LIFE, that getting a book published and >>>>>>getting a book published that sells are two >>>>strikingly >>>>>>different things? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>This was initially going to be a comment in reply >>>to >>>>>>>the post: >>>>>>>Top Ten Reasons Scaife Loves the Clintons -- D. >>>>>>>Letterman >>>>>>>But after reading the 2 references below, I got >so >>>>>>>pissed off that I felt it necessary to write >>>another >>>>>>>post. <a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>>>>>>href="http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ >s >>_ >>>5 >>>>5 >>>>>9 >>>>>>6 >>>>>>>59.html">http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtr >i >>b >>>/ >>>>s >>>>>_ >>>>>>5 >>>>>>>59659.html</a> >>>>>>><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>>>>>>href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburght >r >>i >>>b >>>>/ >>>>>o >>>>>>p >>>>>>>inion/columnists/whispers/s_559713.html">http://w >w >>w >>>. >>>>p >>>>>i >>>>>>t >>>>>>>tsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnis >t >>s >>>/ >>>>w >>>>>h >>>>>>i >>>>>>>spers/s_559713.html</a> >>>>>>>I worked at the Trib but left in disgust a couple >>>of >>>>>>>years ago, although due to the necessary >>withdrawal >>>>>>>and purging process, it seems like yesterday. >>>>>>>So this is a note to the Tribbers. It is by >>>>>>>coincidence that it reads like 'Wear Sunscreen', >>>>>>>written by Mary Schmich, a columnist for the >>>Chicago >>>>>>>Tribune and wrongly attributed to Kurt Vonnegut. >>>>>>>There is life outside of the Trib. Real LIFE! Ask >>>>>some >>>>>>>of those who have moved on such as Dave Copeland, >>>or >>>>>>>the anonynous fellow who in reaction to this: >>>>>(from)-- >>>>>>><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>>>>>>href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.as >p >>x >>>? >>>>o >>>>>i >>>>>>d >>>>>>>=10840">http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default. >a >>s >>>p >>>>x >>>>>? >>>>>>o >>>>>>>id=10840</a> >>>>>>>"In the final days of the 2000 presidential >>>>campaign, >>>>>>>Pittsburgh Tribune-Review publisher Richard >Mellon >>>>>>>Scaife, a longtime conservative activist, ordered >>>>all >>>>>>>photographs and prominent mentions of Democratic >>>>>>>presidential candidate Al Gore removed from the >>>>front >>>>>>>page of the paper. As a result, the paper’s >>>>>>>pre-election Sunday edition had a front page >>>>>featuring >>>>>>>George W. Bush in every campaign-related headline >>>>and >>>>>>>photograph. A story about a Gore rally held in >>>>>>>Pittsburgh, originally slated to run alongside a >>>>Bush >>>>>>>piece on the front page, was moved to the inside >>of >>>>>>>the paper. According to an account in the >>>Pittsburgh >>>>>>>Post-Gazette. Tribune-Review managing editor >>Robert >>>>>>>Fryer ‘tried to dissuade Scaife but was >>>overruled.’" >>>>>>>-Did this: >>>>>>>"One of Scaife's reporters was so pissed he broke >>>it >>>>>>>to the competition. When Gore was campaigning in >>>>>>>Pittsburgh against Bush and the Trib put his >photo >>>>on >>>>>>>the front page, Scaife called and reamed them out >>>>and >>>>>>>told them in no uncertain terms that only Bush >>>>>>>pictures were to be on the front page of his >>>>>>>newspaper." >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Those, my Trib friends, are real journalists. >>Those >>>>>>>left behind, YOU, are just the same as Tammy Sue >>>>>>>Vasco. She, of Walt's Motel fame. >>>>>>>You are engaged in the same profession as Tammy >>>>Sue. >>>>>>>Make no mistake. Morally and ethically, you do >the >>>>>>>same bidding. Scaife's bidding. >>>>>>>Sing. >>>>>>>Accept certain inalienable truths: >>>>>>>Politicians and newspapermen will philander. >>>>>>>You, too, will get old. >>>>>>>And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you >>>>>>>were young, politicians and newspapermen were >>>noble. >>>>>>>And then you will remember. It was you who >allowed >>>>>>>this to happen. >>>>>>>Floss. >>>>>>>Don't expect anyone else to support you. >>Especially >>>>>>>Scaife. Stick your finger into the winds blowing >>on >>>>>>>Martindale St. >>>>>>>Holy shit, one day it's Bush, next day it's >>>>Hillary. >>>>>>>Dance. >>>>>>>Don't try to figure it out. With Scaife no real >>>>logic >>>>>>>applies. Only one thing is important and remember >>>>>>>this, it is your integrity that is at stake. >>>>>>>Hillary speaks civilly to Scaife and he is >>>>>immediately >>>>>>>smitten, abandoning years of hated? Or could it >be >>>a >>>>>>>simple childish reaction since it has become >known >>>>>>>that his ex-wife supports Obama. >>>>>>>Stretch. >>>>>>>You have become Scaife's enablers. I do not wish >>to >>>>>>>call names. My only wish is to have you consider >>>>what >>>>>>>I am trying to say so that you may look outside >of >>>>>>>your box and perhaps realize that you have some >>>hard >>>>>>>questioning to do of yourselves. Wake up and save >>>>>>>yourselves. >>>>>>>As others have boldly said before me, it is time >>to >>>>>>>jump ship. >>>>>>>Get plenty of calcium. >>>>>>>Scoff and laugh at me but the truth remains, >>Scaife >>>>>is >>>>>>>a hollow child without real conviction. He is >>>driven >>>>>>>by revenge apparently due to deep seated >childhood >>>>>>>trauma because of his cold and sarcastic, >>alcoholic >>>>>>>mother, Sarah. >>>>>>>Or maybe: >>>>>>><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>>>>>>href="http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php >? >>s >>>h >>>>o >>>>>w >>>>>>t >>>>>>>opic=11403">http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/ind >e >>x >>>. >>>>p >>>>>h >>>>>>p >>>>>>>?showtopic=11403</a> >>>>>>>Read post 2 on this site. Scary! >>>>>>>Travel. >>>>>>>You are part of Scaife's insane world. Without >his >>>>>>>dependable minions, YOU, he would not be able to >>>>>>>function as he does. >>>>>>>You can NOT consider yourselves to be journalists >>>>and >>>>>>>be part of Scaife's lunacy. >>>>>>>Scream all you want and beat the hell out of me >>but >>>>>at >>>>>>>the same time, look into your soul and decide >what >>>>>how >>>>>>>you wish others to see and judge you and how you >>>>>judge >>>>>>>yourselves. >>>>>>>Don't mess too much with your hair. >>>>>>>I sickens me to see my ex-fellow journalists at >>the >>>>>>>Trib smoozing and a--kissing anything Scaife >comes >>>>up >>>>>>>with. >>>>>>>I was going to mention those that I am >>particularly >>>>>>>sickened with but you know the cast of >characters, >>>>>>>from Frank Craig on down to the wanna-be >phototech >>>>>who >>>>>>>would sell his soul to gain recognition from >>>Scaife. >>>>>>>Research Scaife's life. Lot's of stuff on the >WWW. >>>>>>>Get out while you still have a soul. >>>>>>>But trust me on the sunscreen.

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