Wonders never cease. Do you remember Kyle Magin, the short-time reporter at The Union?
He came here to spout the word “dips**t” and defend the former Union publisher’s prowess as a journalist. Kyle is real class act.
In a reorganization, Kyle has been named the editor of Tahoe Quarterly, reporting to Jared Swanson, whose family runs the publication. Kyle replaces Chaco Mohler, the magazine’s co-founder, editor and publisher.
The Swansons — upstanding in their faith — do not take well to words like “dips**t.”
I give Kyle about a year in that slot. The Swansons demand results, not “bulls**t.”
Meanwhile, Tahoe Quarterly’s V-Tour has been renamed XplorIT.
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With that attitude I hope it’s about as long as a “quarter” year.
Dippy- I look forward to your labored shuffling and avoiding eye contact with me at Jax in the future. I’d be offended at the “results” remark, but if your standard of journalistic “results” is the successful reporting of a shoe store’s opening and plastering SCOOP on the headline… I’ll turn elsewhere for criticism.
Kyle,
Sorry to disappoint, but I’ve never met you and don’t remember what you look like.
In Kyle’s time at The Union, I found him a real pleasure to work with, professional and easy-going, a good reporter and a good writer. I was extremely unhappy to see him go, and ALWAYS wish him all the best.
Thanks Liz. That counts oodles. Now back to work!
I had spoken with Kyle a time or two, and I hope that we don’t base our evaluation of someone like Kyle because he used the term “dipsh_t” one, or two times.
He was always professional with me and I had no complaints about his communications.
I think that it’s pretty unfair for those of us who do not know Kyle, or his work to be biased by this “scoop”.
I too wish him the best in his career, as we all grow in our lives…..
A newsman who swears? Maybe he’s channeling the legendary Dave Burgin.
Ha!
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-01-15/business/fi-28401_1_executive-editor
Can someone please inform me what constitutes a good reporter and/or good writer at the Union? I cannot name very many that were memorable in the eighteen years that I’ve lived here. The writing/reporting over that time, overall, has been average at best.
Jon…Maybe you have a problem. As the song goes…Can you look in that looking glass and smile?
Bonnie perhaps you have a bias in favor of The Union? Not close to a good paper, just ahead of The Territorial Dispatch. Too many errors and way too much blatantly false information that can be found on the “opinion” page. Don’t know Kyle but I wasn’t impressed with some of his responses. Sour grapes I guess. But I do wish him success in his new endeavor and hope he might learn from the past.
Average isn’t bad, considering The Union’s position in the food chain.
When dead-tree journalism was actually a thriving industry, The Union was the kind of paper where you got your first experience working for a daily. You made mistakes as you learned your trade, but–if you were any good–built up a portfolio that got you a job at a bigger newspaper.
Unless they are in the business and pay attention to this stuff, most people don’t remember the names of reporters unless they wrote a story about them. I’m convinced some people don’t even read the newspapers they subscribe to.
When the late–and unlamented–Peninsula TimesTribute went out of business in Palo Alto, the final edition carried the usual dooms day headline announcing its demise. The next day at the gym, I overhead two guys complaining their paper wasn’t delivered that morning. Clearly, they hadn’t read Friday’s paper, which probably explains why the TimesTribune went out of business.
Great story about the PTT, George.
Here is the wiki entry: “The Palo Alto Times, a daily newspaper served Palo Alto and neighboring cities beginning in 1894. In 1979 it became the Peninsula Times Tribune. The newspaper ceased publication in 1993.”
I delivered the Palo Alto Times, and its trashy freebie the Times Tribune, when I was a kid growing up in Los Altos in 1971 thru 1973. Weird times. That was old school…deliver the paper, then every month go door to door to collect the $1.85 from lots of cranky old people. Plenty of pennies and wrinkled dollar bills. I used to count the piles in my bedroom, and fill out my ledger sheet in the notebook my dad gave me. What a trip.
This is how I learned about capitalism, the worst economic system in the universe, except for all the others.
I agree Jon. There was one reporter I liked but she has since left.
As I stated, at best.. average. Unfortunately The Union’s best is seen rarely. Amongst the many small community papers I’ve had the good fortune to read, The Union rates barely a mention. No worries though with this blog (and others) and Yubanet.
I always enjoyed Zuri Berry’s reporting at the Union.
Whatever happened to him?
Shilling and Glasse validate my comment about people not remembering reporters’ names. Easily the best reporter to work for The Union in the almost 13 years I’ve been reading the paper was Doug Mattson. Anybody remember him?
Sorry George, but many of us have other things that we deal with on a daily basis, and remembering a reporter that left 13 years ago is not one of them.
I do thoroughly enjoy reading Liz Keller’s work as she is a very sharp person and she does a very good job!
I wrote LAST 13 years, not 13 years ago. Reading comprehension is important when evaluating the work of reporters.
It’s interesting you would cite Liz Kellar (not “Keller”) because Mattson was The Union’s cops reporter. Doug was never bashful about asking the sensitive question or hesitant to write a story that would upset the brass, and apparently the patrolmen appreciated his work.
Doug was stopped one night for expired license tags. After the cop ran his license through the computer, he asked: “Are you THE Doug Mattson?”
The cop let Doug go with a warning.