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(Editor) Felling out at CBS Public Eye (Dinosaur Media DeathWatchâ„¢)
Poynter Online ^ | December 17, 2007 | Jim Romenesko

Posted on 12/17/2007 1:04:02 PM PST by abb

Date/Time: 12/17/2007 3:45:55 PM Title: Felling out at CBS Public Eye Posted By: Jim Romenesko

12.17.07 3:46pm (EST)

Good afternoon and I beg your pardon for the mass e-mail:

It's with mixed feelings that I share the information that -- effective as of mid-afternoon last Friday -- I have been let go at CBSNews.com in a "restructuring" of the Interactive division. ('Restructuring': the "downsized" of the new millennium.)

Why the mixed feelings, then? Well, to paraphrase Mark Twain, one should write while angry and disappointed, but edit with a bit of remove.

So with a weekend of simmering, I'm able to say that while I enjoyed my time as Co-Editor and then Editor of the "Public Eye" Web site -- I walked in insisting I was an 'online columnist' but then, months later, admitted to being a "blogger" -- I now am looking forward to a new challenge and a new opportunity.

If you have any suggestions, feedback or random thoughts/musings, feel free to reach out. I look forward to hearing them.

Many thanks and Happy Holidays,

Matthew T. Felling


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; dbm; publiceye; television
Yet more good news!!
1 posted on 12/17/2007 1:04:04 PM PST by abb
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To: 04-Bravo; aimhigh; andyandval; Arizona Carolyn; backhoe; Bahbah; bert; bilhosty; Caipirabob; ...

ping


2 posted on 12/17/2007 1:04:32 PM PST by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: abb

3 posted on 12/17/2007 1:04:51 PM PST by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING


4 posted on 12/17/2007 1:08:44 PM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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To: abb

Good one!


5 posted on 12/17/2007 1:10:17 PM PST by Palladin (Cackle..cackle..cackle. Hillary laid another egg.)
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To: abb

So SeeBS News is killing their link to the new media? Is this their way of modernizing?


6 posted on 12/17/2007 1:10:59 PM PST by Tall_Texan (No Third Term For Bill Clinton!)
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I guess SeeBS is going to BE the Grinch this Christmas rather than just airing the Grinch.


7 posted on 12/17/2007 1:11:55 PM PST by Tall_Texan (No Third Term For Bill Clinton!)
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To: abb

It’s hard to feel sympathetic for anyone who was willing to be part of the monsterous hypocracy that is CBS.


8 posted on 12/17/2007 1:13:24 PM PST by Spok
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To: abb

Show us your pj’s. your not a real blogger without them


9 posted on 12/17/2007 1:14:33 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: abb

Golly, this doesn’t bother me a bit....


10 posted on 12/17/2007 1:15:41 PM PST by Badeye (No thanks, Huck, I'm not whitewashing the fence for you this election cycle)
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Maybe this...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940788/posts

is the real reason CBS let him go. Wouldn’t surprise me.


11 posted on 12/17/2007 1:16:14 PM PST by Tall_Texan (No Third Term For Bill Clinton!)
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12 posted on 12/17/2007 1:29:39 PM PST by Corin Stormhands ( It's okay to tell me "Merry Christmas")
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To: Tall_Texan
I'm missing what you're getting at with the link.

I don't see Felling or CBS mentioned at all.

Since I don't "do" SeeBS, did Felling fall offthe wrong side of the bandwagon at "Public Eye"?

13 posted on 12/17/2007 1:51:10 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Spok

Xacly.


14 posted on 12/17/2007 1:54:09 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: abb
Image hosted by Photobucket.com listen stooopid... start your own blog, course if nobody wants to read your dribble, well...

Would you like Fry's with that???

15 posted on 12/17/2007 3:13:11 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: weegee

Sweet!


16 posted on 12/17/2007 8:01:07 PM PST by an amused spectator (AGW: If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a research lab, you never know what you'll find)
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