Chicagoist: More Bad News Out of the Trib's Newsroom

jimbo

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:44:52 -0600

Again - nice spook. It's only integration if you classify people based on the shade of his/her skin.

Spook

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:56:56 -0600

See what I mean AlbanyParker?

jimbo

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:34:48 -0600

Nice Spook. Had Quintanilla said something along the line of did you hire the most qualified assistant every time? there would be no issue. His problem is that the only qualification he's looking at is race, which is hardly a qualification.

Spook

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:05:37 -0600

Tower, better watch who you are agreeing with because I'm sure Jimbo aint making no distinctions between minority writers and assistants. He is against the whole "forced intergration" concept

emme

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:42:45 -0600

@Margaret: After that posting #13 I reread your last couple of sentences -- I misunderstood what you were trying to say. When I initially read the Journal-isms piece, I thought "powerful white Tribune columnist" screamed Kass; I can understand why a third party wouldn't want to come out and say that.

Margaret Lyons

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:24:39 -0600

@Emme: Argh, more coffee. I meant "most." As in, I'm hard pressed to call most of them powerful. Some of them, though, sure. D'oh.

emme

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:15:43 -0600

@Margaret: I'm confused. "More" what?

Ward Up

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:12:07 -0600

I can't think of any kind of workplace where Mr. Quintanilla's heroic (in his own eyes) confrontation would be viewed as anything other than annoying and idiotic. Good bye, Mr. Quintanilla. I do have sympathy, though, for the other Trib staffers who lost their jobs. I hope they land on their feet.

Margaret Lyons

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:51:18 -0600

@emme: I said "more" for a reason...

emme

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:37 -0600

I think there's a little confusion -- the assistants *are* journalists. Unless things have changed drastically in the last 10 years, the assistants/reporters are hired from outside the Trib, and after their tenure with Kass they move on to, usually, general assignment positions. It's a plum job. Margaret, ask David Ochal if John Kass is powerful.

Albanyparkour

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:06:44 -0600

If anything, shouldn't Mr. Quintanilla be arguing for more minorities as journalists, rather than more minorities as journalists' assistants? That is SPOT-ON. The fact he's going to a magazine to have a good cry after all this makes me think he didn't handle his accusation with much care or tact either. But that's just wild and reckless speculation. The very best kind.

emme

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:03:48 -0600

Looking at Quintanilla's photo on the Journal-isms site, I'd guess he's got at least two feet on Kass. He should have gone for it.

Tower18

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:45:33 -0600

I agree Jimbo and Albany. Kind of a douche move. If anything, shouldn't Mr. Quintanilla be arguing for more minorities as journalists, rather than more minorities as journalists' assistants?

curmudgeon

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:43:16 -0600

Does seniority enter into any of this?

jmagic

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:16:19 -0600

Definitely Kass. Zorn publicly challenging Quintanilla to a fight? That's definitely Kass - the Chicago way.

Albanyparkour

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:16:11 -0600

So he went up to a senior staffer and essentially accused them of racism? Yeah, that'll get you fired, pretty much anywhere.

jimbo

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:53:43 -0600

He said his marching orders came a day after he challenged a powerful white Tribune columnist who for the fifth time had hired a white assistant, asking the columnist if he had considered any people of color. If anything, Quintanilla should have been fired for being an idiot.

xlprq

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:35:04 -0600

Has to be Kass. Who else could it be? Zorn? I doubt it.

Zack

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:21:12 -0600

Kass?