Re: Quick

Tim, just talked to an executive at the DMN. I’ll take that bet. Cuz, as my source says:

“At this point, there are no plans to make any radical changes to Quick.”

Then she offered to hire me as a consultant. Cha. Ching. Brutha.

16 comments

  1. Maybe they don’t consider going weekly a radical change?

    @ 4:18 pm on July 8, 2008
  2. DMN executives fib just like everyone else:
    I called them almost a year ago to talk about a fire at their production plant in Plano. According to an editor there nothing happened at the plant. It wasn’t until I talked to the plant operations manager that I learned they had to evacuate because of a power surge at a generator.

    @ 4:23 pm on July 8, 2008
  3. She must have read your cougar story…

    @ 4:25 pm on July 8, 2008
  4. probably because the “editor” works during the day and the power surge happened during the night shift. Things like that happen all the time, I don’t see any conspiracy of silence.

    @ 4:31 pm on July 8, 2008
  5. The bet, then: Quick is a weekly by September 18. You’re on, Eric.

    @ 4:32 pm on July 8, 2008
  6. “We have no plans to make radical changes” sounds an awful lot like “I’m leaving politics to spend more time with my family.”

    @ 4:49 pm on July 8, 2008
  7. Heard they offered to double Celeste’s salary. When he resisted protesting his loyalty to ‘D’ Rogers and Allison, they tried tempting him with expense accounts, zero deductible health policies, Fridays 8-noon workdays to utilize gratis green fee perk.
    I’m thinking golden parachute.

    @ 4:55 pm on July 8, 2008
  8. The power surge and subsequent fire happened during the day. The editor had to call the plant to confirm it after I called for an interview.

    @ 5:16 pm on July 8, 2008
  9. Once again, Frontburner publishes an unsubstantiated rumor. Let’s raise the journalism bar, boys.

    @ 5:36 pm on July 8, 2008
  10. Quick isn’t a weekly already?

    @ 5:57 pm on July 8, 2008
  11. Oh, “Ethics,” please. We read FrontBurner because of the unsubstantiated rumors. Baiting the D gang with info or a conflicting POV is great sport.

    Now, please get off your journalistic high horse and let us know when you are ready to become a PR hack.

    @ 2:16 am on July 9, 2008
  12. “DMN executives fib” … and the award for understatement of the year goes to …

    @ 9:05 am on July 9, 2008
  13. I have it on the best of authorities that next week we will begin publishing quadrennially.

    @ 4:23 pm on July 9, 2008
  14. I thought FB Nation collectively told you to go away.

    @ 5:03 pm on July 9, 2008
  15. Hmmmmmm. Doesn’t ring a bell.

    @ 5:29 pm on July 9, 2008
  16. It was about the time D rejected you.

    @ 10:16 pm on July 9, 2008