Maybe We Should Dig up the Graves of Their Dead
Relatives to See What They Look Like….
The
two winners of the “Hey Abbott Award” for this week are Mike Fancher, the
executive editor of the Seattle Times, and his run-for-my-lunch photo editor,
Barry Fitzsimmons.
Actually,
we are going to concentrate on Fancher because Fitzsimmons is one of those
middle level types who wouldn’t fart without the permission of his boss.
Fancher
in his newspaper’s pages explains why his bird cage liner ran the picture of
the coffins of the American soldiers. He
is trying to con his readers into believing that the only reason he ordered Fitzsimmons
to run the picture, and the only reason he turned over the reproduction rights (for
sale) to a stock photo house hundreds of miles away from his office, is because
it was a message that should get out.
The
name of the stock photo house is Zuma Press. If you hear that they are in your
neighborhood, you better pull down the shades on your windows.
Fancher put the photo on the front page of The
Seattle Times so that he could sell newspapers.
He knew there are enough sleaze bags in
If
Fancher had any decency, he would not have made
Fitzsimmons purchase the picture, which by the by, was gotten illegally. The bad taste of publishing the picture is
overshadowed by Fancher’s motives and his apparently successful attempt to
bullshit the
And
finally, at the bottom of his column, Fancher makes note of the fact that there
will be a two day workshop for journalists sponsored by The Seattle Times and
the Poynter Institute (a journalistic cabal).
The
price Fancher is getting is $85 for journalists and $75 for students. That shows his lack of concern for young
people who want to be journalists. That
isn’t a very big cost reduction.
If
he could, at the Seminar, he would have sold Seattle Times tee shirts, Seattle
Times costume jewelry, the Seattle Times game board, and last but not least autographed
photos of his four eyed bearded face.
Fancher
is a punk who makes money on dead American soldiers.