[Ipg-smz] Dvorak is out at PC Mag

[Tom Henderson]

It's my belief that it's about relationships and mutual understanding.

I've known JD for a long time. He's not the most ingratiating 
individual, but is tenable.

For a journalist doing tech, he's an astute journalist. He's not a 
practitioner of the tech arts, and from his observation points, is 
skilled at separating wheat from chaff.

PCMag's termination process isn't much different than how CMP, Ziff, 
Penton, and a dozen others whacked their staff, even after a long tenure 
as a freelancer. Most treated their W2 staff the same way.... or much 
worse.

For many commercial endeavors, it's the golden rule: they which hath the 
gold maketh the rules.

Tom


On 09/22/2018 09:37 PM, Dana Blankenhorn wrote:
> I agree. It's terrible. But it should send a lesson to all writers, 
> right down to the lowest j-school.
>
> Don't give your loyalty to a publisher. Be your own boss. We all need 
> to be free agents.
>
> I didn't do that in my career, and I've paid a price, in lost readers, 
> and lost opportunities. I think all of us have. We need to stop doing it.
>
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 5:29 PM Richi Jennings <richi.ipg at richi.uk 
> <mailto:richi.ipg at richi.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Even I got a phone call from Scot. After just 11 years.
>
>
>     -- 
>     // @richi • +44-7789-200-701 <tel:+44%207789%20200701> •
>     richi.uk/contact <http://richi.uk/contact>
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>     On Sat, 22 Sep 2018, 10:22 pm sjvn, <sjvn at vna1.com
>     <mailto:sjvn at vna1.com>> wrote:
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>         On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 21:48 -0700, Mac McCarthy wrote:
>>         Geez!
>
>         I haven't seen eye to eye with Dvorak over the years, but
>         seriously. 36 years in and what appears to be a form letter
>         e-mail closing down his column? That's just sad.
>
>         I mean, I know there's no loyalty from publishers to writers,
>         but come on! Would it have killed them to send him a personal
>         note?
>
>         Steven
>
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