Posted on 01/07/2012 12:09:50 PM PST by presidio9
One day after Mort Zuckerman shook up his Daily News by cutting loose the paper’s editor, the deposed leader gave a farewell address to the troops.
Kevin Convey, the longtime Boston Herald editor who lasted only 18 months at the ailing News, gave a “short and sweet” farewell address, according to one insider.
“It was a weird ending to a weird tenure,” said the insider.
At about the same time, the incoming editor, Colin Myler, was boarding a plane in London, according to one report, to jet to his new assignment, which starts Jan. 10.
“To the degree we’ve had any success, it is because of you,” Convey told the troops, gathered in the center of the newsroom.
“Every night you made me feel like General Patton,” he said, according to Capital New York, which listened to a live audio feed of the speech that lasted less than two minutes. “You never let me down. Whatever successes I may have had, I’m aware they were because of your hard work. And the failures were entirely mine.”
Most were surprised that Convey turned up in the newsroom a day after his demise was announced by internal memo to staffers. The Daily News did not cover the changing of the guard in its own pages and Convey remained on the masthead yesterday as the top editor.
Arthur Browne, the editorial page editor who was brought in as Convey’s “deputy” last fall, and began running the newsroom at that time, was in attendance.
“I think people are still pretty shell-shocked,” said one insider, who said most expected that Browne would get the job that instead went to Myler.
Browne, a lifelong News hand, wrote a column in yesterday’s paper with the headline, “I’m New York’s Biggest Loser.”
The column was
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Ambrose E Burnside thinks he’s George S Patton...
Patton is dead and so is his job...should have picked someone living to talk about...
Die, Daily News, die.
“Every night you made me feel like General Patton,”he said,
This guy couldn’t be a pimple on Gen. Patton’s rear end.
Patton has a thing about writers.
General Patton’s Address to the Troops
“the bilious bastards who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don’t know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about f*cking!”
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