Tuesday, September 25th, 2007...7:17 am
There Ain’t No Party Like an Arizona Capitol Times Party
On Sunday, the Republic ran a bit on Karen Fullenwider, managing editor of the Arizona Capitol Times, being fired. Here is the money quote:
“I’ve spent my weeks feeling like some kind of a party planner instead of an editor at a political newspaper,” Fullenwider said.
It may even be worse than that. There are reports of dissatisfaction among the staff at the Capitol Times ever since its purchase by Dolan Media. One correspondent sent me the following regarding tommorrow’s Leaders in Public Policy event:
Staffers were asked to stuff invitation envelopes, call officials to encourage attendance and deliver flowers or balloons to the honorees.
Some Republican bloggers have been criticizing the “leftist” direction of the Capitol Times lately. I don’t see it. Heck, the big name award tommorrow is going to the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, not exactly a den of trotskyites. I don’t have a problem with them giving awards (I wrote about their recognizing Rebekah Friend a couple of weeks ago), but I am concerned when it seems that they doing this at the expense of their doing journalism.
5 Comments
September 25th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Actually, the Capitol Times has been tacking right ever since Dolan bought them. Almost to the point of being unreadable.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:29 am
For another perspective on what’s happening at Cap times, take a hard-right turn and visit the “Sonoran Alliance” blog: http://www.sonoranalliance.com/
October 1st, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Let’s put this in perspective. Fullenwider wasn’t running a true political newspaper when Creighton owned it, it was simply a lobbyist checklist for the bills they were watching. She helped encourage the wrong kind of politics at the paper, which, by the way, I think can be a tremendous publication under a better editor. She hired her own husband without an interview. I think this paper can do well with an editor with great experience. I may even subscribe!
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:18 pm
To put it in perspective, Ned Creighton hired me, not my wife. He actually interviewed me for the job twice — once when I went there initially as a temp during the legislative session, and again when I was hired for a permanent position to cover Clean Elections, the appellate courts and other beats. Ned did my evaluations, not Karen.
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
I’d be interested to know what you mean, In Perspective, by your code phrase, “the wrong kind of politics.”
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