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Yes We Cannes! The Yacht That Tells a Lacht -- Everything, Actually -- About Copley Newspapers
Comparing Helen Copley to a similarly situated publisher is illustrative: With Katharine Graham in charge and with Ben Bradlee as managing editor, the Post set a new standard for investigative journalism. With the aggressive reporting of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward and the support of Graham, the paper traced the story of the Watergate break-in, which ultimately led to the resignation of Richard M. Nixon as president and earned the paper a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Helen Copley's legacy? She hired Nixon's former mouthpiece, Herb Klein, to head up her papers and devoted a lot of money to fighting labor unions in her company.— June 19, 2008 9:56 a.m.
Yes We Cannes! The Yacht That Tells a Lacht -- Everything, Actually -- About Copley Newspapers
Don, Don ... 30 years with the paper and you apparently never got the picture: in the 1960s Helen Copley was viewed by "La Jolla Society" as a homewrecker and uneducated mid-western boor. It took the cache of certain families (notably the Scripps/McRae/Winner clans) to open a few doors for her. The paper was a vehicle to buy Helen some level of social acceptance: thus, the perpetuation of a "society" column long after they had any relevance. Notice the family name "Winner" here -- as in newsdoll Karin Winner, the ageing La Jolla socialite who nominally is the editor of the UT.— June 12, 2008 2:01 p.m.
Yes We Cannes! The Yacht That Tells a Lacht -- Everything, Actually -- About Copley Newspapers
Interesting aside: Burl Stiff has not been an employee of the UT for a l-o-o-o-ng time. Rather, he's an independent contractor for the "society" column. The fact that the UT even publishes such rot as a "society" column underscores Helen and David's inability to keep up with the times and understand the demongraphics of the city. Having ageing La Jolla socialite Karin Winner at the helm does not help anything. I doubt la Winner could find Lemon Grove or Santee or Clairemont on a map -- they just don't exist in her gilded realm. Sometimes I am surprised she can find her way from her digs in La Jolla to her job in Mission Valley ... bet she gets lost all the time. La Winner's great-grandpappy was Col. Milton A. McRae, co-founder of Scripps-McRae (now Scripps-Howard) and United Press International. I guess being related to someone gives you qualifications.— June 12, 2008 10:12 a.m.
Yes We Cannes! The Yacht That Tells a Lacht -- Everything, Actually -- About Copley Newspapers
You know, Don, if the UT were a well-respected paper and David was known for working himself sick (as opposed to partying himself sick) then it would be a tragedy to watch demographics and technological factors undo it. But this seems more like just desserts. In 1974 Helen froze the paper in amber journalistically and then did not make any plans beyond tossing control of into the lap of her obviously incompetent son. She must have realized during the decades-long period between her asumption of control and her death that David was not and could never be up to the task. What is happening now could have been predicted from 'way off.— June 11, 2008 12:37 p.m.
Yes We Cannes! The Yacht That Tells a Lacht -- Everything, Actually -- About Copley Newspapers
Perhaps "tramp" seems harsh, but I would bet dollars to donuts that the first Mrs. Copley called Helen worse than that.— June 11, 2008 12:27 p.m.
Yes We Cannes! The Yacht That Tells a Lacht -- Everything, Actually -- About Copley Newspapers
Ira and James Copley must be rotating in their graves. It's too bad that when Jim Copley started chasing his secretary around the office he could not foresee what her son would one day turn into. The first Mrs. Copley must laugh her head off that the son of the tramp who wrecked her marriage is now wrecking the paper itself.— June 11, 2008 10:27 a.m.
Ignoring Phony Accounting, Peters Tells NY Times That San Diego's Pension System Is In Good Shape
Don, you mention the steady drumbeat of the UT. But with its declining circulation and credbility, is the paper's opinion even relevant? The UT may now be like the odd guy on the street corner babbling to himself. Few San Diegans pay attention to the noise, and may even take steps to avoid hearing it.— May 26, 2008 6:24 a.m.
Union-Tribune Lays Off Three Who Spearheaded Electronic News, Radio Efforts
By the way, as far back as 2005, most of the senior level management (I Dream of Genie Bellboy, Newsdoll Karin Winner, HR Queen Bobbie Espinosa, AdModel Scott Whitley, HR Lady Ann Radosevich, etc.) were employees of, and got paychecks from, the Copley organization, not the UT.— May 8, 2008 1 p.m.
Union-Tribune Lays Off Three Who Spearheaded Electronic News, Radio Efforts
When SignOn started n the late '90s, they had new and luxurious offices near the stadium. Eventually there came a concern that Jennewein had too much of this own feifdom over there and they moved SignOn into the first-floor offices that had been recently vacated by the laid-off circulation employees. (Jennewein's wife, by the way, put out a Christmas letter during the first year of his tenure. Some UT execs were on her mailing list and were disconcerted by her bragging about how much newsier the site had become under his leadership.) Then came huge arguments about why his breaking news "content producers" were not paid the same as their newsroom counterparts. The same applied to the SignOn sales depatrment ... they were FAR under the print folk. To be fair, no one at the UT knew then, or really could have known, the impact of the internet.— May 8, 2008 12:56 p.m.
Union-Tribune fights unemployment claims
Yes, Don. The UT has used TALX for years for UC. Now here's the thing: the UT would tell TALX whether or not to challenge the claim on a case-by-case basis. For example, in some instances, people who DID quit voluntarily would file and the UT would want to deny the claim. Someone at the UT, most likely Gene Bell, made the call to deny the current crop. The call would not have been made by HR VP Bobbie Espinosa. Too bad you newsies never left the third floor long enough to make contacts in your own origanzation!— April 27, 2008 6:52 a.m.