The long-time policy of Plain Dealer ownership to never lay off anyone in PD management was blown to bits on Thursday, April 8, at approximately 11 a.m. The hammer came down in the PD conference room known as the “fish bowl” as a few dozen non-union and managerial employees were handed envelopes containing buyout offers. [...]
Only the Plain Dealer could be handed such a journalist prize as a sitting judge ordering one of their reporters arrested and still come out looking like a chump. All they had to do was cry, injustice! Instead, the paper is left looking sullied again. The closest thing I can compare this [...]
Last month, the Independent published a story [Payroll & Politics] about the rampant patronage suffocating the office of Cuyahoga County’s Prosecutor, a story the Plain Dealer had, but declined to publish. The article revealed that Bill Mason employed 49 Democratic committee members and political allies, at salaries over $100,000. It also revealed the [...]
Front page report in the PD today, confirming The Independent’s assertion that Bill Mason was Tom Regas’ wingman the night he got busted for drunk driving. That’s how it’s done! But it ain’t over yet. Serious questions remain! Who instructed Regas to refuse the breathalizer? Why did Seven Hill police try to cover this up? [...]
Something funny is going on inside the offices of the Plain Dealer. Seems someone high up scrubbed allegations of cronyism from an online version of a new Bill Mason article. What the eff is going on in there? Someone’s head should roll. Tim Russo and Plunderbund have the full story.
Bill Mason is a bully. He’s that guy in High School who weaseled his way into the popular crowd, not because he was the star quarterback or because he was ruggedly handsome, but because he washed the popular kids’ cars and so was allowed to tag along. At the top, but undeserving, if you [...]
It’s hard being Terry Egger, Plain Dealer publisher, when two of your top columnists, Phillip Morris, resident black dude, and John Petkovic, resident rocker, currently on furlough…er…..”vacation” as he put it, spend a Wednesday night fellating you over beers at the Bier Markt on W. 25thin in order to keep their jobs. Tough work. [...]
Good Old Boys Win in Portage County If you read the Plain Dealer, your opinion of Portage County Muni Judge John Plough is of a rogue man who wages personal wars against prosecutors and destroys records before the public can see them. Charges such as these led to a hearing in front of the Ohio [...]
