Heather Mallick
Saturday, December 17th, 2005[this post was retrieved from Google, complete with all its comments]
Saturday morning isn’t Saturday morning anymore since Heather Mallick resigned, or was fired from, The Globe and Mail.Heather wrote “As If”, an ascerbic progressive column in which she did not mince her words. She was a useful and refreshing counterbalance against far right columnists such as Margaret Wente. I agreed with Heather on almost everything (but no, not on her anti SUV column).Heather told me she resigned in protest over an article that she wanted pulled, that the editor refused to pull. But while since she tells me so that is no doubt what happened, there is some rumour that the Globe may have hastened Heather’s departure, perhaps blaming her for using company email to criticise another columnist. If that is true, then shame on the Globe. The one voice of reason that did not mince words and called things the way I think they are (I greatly admired Heather’s courage in criticising everyone from the American government to local idiots) will be sorely missed.And I think the Globe owes us an explanation that is better than just silence, and emails that now bounce with the simple sentence:
Saturday morning isn’t Saturday morning anymore since Heather Mallick resigned, or was fired from, The Globe and Mail.Heather wrote “As If”, an ascerbic progressive column in which she did not mince her words. She was a useful and refreshing counterbalance against far right columnists such as Margaret Wente. I agreed with Heather on almost everything (but no, not on her anti SUV column).Heather told me she resigned in protest over an article that she wanted pulled, that the editor refused to pull. But while since she tells me so that is no doubt what happened, there is some rumour that the Globe may have hastened Heather’s departure, perhaps blaming her for using company email to criticise another columnist. If that is true, then shame on the Globe. The one voice of reason that did not mince words and called things the way I think they are (I greatly admired Heather’s courage in criticising everyone from the American government to local idiots) will be sorely missed.And I think the Globe owes us an explanation that is better than just silence, and emails that now bounce with the simple sentence:
Heather Mallick is no longer employed with The Globe and Mail.
Great. Since you’ve ruined my Saturday morning, Globe, perhaps you could at least tell me more about what happened.
