Whether Jess and Eddie are still carrying on or not (and who cares, except Paul Bucher and Susan Flynn?), it's good to see that both are being treated fairly by their employers.
Ed Flynn is Milwaukee's chief of police, and his bosses, the mayor and the Fire and Police Commission, say they're sticking with him, affair or no affair, because he has been reducing crime in Milwaukee. Fair enough.
Meanwhile, Jessica McBride is a lecturer on journalism ethics and other matters at UW-Milwaukee's journalism department, whose executive committee recently voted 3-2 to give her what amounts to permanent status there. Presumably, that's because she has been reducing journalism ethics in Milwaukee. Fair's fair.
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Sykes had a lot of nerve running this story today for a full hour. Couldn't listen to all of it but wonder whether or not anyone queried Chas on his own striped marital history, what with leaving two wives and marrying for a third time. Remember that he was down on the beach in Shorewood with the babe who would be Wife #3 while the Supreme Court Justice was home taking care of the kids. Doesn't this make him just like Flynn and Wife #3 just like Ms. McBride? As for Bucher, what did he expect? What he did to his wife, Ms. McBride did to him!
ReplyDeleteXoff is a more-on. Please confine your comments to... nothing. We'll all be better for it. Now, where did I leave my spell check.
ReplyDeleteI listened to much of this on Sykes yesterday. One notable moment was when Sykes said he felt sorry for the Bucher-McBride children. Almost as galling is that Sykes and the news department deliberately avoided disclosing that McBride was just a while back an employee of theirs.
ReplyDeleteHey Bill, please give us your journalistic judgment on this:
ReplyDeleteBice reports Bucher represented his wife in the proceedings, which based on the vote we can assume were choppier than usual. Left unsaid is that legal representation at this stage is highly irregular. What's more, the well-connected attorney - who could not only threaten a protracted legal battle but also UW funding at its source - is essentially seeking a stable source of alimony payments, irrespective of his enduring "love" for Lois Lame.
So. Did Bice a) simply latch on to the sexy because its easier to write and read or b) whiff on the Bucher angle because it's dangerous and/or difficult (impossible?) to verify?
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ReplyDeleteCharlie, we realize you feel a little nervous with all this talk of adultery and your history of it, but you really shouldn't use language like that.
ReplyDeleteAlso amazing was Chuck Sykes wetting his pants about the new hard-line Archbishop, who Chuck expects to start excoriating the Dem Catholic politicians who don't tow the Church's line. Fine when the subject is abortion or stem cell research but trouble big time for Chuck when the topic turns (as it appropriately should) to marital fidelity. Chuck let the commentary on that post run on until the spotlight turned to his zipper problem, which is significant. Chuck left two wives and two sets of kids for his roll on the beach with Wife #3.
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