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Re: Laid off, now what?

That hits close to home for those of us in Southern California who went through the same process with the San Diego U-T, and I went through it with my local paper, the Riverside Press-Enterprise. Our separation here in SoCal was based on those papers archiving and reselling our work without our permission and with no recompense for it, and asking us then to sign all rights contracts or leave.

In my case the garden editor called me several times afterward about various questions and while I was polite, I declined to help her. And to add insult to injury, for some weeks after I was canned, the paper still ran a tag line advertising my column, exhorting readers to read all about  growing flowers, in my column, Flower Power. I asked them to remove that since they were no longer buying the column and they apologized.

My  brother lives in Boise and I always made a point of reading your column when I was up there.

But there's life after getting the boot. Believe me--there are propbably better things out there than The Statesman.


Gerald Burke
Freelance Writer
Gardening and Travel 
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