Failed Miami Herald Editor Rewarded With McClatchy Promotion
Call it the Peter Principle 2.0.
Instead of just promoting someone to the level of his incompetence, McClatchy Newspapers has actually promoted failed Miami Herald executive editor, Anders Gyllenhaal, beyond the level of his incompetence. Is your humble correspondent being a bit too harsh in his assessment of Anders Gyllenhaal's capabilities? Allow me to enter into the record the judgement in September of the people who actually worked for him at the Herald:
Last week, several Miami Herald editors and reporters wrote a letter to the paper's management asking it to stop focusing on delivering quick news and return to its roots in well-reported investigative journalism. We're not sure if this is the answer. But we are sure of one thing: the quality of the paper has suffered a lot under the leadership of executive editor Anders Gyllenhaal. Perhaps he understands the Internet and its role in new journalism, but he is clearly having a hard time putting a plan into action.
Indeed the letter circulated internally and signed by most of the paper's top news personnel is a clear sign of dysfunction. Why would such a group of bright people -- including a half dozen Pulitzer Prizer winners -- resort to assembling such a diatribe if the paper were working.
...Gyllenhaal worked in Miami back in the '80s, but he spent years away before returning several years ago. He doesn't get the pulse of this city. Moreover, he's aloof and not well liked in the newsroom. He is the wrong guy to run the paper at this time. So listen up McClatchy: It's time to dump Anders.
On the heels of this discontent with Gyllenhaal comes the news that the Miami Herald plunged 7 percent in daily circulation and 10 percent in Sunday circulation for the six month period ending in September. So was Gyllenhaal summarily terminated from working for McClatchy? Nope. In the McClatchy world such incompetence seems to be actually rewarded:
Anders Gyllenhaal has been executive editor of the Miami Herald since 2007 and shepherded the once-great paper through some of its darker times. Though the economy certainly played a heavy role, it's difficult to pinpoint what part of his performance made him deserving of a promotion. Yet the paper's parent company, McClatchy, has named Gyllenhaal the new vice president of news and Washington editor.
And since I know the question that is lingering in your minds, allow me to answer it now. Anders Gyllenhaal is the uncle of actors Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal. It seems their poorest performances couldn't possibly be any worse than the performance that Uncle Anders delivered as the executive editor at the Miami Herald before being given his Peter Principle 2.0 promotion by McClatchy.
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McClatchy is every bit as
Submitted by TE on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 9:33pm.
McClatchy is every bit as much a leftist cesspool as are the New York Times, the Associated (with terrorists) Press, the Washington Post, al Reuters, al Jazeera, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, A-Mess-NBC, et al.
No surprise from McClatchy
Submitted by TexasMom0517 on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 10:26pm.
After the Duke Lacrosse Hoax was exposed, McClatchy PROMOTED Melanie Sill, the editor of the News and Observer, to the editorship of the Sacramento Bee, even though the News and Observer, under her tenure, fanned the flames of the hoax and even published photographs and names of the young men on the lacrosse team.
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Failed Miami Herald Editor
Submitted by batcat on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 10:52pm.
In the military it's called "F**k up and move up".
failed editor
Submitted by porpoiseboy on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 10:59pm.
in business we always call it "promote 'em and make 'em somebody elses problem"
Ecclesiastes 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left
The best social program is a JOB...ronald reagan
Perhaps this is an instance
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 10:53pm.
Perhaps this is an instance like that on the Titanic, after it started sinking, when it was asked, "Okay, which one of you guys want to be promoted to being the new captain?
This Game Won't Go On Forever
Submitted by Tenebrous on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 11:56pm.
I laugh when I read stories like this, because they are part and parcel of the last days of the empire. Remember all the crazy stuff that went down before Rome fell? Caligula making his horse the senator? This is the same kind of stuff, and it can't go on forever; the bigwigs are all gathering together on the highest floor of a burning building, sipping cocktails while the foundation crumbles beneath them.
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As Greg Gutfeld suggests, we
Submitted by big.league.slider on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 12:19am.
As Greg Gutfeld suggests, we need to keep some of these liberal MSM relics around just to remind us of what failure looks like. Better that he's on McClatchy's payroll instead of NPR's or PBS'.
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