Thursday, January 03, 2008
DRINK UP
A memo to Cincinnati Post staff from editor Mike Philipps, on the occasion of the newspaper’s closing:
Please do not bring any alcoholic beverages into the newsroom. Let’s go out like the professionals we have been these last, difficult weeks.
To which Jack Shafer quite reasonably responds:
1) Since when is it considered unprofessional for a journalist to take a drink? and 2) If Post staffers, who were all scheduled for dismissal, did bring flasks to work, what was Philipps going to do if he caught them? Fire them?
(Via Rich Stadnik)