[Ipg-smz] Dvorak is out at PC Mag

[Steve Wexler]

I find it fascinating that at the same time businesses are scrambling to
get on the customer-loyalty bandwagon so many continue to treat employees
as readily-disposable assets.
I believe that is a badly flawed business model and now that customers --
including readers -- have more choices -- one that can have major impacts.
Remember, most people consider(ed) Jon Stewart and The Daily Show more
credible than EVERY other news program!

On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 at 22:49, Tom Henderson <thenderson at extremelabs.com>
wrote:

> 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> wrote:
>
>> Even I got a phone call from Scot. After just 11 years.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 22 Sep 2018, 10:22 pm sjvn, <sjvn at vna1.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols CBS/ZDNet, Contributing Editor:
>>> http://goo.gl/FkYasd ComputerWorld, Columnist: http://goo.gl/c02Km0
>>> QOTD: "I will buckle down to work as soon as I finish reading the
>>> Internet."--Stewart Brand
>>>
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