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  • Breaking News, Jeff Smith gets Canned!!!!!!

    From his Facebook page.

    Jeff Smith
    This just happened this morning at 9:00 am - Source Interlink eliminated my position after 34 years of writing for Car Craft, Hot Rod, and Chevy High Performance. It was a great ride! This almost sounds like some kind of death notice - which it is not. I've made an enormous number of friends in all these years - which really means there are probably dozens of opportunities that will make themselves known as this all unfolds. I don't harbor any ill will toward Source - I look at this as opening up many more opportunities. Perhaps the worst thing is I had to give up my cell phone with all my contact information - so it may be a time before I'm fully electronically connected.
    Thanks to everyone who helped me throughout my tenure with the magazines. I really had the dream job. The only real change now s will take a slightly different path.
    Share · about an hour ago ·
    The Green Machine.
    http://s1.postimg.org/40t9i583j/mytruck.jpg

  • #2
    Did Dr. Jaime Meyer quit sending CC the checks?

    (Oh I hope that wasn't too thought provoking)

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    • #3
      Not to be critical, oh great Tubbed One, but did you really use enough exclamation points?

      I mean Our Man Smith is right up there in the General Motors pantheon with Ed Cole, Smokey, and Zora . . . . The most objective journalist in the history of man . . . What Hemingway would have been with a torque wrench and an endless supply of Chevelles . . . .

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      • #4
        Now maybe they will cover something besides red 69 Camarwhores!!!
        Real Race Cars Have THREE Pedals!

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        • #5
          SCOOP!

          TOP ELEVEN REASONS JEFF GOT CANNED FROM THE SIM CUBE HIVE

          11. He just wouldn't comply with the new SIM corporate dress code (camo shorts and flip-flops).

          10. He mistakenly asked if post-bankruptcy SIM has a retirement plan.

          9. He kept mumbling about how Viagra is a new "speed secret."

          8. Jimmy Fallon wants a new side gig.

          7. Johnny Hunkins complained that Smith was snagging too many LS "scoops."

          6. Mistakenly thought that GM Gen V "direct injection" has something to do with interns.

          5. Wanted to run an LS-powered Chevelle in Gasser/A/FX at Drag Week.

          4. Giant salary after thirty-four years cut too far into the SIM entertainment budget

          3. That 35-year-old arrest warrant from Iowa . . . .

          2. He had to point his "moment-of-silence" rug toward GM's REN CEN five times a day . . . .

          1. Someone at SIM finally read about . . . .

          Writer X (PBS): A huge publishing monolith conducts a Jack Roush-style "gong show" search for a new "Junior Assistant Special Projects Associate Editor" (ever notice how everyone at a car mag is an "editor?")

          In the first episode, the SUITS UPSTAIRS screen the hoard of on-line applications submitted by the various illiterati who all think it would be "bitchin'" to "work" for a car book (and get paid to style like e. e. cummings.)

          ("work," in the minds of the idealistic wantabe scribes, of course, means:

          --guzzling free booze mooched from product reps,

          --doing sydeshow doughnuts in handbuilt "press fleet" vehicles and rental cars,

          --snapping a few blurry digital photos at "events" across the Heartland,

          --"meeting and greeting" the t-shirt models, and

          occasionally turning in one long, hackneyed, run-on sentence of a story, before jumping ship for an industry PR rep gig)

          The least incoherent of the applicants are then initiated to the "realities" of publishing ("You want me to work 100 hours per week for WHAT!?!" "You want cream in your coffee, Mr. Editor-In-Chief?" "Sure, I can rewrite thirty manufacturer press releases before deadline." "Oh I've got a really, really fresh angle on that SBC build-up . . . .")

          Read more: http://forums.carcraft.com/70/667630...#ixzz2rv1j9Ls0

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          • #6
            Of course the real reason . . . after the 2013 PIR Show, it was clear to everyone that Smith's Chevrolet "missionary work" was fully done . . . .

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            • #7
              Who buys car magazines anymore ? ...Jeff Smith lasted so long because he mirrored the readership preference for chevrolets ....

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              • #8
                I found him on linked in. Being that long into this, accepting new, loving the old..
                he could go anywhere with cars.

                I was a boy to grow through those changes..imagine having a journalism degree since '77?

                I bet he got too valuable... like a 5 million mile trucker. A young one can work...without the fame.
                Previously boxer3main
                the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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                • #9
                  In other news, SIM was just purchased by Jeff Smith for two packs of double mint gum, and one pair of flip flops.
                  Doing it all wrong since 1966

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                  • #10
                    34 years...bummer. I remember the first article I read from him, when they did Cruisin' USA/Napa CA, one I used to go to sometimes in those days. Not exactly brilliant mechanically and made some odd mistakes but I enjoyed his research and writing. Hope things work out for him, we all have to be ready for changes these days.
                    ...

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                    • #11
                      loyalty is myth. I am sure he will land on his feet.
                      Neal

                      Drag Week 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

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                      • #12
                        Guys, about 100 people lost their jobs today. Jeff was one of them.
                        That which you manifest is before you.

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                        • #13
                          Ouch! That'll really cut into the "Big Game" party . . . .

                          Any other big names among the list of casulties?

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                          • #14
                            Look forward to seeing him on tirblo bullet

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by SpiderGearsMan View Post
                              Look forward to seeing him on tirblo bullet
                              Needs to come here...

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