Word: jim
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...attorney telling him. ?But the Herald will support you,? the attorney added. ?Absolutely, absolutely,? echoed the publisher, DeFede recalls. Diaz, however, says the taping was such a critical issue that no such blanket support was possible. He denies such a promise was made. ?What we told him is 'Jim, we need to get you your own attorney'?, and that the Herald would support him when it came to paying for legal advice. Diaz also denies that he signed off on DeFede doing what he did next: transcribing the tape. ?He must be remembering incorrectly,? says Diaz...
...Ridder newspapers, Fiedler says. ?Not within Knight Ridder is there a precedent for somebody coming forward saying I have done wrong and I did it on purpose,? he says. From Fiedler's vantage point, DeFede had committed an unpardonable journalistic sin that would have ramifications years in the future. ?Jim had committed a major breach of trust knowingly with a source in the news,? he says ?This was almost certain to come out publicly.? That's when they decided they should fire DeFede...
...human resources department was there. I'm sitting in this darkened outer office. They had turned out all the lights because it's late.? When he finally got to see the publisher, he says, ?I looked at Jesus and said, ?Are you firing me?' He said, ?Yes, Jim. I think...
...small segment of our readership that may have been an issue,? Fiedler says. ?An equal or larger group cheered him on. This is what we paid Jim to do, to provoke discussion that forced others to think about their position. Jim did exactly what I would want any good columnist to do. He certainly exceeded any expectations. How the community saw Jim had nothing to do with this decision. What mattered to me was how anyone dealing with the Herald would view this a year or two from...
...questions of credibility and this might be a case where newspaper executives, perhaps with good intentions, worried about the credibility of their product and overreacted.? ?The whole thing is very surreal,? says Linda Robertson, an award winning sports columnist at the Herald. ?People have done things much worse than Jim DeFede and they are still working...