Romenesko Misc. "It does not speak well for you,"
Roger Ebert tells
Jay Mariotti in an open letter. "Your timing was exquisite. You signed a new contract, waited until days after the newspaper had paid for your trip to Beijing at great cost, and then resigned with a two-word e-mail: 'I quit.' You saved your explanation for a local television station. ...I think you owed us more than that. You owed us decency. The fact that you saved your attack for TV only completes our portrait of you as a rat."
The theory that newspapers are all run -- and mostly...
