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Late-breaking Bulletin: I quit

EVENING BULLETIN editor John Secor stormed out of the paper's Walnut Street office on Thursday after slamming his office keys on the desk of publisher Tom Rice.

Secor, who started in March after founding editor Kevin Williamson resigned, had turned in his resignation last month, but planned to stay until his successor was hired. But he quit Thursday after what he considered a patronizing meeting with Rice.

When we spoke with Secor on Friday we asked him for the top five reasons he quit. He repeated the name "Tom Rice" five times.

He said Rice has no business being near a newspaper, let alone running one....Rice, who became very wealthy working as a stock trader, launched the conservative-leaning paper in November 2004.

....Secor, 39, on Friday was heading back to his home state of Michigan, where he had lived and worked until being hired by the Evening Bulletin last spring.

We have previously reported that Evening Bulletin employees were often paid late. Former columnist John Leonard told us on Friday that in his 10 months at the paper he was paid on time three times.

Leonard also said he was surprised one morning to find that his company cell phone had been turned off and that he was unable to access his work e-mail account. A colleague told him he'd been fired. He had not heard from Rice.

Leonard, who wrote about sports and business, had been with the paper for 10 months and said he had been a close friend of Rice's for 20 years. A former bond trader, Leonard had worked in the business world with Rice.

Hmmmmm......this is getting interesting....

http://www.phillyfuture.org/node/3914

Some creatures should keep to the dark, damp recesses under the rocks...

'Bulletin' Hates Blacks, Quakers, Realtors

http://willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com/archives/2007/05/post_19.html#more

I hope they aren't actually keeping the proceeds of their sales, because they're committing fraud if they are. I checked out the paper; it's a regurgitation, albeit in slightly more sophisticated language, of Republican talking-points.

It should be interesting to watch...

I don't think I could stomach reading it, but reading about it when Rice gets hauled off to jail might be fun...

This is just pitiful drivel...

http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18309846&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6

Like I said before... John Aravosis is a decent enough fellow but at one time he was as Republican and conservative as they come. You don't work for a wingnut like Ted Stevens by accident. It just goes to show that only insane, radical extremists can remain in the current GOP. I understand John's loyal readers wanting to defend him but I don't think Glenn was misinterpreting John's comment. I also understand John's desire to cultivate an entre into the medium. They have him on often TV enough and we are all glad for that, but this is not about John or John's comment. This is about Howie Kurtz.

That article was typical of the pathetic drivel that rag prints.

I'm sure it's gotten better since KD left. :-)

Good Morning, freepazoid! Enjoy your Cheerios. I pissed in them this morning.

You usually do.

whats so bad about violins on television?

Glenn Greenwald writes an article comparing Brit Hume and Keith Olbermann, and the comment section is one big argument about librarians...

-- Cole D'Biers

I'm Cold Porter over at MYDD.

To: thoughtomator

Not to go over old territory, but, yes, we are agreed that more capitalism is the best cure for real poverty. "Poor" people in America are fat and have free schools. All water under the ol' ideological bridge. Not going to find me advocating any kind of socialism or state-sponsored redistributive shenanigans.

That being written, I think the fundamental problem is that we conservatives are becoming more secularized by our electoral successes and we live and act more and more like the kinds of people who produced icky suburban liberalism. Cf. David Brooks, for cryin' out loud. Liberty doesn't just happen because the invisible hand of the market wants it to; the market gets to do its thing because liberty is cultivated, and the cultivation of liberty requires active engagement. The passive, hands-off approach isn't enough. So that's where I'm going. A less insular, less economic, more culturally engaged approach. The left has organized infiltration into the schools, the public bureaucracies, the legal profession, the media (where I work) -- and what does the right have? Talk radio and the insurance industry? I'm trying to articulate a national, cultural approach that will address questions not of how we run the government but of how we live our lives as citizens. I've always taken the 3-Cs approach to how America works -- capitalism, constitutionalism, and Christianity. Organized conservativism is working hard to spread the gospel of the first two, but we tend to get nervous talking about No. 3. So I guess I'm going off on a culture-of-life, faith-of-engagement riff that has been articulated by better men than me, including a certain John Paul II.

4 posted on 08/11/2004 4:42:38 PM PDT by kdwmson (QVAERENDO INVENIETIS)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189745/posts