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You’re not “reading into” it correctly. I’m not criticizing Mike for anything other than his behavior vis a vis The Washington Post. In my opinion, Mike is no hero. I feel sorry for him; he flamed out, and that has to feel bad. If he can make a go of it as a blogger, more power to him. It’s not something I’d want to attempt, but to haul out a couple old chestnuts: different people are different and it’s a free country.

Am still wondering whether Ape was summarily fired, as he wrote, and gave up any severance dollars, or agreed to resign (though under massive pressure, obviously) in order to depart with some cash.

My guess, and I stress that it’s only a guess, is that Mike got two weeks severance pay. Life in a suburban bureau of any newspaper is pretty close to the edge.

Just another example of the old guard (papers) not trusting the new guard (blogs). This site has never defamed the Washington Post in anyway. In my opinion, this dismissal was sophomoric on the paper’s part.

I disagree. Newspapers, including The Post now have blogs of their own. They are adapting, albeit slowly and likely too late. Mike most certainly defamed his employer, which responded as you’d expect an employer to respond. The only “sophomoric” thing here was Mike’s behavior. I seriously doubt that he’ll ever repeat such mistakes.

And my professors told me journalism was a noble profession…

When you write news, you have to maintain journalistic objectivity. THAT is the concept Ape missed. Of course we know that football has nothing to do with suburban news. We also know that many “news” writers do express opinions. Remember, though, that “talking heads” are not really doing news, they are the equivalent of columnists in the opinion section.

I think Ape failed to realize the extent to which management–and older journalists–take the idea of “objectivity.” Enough of what Ape has written on KSK is controversial enough (and not just the profanity and dick jokes) about issues beyond football that once he outed himself (with helpful links) he simply could no longer be a news reporter. “Lacist shoes?”

Maybe he really HATED the reporting he was doing so much, he figured outing himself was a good way to ensure he wouldn’t be on suburbia any more. I don’t think he really thought he’d be fired (let alone escorted out of the building), but it was a hell of a gamble.

Ape, you put your cards on the table, you showed them you can do a lot more than lost dog writing, but instead of moving you to one of the other jobs you’d applied for, but you lost. You knew it wasn’t going to work anyway, because you basically flipped the Post the bird when you outed yourself.

It’s not about being pictured drunk or profanity, really. If you are going to write news, you can’t have an opinion (not under your real name). Not even if your opinions are a LOT tamer than your very inspired work on KSK.

So let’s be clear about why you were really fired. I DO admire the sense of duty Ape showed in “outing” himself once KSK went paid and was no longer a hobby. It took a lot of courage, and the fact that he gave Full Disclosure says a lot about him as a person and as a journalist. But there were mistakes in judgment here about a reporter keeping objectivity–or, just as important, the appearance of objectivity. AS they say, you report the news. When you BECOME the news, very quickly you lose your job reporting the news.

But what do I know.

Devil and Eli, a couple things.

Mike wrote the following to Joe Strupp of E&P, scolding Strupp for not trying hard enough to contact him: This is journalism at its laziest and it’s a testament to why I’m glad to be out of that profession.

So, what is Mike doing now? Writing for a blog. Which is still journalism, but with a crucial difference. Fortunately for Mike, he’s young enough to take a new direction, and to finish growing up.

Mike wrote the following to Joe Strupp of E&P, scolding Strupp for not trying hard enough to contact him: This is journalism at its laziest and it’s a testament to why I’m glad to be out of that profession.

So, what is Mike doing now? Writing for a blog. Which is still journalism, but with a crucial difference. Fortunately for Mike, he’s young enough to take a new direction, and to finish growing up.