Comments on: Traveling in style with David Copley http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:51:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John Stump http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-17456 John Stump Fri, 08 May 2009 21:46:39 +0000 http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-17456 Scrutiny needed Mayor must take hard look at contracting chief 2:00 a.m. May 8, 2009 Here the UT goes again! The UT needs a diversion from the truth that it can not manage a newspaper; so it creates a non story about something that a black man did not do in a place long ago and far away. UT how about writing an editorial apologizing for failing as a newspaper and an employer? Maybe if the Owner had spent more time watching the newspaper store and less time yachting in the Mediterranean the newspaper would be worth more Scrutiny. All the best John Stump Scrutiny needed
Mayor must take hard look at contracting chief
2:00 a.m. May 8, 2009

Here the UT goes again! The UT needs a diversion from the truth that it can not manage a newspaper; so it creates a non story about something that a black man did not do in a place long ago and far away. UT how about writing an editorial apologizing for failing as a newspaper and an employer? Maybe if the Owner had spent more time watching the newspaper store and less time yachting in the Mediterranean the newspaper would be worth more Scrutiny.

All the best

John Stump

]]> By: David Colton http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-14669 David Colton Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:17:39 +0000 http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-14669 My wife and I are lifelong film buffs. We always valued David Elliot's reviews, even when we disagreed with them. Film criticism gains value to readers if they know the critic so they can compare that critic's taste and criteria for judgment with their own. To illustrate, David Elliot doesn't care for comedy or Sci-fi fantasy as much as we do, so we could factor that into his panning of those films. On a more positive note, like us, David doesn't mind a film taking the better part of two hours carefully developing plot and character, and he and we value cinematography. For serious dramatic and action films, we found his criticism and recommendations right on. Quality and value sell newspapers. If the U-T continues its general decline in both, I'll switch to the LA Times (also declining in quality), or the NY times, or wean myself off of a lifetime morning newspaper habit. My wife and I are lifelong film buffs. We always valued David Elliot’s reviews, even when we disagreed with them.

Film criticism gains value to readers if they know the critic so they can compare that critic’s taste and criteria for judgment with their own. To illustrate, David Elliot doesn’t care for comedy or Sci-fi fantasy as much as we do, so we could factor that into his panning of those films. On a more positive note, like us, David doesn’t mind a film taking the better part of two hours carefully developing plot and character, and he and we value cinematography. For serious dramatic and action films, we found his criticism and recommendations right on.

Quality and value sell newspapers. If the U-T continues its general decline in both, I’ll switch to the LA Times (also declining in quality), or the NY times, or wean myself off of a lifetime morning newspaper habit.

]]> By: Elliott Fan http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-14564 Elliott Fan Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:41:58 +0000 http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-14564 I've been missing David Elliott tremendously but hadn't had time to check on his whereabouts other than to painfully notice his absence in the Union Tribune. How very sad to learn he'd been let go - he was one of the best film critics ever - akin to beloved Gene Siskel in my estimation. What a loss to our local San Diego film culture...... I’ve been missing David Elliott tremendously but hadn’t had time to check on his whereabouts other than to painfully notice his absence in the Union Tribune. How very sad to learn he’d been let go – he was one of the best film critics ever – akin to beloved Gene Siskel in my estimation. What a loss to our local San Diego film culture……

]]> By: Nick http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-14052 Nick Thu, 22 May 2008 16:05:07 +0000 http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-14052 Amen... hopefully that blob Copley will grow several more chins & suffocate. Amen… hopefully that blob Copley will grow several more chins & suffocate.

]]> By: Barbara http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-13424 Barbara Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:35:03 +0000 http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-13424 I had just sent an email to the Union Tribune asking where David Elliot was when I came upon an article on the internet by Scott Marks saying that Elliott was terminated by the newspaper. His column was one of the few things that the paper had going for itself. I trusted his reviews...what clinched it for me was that he was not taken in by Pan's Labyrinth...all the glowing reviews it got from other critics....he didn't give it the 4 stars everyone else gave it. I saw the movie and agreed with him.....very depressing...good graphics. I am a fan of his. The paper doesn't have any substance to it anyway....now there is no reason to subscribe to it. I had just sent an email to the Union Tribune asking where David Elliot was when I came upon an article on the internet by Scott Marks saying that Elliott was terminated by the newspaper. His column was one of the few things that the paper had going for itself. I trusted his reviews…what clinched it for me was that he was not taken in by Pan’s Labyrinth…all the glowing reviews it got from other critics….he didn’t give it the 4 stars everyone else gave it. I saw the movie and agreed with him…..very depressing…good graphics. I am a fan of his. The paper doesn’t have any substance to it anyway….now there is no reason to subscribe to it.

]]> By: Kiki http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-13317 Kiki Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:35:56 +0000 http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-13317 J'mapelle "speechless." I'd love to see continued coverage of these layoffs and the circumstances surrounding and afterward... Does it really make sense to get rid of your most experienced and well-known writers in order to save money? I'm imagining it has the opposite effect (less reason to keep your sub when the quality retreats even further). Blech! J’mapelle “speechless.” I’d love to see continued coverage of these layoffs and the circumstances surrounding and afterward… Does it really make sense to get rid of your most experienced and well-known writers in order to save money? I’m imagining it has the opposite effect (less reason to keep your sub when the quality retreats even further). Blech!

]]> By: Anonymous http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-13215 Anonymous Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:19:27 +0000 http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-13215 Ah, hem! The Richard Cramer David Copley dined with is formerly of La Jolla and the Copley Press board. He is an expatriate because of a tax lien from the Internal Revenue Service. In other words, he's a fugitive from justice! So reported by the Reader about a year ago. Ah, hem! The Richard Cramer David Copley dined with is formerly of La Jolla and the Copley Press board. He is an expatriate because of a tax lien from the Internal Revenue Service. In other words, he’s a fugitive from justice! So reported by the Reader about a year ago.

]]> By: Scott Marks http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-13210 Scott Marks Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:13:39 +0000 http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/01/16/traveling-in-style-with-david-copley/#comment-13210 Isn't it amazing that someone who makes a living transferring cocktail napkin notes into a society column keeps their job while a quality critic is bounced? Truth be told, Burl rakes in upwards of $150,000 a year for basically writing 3 one-sentence paragraphs and a guest list interspersed with "Also in attendance" and "More were." Estate taxes my eye. If that pig Copley really cared about his mother's papers he'd be at his office in La Jolla, not floating his worthless ass around the Mediterranean on a boat that's larger than most people's homes. How stands the Union now, Mr. Copley? Isn’t it amazing that someone who makes a living transferring cocktail napkin notes into a society column keeps their job while a quality critic is bounced? Truth be told, Burl rakes in upwards of $150,000 a year for basically writing 3 one-sentence paragraphs and a guest list interspersed with “Also in attendance” and “More were.”

Estate taxes my eye. If that pig Copley really cared about his mother’s papers he’d be at his office in La Jolla, not floating his worthless ass around the Mediterranean on a boat that’s larger than most people’s homes. How stands the Union now, Mr. Copley?

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