Editor, Read Thyself
Recently we told you that one of the editors at The Tennessean was suspended after Metro vice officers nabbed him in a sting at a hotel. We didn’t name the poor sap, because we figured he had his David Vitter moment and that was enough. Why humiliate the guy any further?
Turns out, there's not much we could have done to make this man's return to work any more awkward. Since the editor's arrest, the folks at 1100 Broadway have wondered if he'd return from his suspension. They also have been gossiping like school girls about the unusual circumstances of his moment of shame.
Just a few weeks before detectives placed an Internet ad to lure the editor and seven other Johns to a Murfreesboro Road hotel, The Tennessean ran a story about how police officers are watching how prostitutes advertise their services on sites like Craigslist.com. Clearly, the editor wasn’t reading his own paper; otherwise he would have avoided the siren call of the come-hither ad he found surfing the web one day.
But, if the newsroom speculation is true, there’s an odd punchline to the story: It was the horny newsman who edited the story about how the police are monitoring the Internet for prostitution.
Sometimes we wonder just how carefully the paper’s editors read their stories before they go to press. Maybe now we know.
We asked Mark Silverman about whether the humiliated editor edited the story that hinted at his fate. He politely declined comment.
Comments
That qualifies for Journalism News of the Weird.
Posted 08/12/2008 at 11:49:51 AMSorry guys but we had to remove a few anonymous comments that pry into the personal life of someone over at The Tennessean. We don't really like to do that--we learn a lot from our lively cast of posters. (Especially, when they tells us why exactly we suck.)
But in this case, we feel a little uncomfortable when someone tears into a guy's home life. If we allow that, then one day we may read on Pith about our own personal failings.
And, speaking for myself here, that may not be all that great.
Posted 08/14/2008 at 11:30:41 AMOkay, you don't have the gumbahs to print the comment, though mine wasn't anonymous. So where is the original story???
Posted 08/15/2008 at 09:29:04 PM