Oregon Media Insiders

Amen to the joke!
Boy has newsjanitor got this one wrong!
He left out a lot of information. I saw it.
His time here was a very interesting situation to watch.
Huston was pissed when he got back from the airport Thursday cause the ND and Desk sent him to the airport to cover Laura Bush's pending arrival, but he found out her plane had already landed the day before. That would tend to piss anybody off. What were they thinking? That the White House would actually tell them the truth about travel plans? Then throw the guy to the wolvesNewsjanitor conveniently leaves that out.
He wasn't the least bit apologetic about detailing the Bush family drug and alcohol issues as part of the reason for her involvement in substance abuse campaigns, stood his ground, and left. It didn't go at all as newsjanitor said.
And then the White House calls and says they didn't like what he said, when what he said was nothing not already said by anyone else in the media. She's talked a lot about it everywhere she goes and now they decide they don't like it. Really strange. Is the W.H. running the newsroom or something? Or maybe is the whole thing being made up as a way to screw him?
It really gets me fired up when I see people treated like this.
From what I saw, I have serious doubts he was fired. He was so disgusted he stormed off and it was obvious he wouldn't come back. I think anybody who saw ALL of what was going on would come to the same conclusion.
The reasons he didn't fit in were many. First a core of people here didn't want him to fit in, weren't about to welcome or reach out to him, and he wasn't about kiss ass to get in with them. He wasn't a local and many resented that. The guy was really different from what normally comes through this market (very east coast) and people in the newsroom resented that too. The fact he was brought in while others were getting laid off was another. Yea, he was hired by a previous news director (Jeff Allen), who hired him before in Houston, which I didn't think was as big a deal as some said it was. I just think that reason was used to cover for their resentment of the guy just being different. And let's face it, most who didn't like him felt that way before he walked in the door. I was here before he got here. I saw it. He didn't stand a chance.
He was a good anchor but that didn't matter because there were cheese heads there that thought the job should have been theirs, when they weren't as good as he was. So they put Donahue back on again, in part, just to settle all the uproar over the guy being brought in. The ratings are basically the same. It does less than 2 points, we're lucky if it gets a 1.5... The show is mostly in the basement against the competition. It does better the first hour only because there aren't as many people watching. So it beats 2 by default sometimes. It has no future and everybody here knows it.
Please! Man, the place never wants to change and that's the biggest reason why Lyn didn't fit in. He pushed for change. And that's also the biggest reason he was a lightening rod. You couldn't even defend the guy in the newsroom without feeling like somebody would take it out on you somehow. I've never seen anything like it.
And I'm sure they is somebody in the newsroom who hated him who is desparately trying to figure out who could have written this cause they thought the stamped out anybody who might speak anything favorable of him.
I'm not saying they guy never did anything wrong, but it was amazing how some people in that place can get away with the stuff they do, which was a big deal if he ever did the same thing. And it was sooooo obvious. And there were those in the newsroom who made no secret that was the case. It's like they wanted him to see that and get the message, "We don't like you!". Who wouldn't take it personally?
He wasn't into a lot of crime and senseless stuff.Although he was told to do it. And for a while he got stuck doing stupid sales department stuff which was fluff, but was a team player and did it anyway. He worked hard but he would not let anybody crap on him. They really crapped on him Thursday. And he decided he had enough. They cleaned out his desk Friday. He told somebody Thursday he didn't even want to go into the newsroom to get his stuff. Then, he was officially out of here Friday. At least they offered to send it to him. How bad is that! Sounds like he quit to me.
I don't know of anybody who has talked with him since he left. He did have a number of people here who liked him though they kept quiet about it, for obvious reasons. His wife works for a newspaper. He pretty much kept to himself when he wasn't at work, so I don't know what he's up to. But if you see this Lyn, We wish you well, you deserve better than this place.