The Hotlanta outpost of the Creative Loafing brand has fired its long-time editor as he dared to question corporate bigwigs on cuts to the editorial side of the operation. Atlanta Magazine has all the gory details, among them the reaction of John Sugg, the longtime CL writer whose work often appeared in the Charlotte edition.
“The more important thing is that Creative Loafing at this point in time is suffering from incredibly bad management — not just because of the financial condition, or the national economy, or the state of newspapers. People who don’t know what they’re doing are running the place. That’s the basic problem,” Sugg tells the magazine.
The problem is company-wide Sugg adds. “Current Creative Loafing management has destroyed good journalistic voices in all of the cities, especially the cities where they have the biggest papers, papers that were once respected.”
Not a peep out of the local CL camp that I have seen or heard. Guess they must be fine with the changes. Or scared.
