Steve Budihas
Okay, I suppose some of you are wondering why I've been strangely silent about The Morning Call's Vice President of Human Resources Steve Budihas bailing out for greener pastures a couple of weeks ago. I may have been silent here on my blog, but believe me, I have certainly been celebrating in private. Doesn't it always figure, though, that the evil ones can fall in a vat of feces and climb out smelling like a rose? He presided over the firing of nearly half the staff of the Call, then when the paper is going under in that same vat, he walks away into a better job somewhere else. Somehow the justice of that escapes me.
But alas! The nemesis of the Allentown newspaper industry is gone. Let us be thankful. Hallelujah!
Unfortunately, it's almost too late to be encouraged by this wonderful news. The Call as it once was is also gone. There is no longer a newspaper in the Lehigh Valley. Most of the people who gave a shit about the paper are on the unemployment lines. I guess that's why I've been silent. It just all seems sort of anticlimactic, doesn't it?