First - I admire the way you come on board here and engage with us 'amateurs'. With that, I do have soem very very pointed criticisms of your colleague! take it for what it is worth:
With J Souhan, it's not an honest mistake that has us in an uproar (imho). Anyone can make a mistake, and the one with Gray was as you say, an easy one to make.
The problem is bigger. It's his lack of logic. Witness the comment about excessive JC recruiting. I just do not remember Glen being castigated for bringing in Antoine Burns. Or Rhys Lloyd. or even Brylee Callendar or Logan Uu for God's sake!
And the intellectual laziness when he essentially just re-capitualtes what he has been saying on the radio and in his columns for 2-3 months at least. Souhan is entitled to his opinion. People can read it or not, and engage in opinions on its value, or not. His opinion is after all very well known and has been expressed voer as I say, quite a bit of bandwidth. Why does it need to be re-stated, other than because he has an axe to grind?
You may disagree with that assessment. But you might ask yourself, deep down. You are trying to make a living at writing, and seem to be doing allright. Cool. But --> all of us have finite resources. Think about this. Why should any of us pay for recycled claptrap and poorly-thought out, illogical articles like Souhan just wrote? What is the purpose of using a business model which naturally torks off more than half of your constituency? Imho, Mr. J.S. is letting his emotional/visceral dislike of Brewster rule his columns and his scope of work. I don't know, I don't know the guy like you do. But what he did today is as the science fiction author Larry Niven has said is the ultimate sin for any writer paid for his work. He has totally wasted my time.
Now of course your mileage, as they say, may vary. As for me, I will never intentionally shell out a single nickle for anything Souhan writes. Obviously that includes dropping my Strib subscription.
And ,a s J.S. said in another context, "I'm tired of (talking) about this topic!!!!!
