tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post694693719626723346..comments2023-11-02T05:46:17.571-07:00Comments on QuantumDice: Turning the page ...Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-87848799211500367412008-12-04T09:26:00.000-08:002008-12-04T09:26:00.000-08:00The very, very frightening thing about Howard Weav...The very, very frightening thing about Howard Weaver leaving McClatchy is that, agree with him or not, he is the only true visionary within McClatchy's executive ranks.<br><br>He was the only one focused on the positive changes impacting our fair trade and how all these things can be used to make us better in the long run (tho sometimes I must confess, I still thought he was full of it).<br><br>With him gone I fear our fate will fall to people who have no understanding of the changes in our industry, who fear the future and only see properties and FTEs where Howard saw newspapers and the people who make them.<br><br>This is a loss.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-63409142498197893632008-12-04T09:30:00.000-08:002008-12-04T09:30:00.000-08:00Whoa. McClatchy will miss you. I will be watching ...Whoa. McClatchy will miss you. I will be watching to see your next big thing...and I don't mean splitting that mean log with one fell swoop o' the axe!! -Scott McMurrenScott McMurrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903491444878100560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-7225914300353058822008-12-04T09:42:00.000-08:002008-12-04T09:42:00.000-08:00the biggest rats are always the first to abandon a...the biggest rats are always the first to abandon a sinking ship. you boy gary will be right behind you I'm sure with his golden parachute.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-73551802584012290462008-12-04T09:45:00.000-08:002008-12-04T09:45:00.000-08:00Howard, I find your "farewell speech" la...Howard, I find your "farewell speech" laughable. Especially after reading this about 30 minutes ago... <br><br>www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003918781Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-51271625235007089302008-12-04T09:53:00.000-08:002008-12-04T09:53:00.000-08:00You will be greatly missed.You will be greatly missed.5x5http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823393873112943441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-62493730846661973942008-12-04T09:54:00.000-08:002008-12-04T09:54:00.000-08:00Best of luck and I hope you keep writing on media ...Best of luck and I hope you keep writing on media and newspapers. We need your thoughts.JackDhttp://www.jacklail.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-57417977705175389242008-12-04T10:02:00.000-08:002008-12-04T10:02:00.000-08:00Dang.Richard MurphyDang.<br>Richard MurphyRichard Murphyadn.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-37914757866356679412008-12-04T10:44:00.000-08:002008-12-04T10:44:00.000-08:00Sad to see you go Howard. Another chapter is just ...Sad to see you go Howard. Another chapter is just a turn of the page. Maybe Alaska (CA?) Advocate online? Good place to park the column. I'd tune in.Mike N.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-64348266933002485582008-12-04T11:03:00.000-08:002008-12-04T11:03:00.000-08:00Congratulations - and don't let pinheads like ...Congratulations - and don't let pinheads like Kevin Gregory run down what has been a great career.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-21237692322042433452008-12-04T11:41:34.255-08:002008-12-04T11:41:34.255-08:00Anonymous 945: Glad to provide a laugh; I', gu...Anonymous 945: Glad to provide a laugh; I', guessing you need some in your life.<br><br>And BTW, my offer to bet a grand on the outcome is still open. Let's see your money, tough guy.Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08379598516764590842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-55808152988256770742008-12-04T11:45:00.000-08:002008-12-04T11:45:00.000-08:00Hey Howard, Best to you and Barb. Hope your road t...Hey Howard,<br> Best to you and Barb. Hope your road trips bring you back North once in a while. Regards and congrats on a graceful exit.<br>John GreelyJohn Greelyaasb.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-25905042628337710502008-12-04T12:09:00.000-08:002008-12-04T12:09:00.000-08:00As much as I can't imagine newspapers without ...As much as I can't imagine newspapers without you, Howard, I know that whatever you do you're going to be writing hard and dying free. <br><br>Thank you for your example, enthusiasm and encouragement (and all those aphorisms that still knock around in my head).Mary Engelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-8423608710277728962008-12-04T12:25:00.000-08:002008-12-04T12:25:00.000-08:00Howard,Thanks for the many (25) years of inspirati...Howard,<br>Thanks for the many (25) years of inspiration, encouragement and the freedom to make mistakes. I reached farther in my career than I thought possible.