re: Don't think this is going to age well. LOL

This has nothing to do with the current a-hole columnist, but since we’ve talking about what used to be The Birmingham News, just found out that their longtime outdoor columnist, Mike Bolton, Clyde’s son, died today. (Clyde is still with us, he will be 89 this year.) Mike was a good guy and a Bama graduate, interned in the SID office.

Damn I forgot about Kausler. I only spoke to him maybe once or twice. He kind of kept to himself.

I just found the column that got him in trouble and read it again. He tried to say he wasn’t saying Coach Bryant should retire, and someone from another part of the country who read it might agree with him, but there’s no way any Bama fan was going to read it any other way.

Plus it was as snarky as you would expect from someone who was only a couple of years out of college. And I blame The News for hiring someone that inexperienced to be the Alabama beat writer.

But as best I can remember, The News had gotten this bug in their saddle about hiring graduates of Missouri’s journalism school, which had the reputation of being the best J school in the country (I wouldn’t know, I never took a journalism course, I learned the trade on the job by actually doing it), and Kausler was like tops in his class. I think Scarbinsky went to Missouri too.

Kausler supposedly said The News told him to treat Coach Bryant like everyone else, and that’s just silly. Someone of that stature, you don’t want to genuflect before him, sometimes you might have to do something difficult because that’s part of the job, you just need to be fair and respectful. But you can’t treat him like anyone else because he’s not like everyone else.

I don’t even remember Kausler anymore but I clearly recall the disrespectful columns written by Finebaum. He started calling Coach Bryant “the Old Man” and everytime he did that I wanted to slap the MF.
Stopped reading his newspaper too.

Nondescriptive title and blind link to Goodman article. C’mon bro.

He's Scarbinski lite except he know less about sports and is less clever than Scarb.

Advance Publications out of the northeast has plenty of money and they own all the major newspapers in Alabama. They will lose money in order to get their message out, but you already knew that.

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They will lose money in order to get their message out, but you already knew that.

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It's really just a joke. If there was some 70s sitcom, former child actor living in Oregon that bashed Trump, Al.commie would have an article about it. They don't even remotely try to appear halfway unbiased with what they cherry pick off the wire services to publish...and their opinion writers are all ignorant asses. Might as well be funded by the DNC.

I'm not clicking blind links. That's just poor posting technique..

I worked in sales management for multiple newspapers (including a time with the ones in Birmingham) for 1/2 my career. I got out a few years before they began closing their doors.

It was mainly Finebaum for the Post Herald and Scars. for The News that caused the most ire - but they helped to sell papers - which I liked. I always thought Scars was a much better writer than most. I’d see them in the old building, more so Scars than Finebaum, and they were friendly.

The new ones - ugh. I saw them (mainly the bald, glasses wearing dude who beats up on all conservatives) once at a place on the Southside (it was one of those bowling pin places - I don’t think it lasted long), but I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a bunch of stuck-up, me-me-me, self-serving group in all my life. Heard things like: “Oh my I didn’t make a strike? Maybe I should write an article about it. Har har har.” Ugh.

Anyway, saw someone mention Mike Bolton passing away. I remember he did many outdoor columns. I saw his father in Trussville about a decade or so ago.