Nearly a month ago, James T. Campbell, who represents literally dozens of loyal Chronicle readers, invited the unwashed masses to submit questions to Chron kingpin Jeff Cohen:
Feel free to ask anything from "Why doesn’t the Chronicle have a conservative columnist on its staff?" to "Why was it necessary to redesign the newspaper?"
I will pose your questions to Cohen and post his replies sometime during the week of September 5.
Well, that week came and went with no answers from Campbell. So did the following week. And the next one. Finally, Campbell posted a blog entry on Sept. 20, on an unrelated subject. Since then, it’s been eerily quiet.
Too quiet. That’s why I’m enlisting you, the Lone Star Times reader, to help find this man.
Be on the lookout. Campbell was last seen at 801 Texas Avenue about a week ago. Hopefully, this is just another false alarm. Campbell has been known to pull this disappearing act over and over again.
Still, information leading to Campbell’s safe return will be rewarded handsomely.
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I’m pretty sure this is the same guy who handed me a shopping cart when I entered Walmart yesterday.
He’s still in the Superdome, hiding out from the roving gangs of thugs….
This sounds like good fodder for a “Where’s Waldo?” kind of online game.
He’s out delivering papers to nonsubcribers who didn’t get their paper because of the non storm
Campbell strikes me as a good guy in an impossible situation.
Increasingly, it strikes me that the executive editorial leadership at the Chronicle simply doesn’t take the position of reader rep or media criticism at all seriously. They are thin-skinned, arrogant, and simply seem to believe that the newspaper never does wrong.
I don’t believe Campbell has any power to hold anyone to account at that newspaper, and have my doubts whether he would stick his neck out if he did have more power (cautious habits die hard). What that newspaper really needs to consider is bringing in someone from outside who can act as a highly visible public editor. By highly visible, I mean along the lines of Byron Calame (and his predecessor) at the NY Times, whose regular column doesn’t hesitate to blister NYT staff publicly when they’ve earned it.
The Chronicle executive editorial leadership really ought to be more concerned about its poor product, even if it means admitting mistakes and engaging in self criticism. Instead, they trot out Campbell Sunday to tell us how hard it is to put out a newspaper in a crisis (excuse me, but putting out the newspaper IS the job of people who work there, no?). Whatever.