<br>I'm confident we can keep the coals of the "tribal fire" burning during these tough times. You showed us how.<br>My best to you and Barb,<br>Pam D-SPammyzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00723329095174055383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-63537267646226623052008-12-04T12:39:00.000-08:002008-12-04T12:39:00.000-08:00Sad for McClatchy... great for the industry, as yo...Sad for McClatchy... great for the industry, as you focus your energies, experience and talent on saving it.Robert Younghttp://blog.publish2.com/byline/#robert-youngnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-61866630289946589882008-12-04T13:11:00.000-08:002008-12-04T13:11:00.000-08:00Thank you, Howard, for not moving out to the newsr...Thank you, Howard, for not moving out to the newsroom or I'd have spent at least another 5-6 years slaving away to support your leadership. (I'm enjoying retirement!)<br>You probably never heard your mentor, Frank McCulloch, comment on the idea of Kent Pollock moving to Anchorage as City Editor: "Howard Weaver will eat him alive." <br>One more thing: I'll wager McClatchy DROPS print within a year, ala the Christian Science Monitor. Sad for journalism, bad for Democracy.<br>Dick TracyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-69819621728509224802008-12-04T13:30:00.000-08:002008-12-04T13:30:00.000-08:00Howard, thanks for a remarkable career. You’ve bee...Howard, thanks for a remarkable career. You’ve been an inspiration and a major force for journalists — and journalism — in Alaska and the nation. That will never change.<br><br>Are you leaving something unsaid in your message? I might have been able to hazard a guess at one time, but not now, not with the span of years and distance. I’ll accept your words.<br><br>We under siege, newspapers and McClatchy. You may be willing to wager a thousand bucks, but no one knows how this will end, whether it will be like Leningrad, or whether it will be the Alamo or Masada; whether we will emerge wounded, exhausted, but alive and ready to rebuild, or whether it will be a massacre. You are one of the key architects of our battle plan. If it was the right plan is immaterial now — I certainly bought into it, and still today think it was the correct course. But implementing the strategies requires the best, the brightest and the energetic. Adapting the strategies to a constantly shifting environment demands continuing creativity. All this while our comrades are picked off and the ground we hold shrinks. I am sorry you’re seeking asylum elsewhere, but understand this is not for everyone. My best to Barb.<br><br>-- RichRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048535423839854703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-75846405639464601302008-12-04T13:42:00.000-08:002008-12-04T13:42:00.000-08:00Howard, thanks for a remarkable career. You’ve bee...Howard, thanks for a remarkable career. You’ve been an inspiration and a major force for journalists — and journalism — in Alaska and the nation. That will never change.<br><br>Are you leaving something unsaid in your message? I might have been able to hazard a guess at one time, but not now, not with the span of years and distance. I’ll accept your words.<br><br>We under siege, newspapers and McClatchy. You may be willing to wager a thousand bucks, but no one knows how this will end, whether it will be like Leningrad, or whether it will be the Alamo or Masada; whether we will emerge wounded, exhausted, but alive and ready to rebuild, or whether it will be a massacre. You are one of the key architects of our battle plan. If it was the right plan is immaterial now — I certainly bought into it, and still today think it was the correct course. But implementing the strategies requires the best, the brightest and the energetic. Adapting the strategies to a constantly shifting environment demands continuing creativity. All this while our comrades are picked off and the ground we hold shrinks. I am sorry you’re seeking asylum elsewhere, but understand this is not for everyone. My best to Barb.