Friday, February 2, 2007

Onion-skinned Blind Item # 2

We got very interesting news today that editors (and reporters) of this daily are planning a mass resignation, disgusted by this editor and the latter's penchant for mangling stories to settle personal scores with selected news sources. As a result, reporters have been at the receiving end from their news sources, and all they can do is to scratch their heads and curse this editor.

That's not all. This editor reportedly starts reviewing stories and pages so late at night, making reporters and editors stay up unnecessarily to wait for the pages to close. To make matters worse, this editor apparently is so indecisive that this editor can't make up her mind about how the stories should read, or how the pages should look. Not that every issue is exactly a magnum OPUS (no pun intended). As a result, this daily has been coming out very late recently. (Not that its few hundred readers noticed.)

When reporters of this daily complain to reporters from another daily where this editor used to work, the latter invariably shake their heads, and marvel at how little has changed with this editor, the editor's personal biases and the editor's working habits.