Fear and Loathing at the 'Daily News'
Those compassionate soldiers at the Post feel for their rival army over at the News, today revealing that in addition to the "purge of employees hired by or associated with former Daily News President Les Goodstein," (including flack Donna Dees, canned yesterday), the organization has become a theater of terror where a pledge of fealty to EIC Martin Dunn is now a job requirement. "Adding to frayed nerves is word that management is monitoring all e-mail to see who's corresponding with News Corp. or The Post. Some News staffers also fear their phones are tapped."
Tapped phones? Monitored e-mails? What could be the cause of all this paranoia? And what else is going on over there? A source of ours offers further detail:
Rumor has it that Mort had his security guy launch a full investigation into who breached security at the newspaper by leaking the "blogger" policy memo to Gawker. Mort allegedly hates Gawker even more than he hates Rupert Murdoch.
We can't verify that any of this is true, of course. But just in case, Dawn and Llloyd? You might want to start sending us stuff from your gmail accounts.
