Victor Paul Alvarez, the boston.com associate editor who got fired for asking if anybody would notice if John Boehner had been poisoned says three other editors at the site looked at his story and either approved or didn't say no and now he has to explain to his little daughter that, no, it's not fair that that cost him his job while Brian Williams is free to take a few days off for lying about being shot down in Iraq and watching a body float by in New Orleans.
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Dear Mr. Alvarez: the fact
By UHub fan
Tue, 02/10/2015 - 5:49pm
Dear Mr. Alvarez: the fact that none of these three other editors looked at you and said, "The 'eff, dude?" doesn't mean your article was okay. Instead, it means that there are at least three other people in editorial positions at Boston.com who are just as inept at journalism as you are.
The link
By 02132
Tue, 02/10/2015 - 6:04pm
http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/318621/fired...
Not sure why he's complaining
By anon
Tue, 02/10/2015 - 6:51pm
I would think being separated from boston.com is about the most positive thing a writer could hope for.
It worked wonders for me as a reader.
What a douchebag
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 02/10/2015 - 7:06pm
Stop turning the business of reporting the news into a race to the bottom. Here's an idea, both for this tool and for Brian Williams: Stop lying and stop sucking at your jobs.
Like, I honestly can't believe that people pay money to attend college to report news for a living. It doesn't appear that they learn much of anything.
One thing they learned...
By Brian Riccio
Tue, 02/10/2015 - 7:50pm
Never to start a sentence with "Like,".
Never?
By Ron Newman
Tue, 02/10/2015 - 8:00pm
"Like it or not, we're getting more snow this week."
You'll notice the
By Brian Riccio
Tue, 02/10/2015 - 8:07pm
strategically placed comma after his "Like", usually denoting a somewhat adolescent mindset.
However
By Waquiot
Tue, 02/10/2015 - 9:02pm
The difference between Will and Alvarez is that Alvarez was paid to write, and he couldn't get that right.
I have no knowledge of the inner workings of the business of running quiz contests for drunks, so I'll leave that to others. At the end of the day, Alvarez was a dick where he shouldn't have been. Now he can do so on his own website. Will is free to do so here, as we all are.
Yeah, I do that in official conversation
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 02/11/2015 - 1:01am
It's a (expletive) chat thread. I typed in colloquial English.
Brian Williams has been suspended for 6 months without pay
By Ron Newman
Tue, 02/10/2015 - 11:33pm
source: USA Today
possible defense
By anon
Wed, 02/11/2015 - 2:13am
Maybe boston.com writers were being encouraged to write this kind of provocative web content, and his main mistake was to do a particular flavor of crap that happened to be very tabboo?
Maybe many people were responsible -- up to the owner -- but the writer is the only one publicly taking the hit so far.
yes
By anon
Wed, 02/11/2015 - 7:53am
John Henry wants a clickbait content farm, he gets one..