Very interesting blog comment from former Just Out staff Stephen Marc Beaudoin about his experience working for Marty Davis. http://wweek.com/wwire/?p=24007
Damn right Marty Davis is "nervous"! She's scared stiff! Why? Because if Just Out folds, Davis owes TENS of THOUSANDS of dollars to staff members, the government (for unpaid payroll taxes), and current advertisers that have long-running ad contracts. Davis doesn't give a shit about her staff or the GLBT community, she simply wants to avoid these debts for as long as possible. If she actually cared, she would have bowed out graciously years ago and let someone with half a brain take over. Instead, she's run the paper into the ground and continues to take advantage of and abuse the remaining staff. God help anyone who has the misfortune of taking a position there.
Damn right Marty Davis is "nervous"! She's scared stiff! Why? Because if Just Out folds, Davis owes TENS of THOUSANDS of dollars to staff members, the government (for unpaid payroll taxes), and current advertisers that have long-running ad contracts. Davis doesn't give a shit about her staff or the GLBT community. She simply wants to avoid these debts for as long as possible.
Davis' financial problems began LONG before the economy went in the crapper. She was losing staff due to missed pay dates as early as 2007. She verbally abuses staff members and, in staff meetings, says NASTY things about her so-called professional colleagues (Byron Beck, the owner of the Eagle on Lombard, members of the leather or bear community, among others). She fosters a very with-me-or-against-me atmosphere in the Just Out office, and anyone that does not roll over and take it is fired or, worse, subjected to daily emotional harassment.
Davis doesn't care about the LGBT community, even though she claims to represent them. If she did care, she would have bowed out graciously years ago and let someone with half a brain take over. Instead, she's run the paper into the ground and continues to take advantage of and abuse the remaining staff. God help anyone who has the misfortune of taking a position there.
It probably wasnāt the best time for them to take it upon themselves to deepen the divide in the Portland gay community by asking our Mayor to step down. They lost a lot of readers and advertisers because of poor and unnecessary judgment and āreportingā. Either way, itās unfortunate that more people are being laid off but Iām happy to see WW and JustOut go under.
Used to read WW religiously.
Then I used their website.
Then they redesigned it to a horrible mash of crap like Oregonian. Then I found the merc website.
I'll never read another paper again.
I block every advertisement using adblock plus.
I don't care.
Davis' financial problems began LONG before the economy went in the crapper. She was losing staff due to missed pay dates as early as 2007. She verbally abuses staff members and, in staff meetings, says NASTY things about her so-called professional colleagues (Byron Beck, the owner of the Eagle on Lombard, members of the leather or bear community, among others). She fosters a very with-me-or-against-me atmosphere in the Just Out office, and anyone that does not roll over and take it is fired or, worse, subjected to daily emotional harassment.
Davis doesn't care about the LGBT community, even though she claims to represent them. If she did care, she would have bowed out graciously years ago and let someone with half a brain take over. Instead, she's run the paper into the ground and continues to take advantage of and abuse the remaining staff. God help anyone who has the misfortune of taking a position there.
I sure hope those writers can afford their own Starbucks.
Then I used their website.
Then they redesigned it to a horrible mash of crap like Oregonian. Then I found the merc website.
I'll never read another paper again.
I block every advertisement using adblock plus.
I don't care.
Just thought you'd like to know the progression.