Newsday Whacks Everyone

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

100 layoffs including *all* sports columnists -- they say 3 positions, meaning print people. I think that means Johnette Howard, Ken Davidoff (national baseball maybe?) and... could it be...

Wally Matthews?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kuh, wow.

[Guest Kong76]

All these layoffs and unemployment announcements right around the holidays
is really quite deflating.

So they're gonna have a sports section with no columnists?

[Guest Edgy DC]

No offense to the victims, but there have been worse ideas. I assume opinion pieces will continue to come from the beat writers.

What hap'd to Shaun Powell?

[Gwreck]

This article (from Newsday) says that they are laying off three sports columnists[/url:2xiyol5c], but not "all."

According to http://www.newsday.com/sports/columnists/ , these are their sports columnists:

Barbara Barker
Jim Baumbach
Neil Best
Erik Boland
Roderick Boone
Ken Davidoff
Bob Glauber
Mark Herrmann
Bob Herzog
Johnette Howard
John Jeansonne
Greg Logan
Wallace Matthews
Steven Marcus
Shaun Powell
Anthony Rieber
Tom Rock
Gregg Sarra
Tom Schlichter
Arthur Staple
Steve Zipay

[Frayed Knot]

An ad in today's paper talks up that their entire baseball crew: Lennon (Met beat writer), O'Brien (Yanx) and Davidoff (league-wide) will all be reporting from the winter meetings.




P.S. Some of the vets around here will remember the calls from various Met fans a bunch of years back just praying that Cablevision would buy the team.
Cablevision is the new owners of Newsday.

[G-Fafif]

The Pest (as opposed to the Snooze) reports Johnette Howard, Shaun Powell and Ken Davidoff are the columnists in question, and that Davidoff may return at a lower rate of pay. I'm not a fan of any of the above (Davidoff, in particular, strikes me as a Yankee hack) but I hate to see this sort of thing happen for economic reasons.

Worth noting that the Pest story misspelled Powell's first name.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

What do we have to do get Wally whacked?

[Guest Edgy DC]

That'll teach Powell to be sober and thoughtful. Damn.

[G-Fafif]

Davidoff's Sunday column runs as usual and he is still hyped as covering the winter meetings. Perhaps they are reconstructing his arrangement. Perhaps the Pest is not necessarily right.

[Guest themetfairy]

Johnette Howard wrote one of my favorite columns ever on the topic of A-Rod and his supposed demands (such as the tent, etc.). The concept of being catered to by six personal trainers named Sven who would bring double lattes on demand is still bantered around by some of my friends.

I hope another local paper picks her up.

[Frayed Knot]

Meanwhile, it doesn't seem like the NYTimes has ever replaced Murray Chass's long-running Sunday baseball cloumn.
Not that they've stopped covering baseball, but his league-wide column was always the one island of baseball refuge I could climb onto each Sunday no matter how deep in the winter or how thick the Super Bowl hype.
Now, not only is it not there but there doesn't seem to be a replacement either.

[Guest Number 6]

Hopefully they replace it with something less grouchy and tiresome.

[dgwphotography]

="Frayed Knot":1qpdh00m]Meanwhile, it doesn't seem like the NYTimes has ever replaced Murray Chass's long-running Sunday baseball cloumn. Not that they've stopped covering baseball, but his league-wide column was always the one island of baseball refuge I could climb onto each Sunday no matter how deep in the winter or how thick the Super Bowl hype. Now, not only is it not there but there doesn't seem to be a replacement either.[/quote:1qpdh00m] Murray still writes a regular column here[/url:1qpdh00m]

Frayed Knot Dec 07 2008 02:04 PM

Yeah, I knew Chass was still working. It just suxx that the Times doesn't think it's important to run a weekly baseball column in their Sunday edition since they parted ways w/Chass.

G-Fafif Dec 07 2008 08:01 PM

Jack Curry has filled Chass' role, but now that you mention it, the weekly column doesn't seem to be a staple.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, I knew Chass was still working. It just suxx that the Times doesn't think it's important to run a weekly baseball column in their Sunday edition since they parted ways w/Chass.

[G-Fafif]

Jack Curry has filled Chass' role, but now that you mention it, the weekly column doesn't seem to be a staple.