<br><br>-- Rich MauerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-64543748261826721342008-12-04T13:49:00.000-08:002008-12-04T13:49:00.000-08:00One fewer hand working at the ice house.One fewer hand working at the ice house.MrEddnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-73698459711763166892008-12-04T14:36:00.000-08:002008-12-04T14:36:00.000-08:00Howard -This is a tremendous loss for McClatchy, b...Howard -This is a tremendous loss for McClatchy, but a new chapter of adventures for you and Barbara. Best to you both- and thanks for your cool head and your passionate heart for journalism during some good years in Tacoma. -Betsy BrennerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-32868959780146698122008-12-04T15:04:00.000-08:002008-12-04T15:04:00.000-08:00Howard, There is a reason good journalism is expen...Howard, There is a reason good journalism is expensive, "because it is worth it" to quote an old joke. There is something timeless and gallant about a buying and reading a newspaper. I will never be without my "morning friendly" in good news and bad, where ever I am. I am lucky that I moved to a city with a newspaper of such quality as the Bee.<br><br>Ross GoodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-35173705531481505812008-12-04T15:16:00.000-08:002008-12-04T15:16:00.000-08:00It'd be nice to have an accurate cystal ball I...It'd be nice to have an accurate cystal ball I guess. Then we could have forseen the current national economic crisis forthcoming, and rushed to take our retirement and 401K's out beforehand and stuffed the money in our mattresses. Maybe. Newspapers would have known long ago how fast the globe would become overtaken by cyber print, renown book publishing companies that today announced layoffs or closings maybe would have been ale to avoid their dire straits, local television stations could have forseen the emerging 24 hour cable news and adjusted accordingly, maybe. <br><br>Howard, you've put in your time with your heart on the table, and you do have heart. Only the perfect and accurate crystal ball could predict the present circumstances that surround all of us, inside and outside the newsrooms. <br><br>But there is one certainty that we don't need a crystal ball for that looms inevitably on all of us regardless of time, status, or present circumstances. Birth has it's opposite, we call it death. You experienced death's life-changing effects with your brother. Leaving a space in your heart that can not and will not be replaced. Ever. <br><br>But Life has no opposite, there is none. <br><br>You are not abandoning anyone, you are not responsible for the lack of the crystal ball, and you will not be invisible. Your heart will always be on the table. <br><br>Your decision is to spend Life from this point on with your wife and yourself. It is wise decision.<br><br>Your friend,<br>Carl (lebowski) MilesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-52075990491223056242008-12-04T16:06:00.000-08:002008-12-04T16:06:00.000-08:00Howard, McClatchy has been blessed to have your co...Howard, McClatchy has been blessed to have your commitment, your professional gift and your heart for all these years. You will be missed. I hope you keep Etaoin Shrdlu alive. And, really, there IS life after newspapering. So go out and spend a little more time at that telescope of yours!Jeff Raimundohttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1098620257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-80917080743408323292008-12-04T16:26:00.000-08:002008-12-04T16:26:00.000-08:00Howard, old journalists never die...they write boo...Howard, old journalists never die...they write books.<br>Sorry to hear about the passing of your brother, a fine lad. This is the first I have heard of this sad event.<br>Regards,<br>StapletonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-76435064850556075612008-12-04T16:40:00.000-08:002008-12-04T16:40:00.000-08:00"It's the unconquerable soul of man, and ..."It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory." - George S. Patton<br><br>Howard- thanks for sharing just a little bit of your soul, for a cause that is both needed and just. It's been an honor to work with you. Best of luck on the next battlefield.<br><br>- Bruce MeissnerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312183777522008540.post-53191025365752294522008-12-04T16:44:00.000-08:002008-12-04T16:44:00.000-08:00Howard -- For a change I am at a loss for words (w...Howard -- For a change I am at a loss for words (well, almost). Thanks for your friendship, your support of my work, your challenges to me and colleagues, your hard work, and dedication to this great craft and especially to public service. May you and Barb have many wonderful adventures ahead and I hope to see you on one coast or the other before too long. And may your voice not stay silent.<br>-- JimThe Rev. James Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03484680361356703398noreply@blogger.com