A lot of folks post interesting comments on our website, both in response to–and, in some cases updating–our stories.

Yesterday afternoon, we noticed a comment from someone called Former Journo, in response to Dave Wielenga’s recent Nice Guy Finishes, At Last.

Dave’s piece examined now semi-retired Press-Telegram columnist Tom Hennessy’s career–but it also took a rather gritty look at how the P-T is faring now that its editors must work closely with Daily Breeze editor Phillip Sanfield.

Perhaps the piece’s most piquant moment was one in which Sanfield decided to end a telephone conversation with Wielenga by simply hanging up. That was totally awesome.

Former Journo wrote us to say in part, “I can confirm that the Daily Breeze editor is running the show at the P-T. His idea of ‘working as a group’ means that the on-site P-T editors get to ’suggest’ via e-mail what stories to cover, play up, put on the front page, etc.”

But apparently FJ was wrong about Sanfield running the P-T over a DSL line (or perhaps a complex system of pneumatic tubes). As I understand it, that isn’t the case; P-T editors still decide amongst themselves what will go in the next day’s paper.

So there you go. Thanks for reading us, and let the brickbats fly.

But if you want more P-T debunking than I’m offering here, there’s a neat website that Kevin Roderick over at LAObserved.com mentioned a week or so ago.

It’s the Stress-Telegram, a website dating at least to November, and according to the front page, it offers “the latest news on the Guild’s contract negotiations … MediaNews company gossip and other important media related stuff … .”

Among recent Stress-Telegram news, there’s word that one of the P-T’s recent star hires, Advertising Director Francesca Lewis–who left the position of President of Advertising at the Modesto Bee to come here–has left the P-T after less than three months on the job.

I’m not sure how they do it in upper management, but when I was at the P-T, three months was a trial work period for a new reporter–and I knew one reporter who was actually laid off from the P-T due to budget cuts in pretty much that three-month time slot.

P-T management, which had brought that person in with the usual amount of fanfare–not much–found them a job with the San Bernardino Sun, another MediaNews outpost.

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