OC Register Death Watch Part Two

• to UR Wrong - buyouts are the same as layoffs- that's how they "offically" go down- so the people can get unemployment. so you are wrong there. but your other two points may be valid. and i know for a fact that this new website idea was not Horne's own idea, but does it really matter? Singleton = death.

• regarding "Horne's bright idea for a website that will surely secure the paper's future as a premiere source of local news: www.orangecounty.com. The website, Horne says, will become a "destination portal" for folks all over the world who are interested in visiting Orange County or moving here." It launched, check it out. Does it look anything like the above description?

• I don't knows why I bother -- you'll persist in "reporting" the fiction you come up with in your bath. But let's review just one graf of your "story," shall we? "So let's sum up. Since taking over the paper, Horne has laid off dozens of writers and editors, overseen the self-destruction of its ill-starred spin-offs, Squeeze OC and OC Post, and entered into a devilish deal with Dean Singleton that promises to allow even more layoffs and cost-cutting. But don't worry folks, he's got plans for a travel information website that will make everything okay." So let's sum up yours errors: 1) Horn did not laid dozens of writers and editors. He arrive at the OCR in January. Nearly all the buyouts and layoffs -- there's a difference, you know -- occurred under former publisher Chris Anderson. Under Horn, about three people took buyouts and one was laid off in January out of the editorial staff. 2)The OC Post and Squeeze OC was also the retarded bastard spawn of Anderson. They'd been self-destructing for months under him, and instead of blaming Horn for them, if you were as fair and balanced as Bill O'Reilly you'd praise him for doing something right for the Register -- stopping the financial bleeding these two babies were responsible for. 3) Deals with Dean Singleton? I addressed this in my earlier note to you. Basically, you've taken a couple of facts -- there is some sharing going on -- and spun it into a fairy tale of your own crafting. Singleton isn't buying the Register -- at least not yet. And Barry Koltnow isn't losing his job -- geez, that one still irks me. If wrote that Nick Schou was losing his job because of lousy reporting like this stuff, I'd certainly not publish it until I had actual confirmation of that. So write sall the death watches you wants, but geez, dude, try at least to get the facts right. And maybe you should tip your buddies up at the LA Weekly that it might be time to start an LA Times Death Watch, too. After all, the Times has a deal with Singleton on some advertising inserts (http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS145516+08-Jan-2008+PRN20080108). Supposedly Chris Anderson was on a list of potential editors up there. And Metromix sure looks like OC Post and SqueezeOC had a baby who grew up and moved to the big city. Keeping you honest, UR Wrong Angry Bitter Register Staffer

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