Return of the Shrew

That man is a lunatic. Truly.

Are Co-Publishers Wendy McCaw and Arthur von Wiesenberger out of touch to think it benefits the Santa Barbara News-Press to put the column out over a national wire?

Wow! I did not know I started a cabal... me an 800 to 1000 of my friends at the People's Rally, held on 18th July, to Restore the News-Press and build back The Wall between opinion and news. And those were just the people who could get down to DeLaGuerra Plaza in the heat and humidity that day at noon.

While stuck in an airport yesterday (Friday, 04 Aug.2006), returning from summer holiday in Minnesota no less(!), I got a call from an unnerved friend who said both me and my wife Cathy were (apparently) critized by the caustic keyboard of the NewsPress editorialist.

I do not quite understand what the criticism is about in that Friday editorial, so someone please write here to explain what the "bias" and "disingenuousness" have been and how the "rival media" (i.e., everyone else) have been ignoring this alleged "ethical conflict".

But I do appreciate the em-dashes for emphasis about me in that editorial, as well as the correct spelling of our names for a change by that author. Also good to know that he watches community-access cable TV, channel 17.

And I wonder why "News-Press management" keeps criticizing my wife. Criticizing me I can understand, as the messenger of an Inconvenient Truth is an easy target.

I hope Wendy's lawyers and publicist are also advising her about the risks streaming from Armstrong's poison pen.....he outdid his own record of groundless accusations and slander yesterday..........between that, and the caustic "observations" spewing from Laura Schlesinger's "columns" Wendy and Arthur seem to be the engineers of a dangerously runaway train....I can't WAIT for the Vanity Fair story to hit....

Hey dip shit why do you put links in your artical that requires me to subscribe to the News-Rag-on-line? Also why do you insist on giving this dull tool of a pawn Travis the spot light? Oh wait I know it creates interest in selling the ad space for next weeks Indy! In all honest you are in the same bed as any other newspaper tump your chest and then present your ass to sell ad space.

Travis A. needs to take his own inventory.

He is reading and saving the email messages of the News-Press staff who have departed. This is yet another example of the downward slippery sliding slope of failing journalistic ethics there, because the content of those email messages now appears in published News-Press editorials.

As reported by the Independent and NOT denied by the Ampersand attorney, the computers of the News-Press staff who resigned and/or were pushed out were confiscated by Ampersand and the email messages saved on those computers are now being reviewed by Travis A. and Millstein the cabal of attorneys looking for anything to justify more harassment against the remaining staff and former staff.

Thus, email messages to those reporters and editors, which one would think are confidential under the traditional tenants of journalism where a source can remain confidential and protected, now are no longer confidential and anything juicy now is held by the now very paranoid Travis A., ready for his next editorial hissy fit.

Travis A. wrote in his own shrill editorial that he read the "hang in there" email message that was sent by a Los Angeles Times editor to a now-departed News-Press editor.

The remaining News-Press staff now need to delete, permanently delete, everything, and do their work off a web-based email system.

Strong-Arm Travis-Tee
Modern psychiatric diagnostic literature describes paranoid personality disorder as being characterized by a distrust of others and a constant suspicion of sinister motives by people who surround the individual…(GIVE ME A “C”). Common characteristic among those who grace the walls of the hallowed Paranoid Hall of Fame are as follows:
The individual persistently bears grudges, (i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or slights), … (GIVE ME AN “A”). The individual suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him… (GIVE ME A “B”). Such individuals are often emotionally detached…(GIVE ME AN “A”). Also common to such individuals is that they tend to drive people away from them and as a result have few friends. Finding themselves with few friends, these punished souls see the lack of friends as further evidence of a conspiracy against them which ultimately a very lonely life… (GIVE ME AN “L”)
What’s that spell? I said, WHAT’S THAT SPELL???? Yes Travis, that spells CABAL.
--Pugh Litzer

Travis's latest rant made me smile. Not in the "go get 'em, Travey" way I'm sure it made his partner in crime Gary Earle smile, but more in a "just when you thought the party was over" sort of way.

All he has done at this point is confirmed how thoroghly pathetic the NP has become and how much of an immature, petty, unrealistic, unethical journalist he really is, and what a poor excuse for a human he is, or has become.

This also confirms that the NP has no intention whatsoever of redeeming itself to the community. If they were serious about that, they would take the money they're spending on hiring people like Dr. Laura, and hire a couple of independent thinkers (perhaps some of those listed in Travesty's rant?) and form a truly independent editorial board and create wholly representative and transparent Op/Ed and LTTE pages.

One can only hope...

Dear "GiveMeF'inBreak" (aka "dip-shit"):
You can read the entire editorial here, as The Wendy's brilliant new Huff-N-Puff PR firm released it in its entirety to Business Wire so that all the world can see just how crazy Travis is and what a joke the SBNP has become:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site...

... or simply click on the highlighted word "article" in the above article to see Mr. Armstrong's thesis.

--oh how I love helping the needy, virtually

Check out the picture of the Wendy and the Arther on the "peeps" slide show. The big "a" it seems like his drinks pink and the big"w" likes her martinis with two olives...bahahah

Steve Lopez, a punchy columnist for Los Angeles Times, wrote this today:

"Now McCaw is looking for a new editor at a salary of up to $200,000, and I thought about applying before quickly coming to my senses. I have my standards."

Now that Travisty Factswrong claims he no longer is the combined publisher-editor, just who is the chief editor for News-Press anymore? Seems like no one, considering how thin and lacking of any original articles have been published during the past 3 weeks.

Hey Street...what section in the LA Times is the Lopez article? I can not seem to find it in today's paper.

July 30th, entitled "Unreal Estate Is More Like It"
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-...

Can search at their web site. This column that day mainly was about his junket to Santa Barbara and the price of real estate. But it is the first published account of the salary advertised for the new Exec. Editor for News-Press.
But again, why but for the money would any actual news professional accept that job considering why the 13 other veteran reporters and editors resigned? They left for a reason. What has changed since then?

I finally read the infamous editorial that inspired this Return of the Shrew.

Obviously editorializing while drunk.

Thanks Street...now I remember the column you referred to; also had him learning to surf - but it was written a week ago, not today. ;0

The other day a friend of mine visiting from Canada was chatting about some local politician caught with his "hand in the cookie jar" of corruption, and how the community had literally tarred and feathered him. My friend said that is still common in Canada and the UK when a public figure gets busted doing something corrupt or offensive. I'm not sure they don't use honey or some substance other than tar, but...

...wouldn't it be nice to see an article and photo in the Independent of our man Travesty covered with honey (or perhaps a honey-dogshit mix) and then covered with feathers?

I wonder if the News-Supress would cover it at all?

Here's a song recorded locally just for Wendy & Co.

http://www.esnips.com/web/guildedtruthsO...

Fun.