BY Herschel Smith
9 years, 6 months ago
David Codrea:
Well, that was quick. At least it shows they can move when motivated. They fired me, and warned me not to show anyone the termination notice because that would violate a confidentiality agreement. I’ll match their agreement violations over the years against mine if they want to pursue this, because I maintain this is definitely in the interests of pursuing a story about cheesy Examiner.com practices …
I think there is more to the story and told David so. He doesn’t think so, and relates it to the silly editorial practices they have implemented. Well, if I’m right, something has happened behind the scene they want to hide by administrative smoke. If David is right, Examiner is very conflicted and confused.
Go read the new rules they put on him. No new research conducted only by the writer, but no link baiting. Use of only material that is already published by one of the large media outlets (my interpretation), but things that are only newsworthy.
I don’t think Examiner understands how this new media thing works. If it weren’t for blogs and alternative media, the crap published by the MSM would go unchallenged except for comments. And the comments are brutal, to be sure. They are the best editor the MSM could get. But I’ve used combinations of MSM links to show inconsistency, used analysis to draw larger conclusions based on both my own work and the MSM’s work, used information acquired by FOIA requests I made, done direct interviews, and so on. It takes all of this to do good work, and Examiner is preparing itself for meaninglessness. It was close anyway.
No one will read them, or if they do, it will be spineless and boring milquetoast. Goodbye to Examiner. As for David, he will survive, and he’s too good for the goobers over at Examiner. I’m done with Examiner, and I’ll keep following David wherever he goes. Good riddance to unnecessary baggage, and a new beginning to a friend.
