“Nope. You must be mistaken. If you actually read the pertinent laws, we did nothing wrong.” That’s the layman’s translation for the 10 pages of paperwork filed on Monday afternoon, December 11, by the attorneys for The Independent in response to the lawsuit being brought by the News-Press and Wendy McCaw. Also, was Randy Alcorn fired? And check out a link to the latest McCaw memo circulating her employees’ saddened desks.
You know, we’d be happy to stop writing about the News-Press debacle anytime soon, repurpose this blog to covering all sorts of S.B. media, and just go back to the regular news-gathering/scoop-snagging gig we’ve been doing for 20 years now. But it seems that the N-P‘s owner Wendy McCaw just can’t stop bringing the spotlight of shame back her way at least once a week.
You probably know by now that on December 3, the UCSB men’s soccer team won the national championship. Did you hear what the Gaucho fans did upon learning that? They threw a goal into the ocean. Did you see that happen? Now you can.
It was a rare but welcome sight: smiles and genuine cheer on the faces of those stuck in the News-Press trenches. That’s what happened last night, Thursday, December 7, when a gaggle of courageous N-P newsroom employees past and present converged at El Paseo to party down at The Independent‘s annual holiday shabang. But will they be smiling at their party, when IDs are checked at the door? See inside for a letter written to Dr. Laura by one Indy reader/N-P employee who wants to bring her fiancee to the party.
This week, a march is scheduled on Wednesday, December 6, to protest the current state of affairs at the News-Press, support the newsroom staffers still sticking it out, ask for Melinda Burns to get her job back, and call for union demands to be honored.
There’s a Grinch running around the streets of Santa Barbara this holiday season, and the tops of Christmas trees seem to be what he or she is craving. That’s not good for tree seller Anthony Del Bello, who’s not out about $14,000.
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If babies are funny and wigs are funny, why wouldn’t babies wearing wigs be double-funny? That was the question Santa Barbara’s Graham Farrar, Matt Meyer, and Peter Kyriacou found themselves pondering a couple years ago when the trio was brainstorming possible inventions.
As we expected, the City of Santa Barbara did not approve of the News-Press‘ brand new green fence, which was fully erected last Friday. In a letter to the newspaper on Monday afternoon, City Hall said, essentially, “Take it down or be fined.”
What was reported to 911 as an ambush on Sunday night atop the Santa Ynez Mountains turned out to be just another case of a guy shooting himself in the hand and being too embarrassed to tell the truth.
