Because it's the right thing to do.
That could be one of the reasons that Dave Danforth and the Aspen Daily News make certain the hidden stories and broader opinions of the general population get told.
There are those of us who have no intention, ever, of broadcasting our lives via news media. Really, you say? huh.
It's true. Just because we seized the opportunity to use mass communication to finish a job we didn't want in the first place and then expanded that into a means to make a meager living when nothing else was available (one that's become a closet guilty pleasure for many and wildly popular with quite a few); doesn't mean that we are 'self-aggrandizing'.
We're simply capitalizing on a niche market. You won't see us lending neon lit arrows pointing to 'read here' as truth starts rolling out for all to salivate over.
Are we proud to see and interested to observe the continual unfolding of broader awareness to 'the other side of Paradise'? That place where the majority of the folks in the region actually live in normal, day-to-day existence with a good portion of their lives ruled by the few and powerful?
You betcha.
A shout out of thanks goes once again to respected opinion columnist, Johnny Boyd.
Up on the Aspen Daily News.
Johnny Boyd:
"...The ongoing saga of Lee Mulcahy versus the Aspen Skiing Co. has become something of a comic story in the otherwise lofty sophistication of Aspen and its environs. As the standard that all other ski towns are measured against, Aspen’s methods and actions are scrutinized and emulated by impressionable resorts that will imitate their role model. Will these smaller resorts take notice and single out community members to sanction for actions the corporation doesn’t like?
I can’t imagine that smaller resorts would act with such petty retribution for disrespecting the will of the local corporation. In smaller, less company-minded towns, the backlash might be severe. I can, however, imagine that the little resorts would take note of SkiCo’s actions to remove trouble-making pro-union employees from the equation. The message is clear: Don’t try to unionize ski employees or you will never ski again.
Thuggish tactics used on one person to assure that pro-union employees are sent a message make big headlines in a small town. The SkiCo obviously doesn’t care that its methods keep the issue in the news long after it should have faded. The bad publicity is nothing when compared with paying employees a wage that people need to live on. It’s the bottom line that counts.....
.....It is neither glamorous nor sophisticated of the SkiCo and the museum to be seen as picking on the little guys. Truthfully, the pettiness of the SkiCo and the Aspen Art Museum isn’t so much a “comic story” as it is a joke.
If word gets out, that might affect the bottom line...." (Read the rest of Johnny's column? Click title)
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Showing posts with label Aspen Ski Corp CEO sued for libel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aspen Ski Corp CEO sued for libel. Show all posts
February 13, 2012
February 3, 2012
SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News "Former instructor Mulcahy sues SkiCo CEO for libel"
Since 'SandBox Nanny' has talked with Lee over all this, she'll direct her comment to the media coverage.
Again, she chooses Chad Abraham over on the Aspen Daily for his detail and thoroughness covering the topic and its background.
Good wishes to Lee Mulcahy. He already knows he has our support.
"...In an email to SkiCo employees in early February 2011, Kaplan said Mulcahy used the low-wage argument to cover up inappropriate behavior as an instructor.
In February 2010, Mulcahy, a 15-year instructor who was once invited into SkiCo’s elite Diamond Pros group of teachers, took a class of young girls out of bounds and used abusive language toward them, Kaplan wrote in a letter to the editor.
Both Aspen papers published Kaplan’s missive, which also said that in April 2010, a SkiCo guest “notified us that Lee charged a private lesson to his credit card without his authorization.”
Mulcahy’s lawsuit says the statements about both incidents are false and defamatory. SkiCo has emails from the client that authorize both the lesson and the credit-card charge, according to the court filing.
“The CEO of the SkiCo published the false statements with both knowledge and reckless disregard of their falsity,” wrote Mulcahy, who is representing himself in the lawsuit. “Moreover, the statements are considered defamatory on their face without further evidence to put them into context and make them defamatory.”
Jeff Hanle, SkiCo spokesman, said Thursday that Kaplan had not been served with the lawsuit and “therefore he has nothing to say.”
Mulcahy sustained a “great financial loss in the year 2011, in [an] amount exceeding $15,000, and plaintiff alleges that such losses are due to the slanderous activities of the defendant,” the lawsuit says.
Mulcahy, who did not return messages Thursday, writes that his reputation has been damaged and that Kaplan’s statements have deprived him of his livelihood. The plaintiff was “subjected to great humiliation and mental anguish and subjected to other damages from ‘the company that owns the company town,’” the lawsuit says.
Kaplan’s statements and the manner in which Mulcahy was fired “are stigmatizing and false, [and] they significantly foreclose plaintiff’s possibility of future employment in the field as well as the ‘company town’ in which he was employed by defendant,” the lawsuit says...." (Read more? Click title)
Again, she chooses Chad Abraham over on the Aspen Daily for his detail and thoroughness covering the topic and its background.
Good wishes to Lee Mulcahy. He already knows he has our support.
"...In an email to SkiCo employees in early February 2011, Kaplan said Mulcahy used the low-wage argument to cover up inappropriate behavior as an instructor.
In February 2010, Mulcahy, a 15-year instructor who was once invited into SkiCo’s elite Diamond Pros group of teachers, took a class of young girls out of bounds and used abusive language toward them, Kaplan wrote in a letter to the editor.
Both Aspen papers published Kaplan’s missive, which also said that in April 2010, a SkiCo guest “notified us that Lee charged a private lesson to his credit card without his authorization.”
Mulcahy’s lawsuit says the statements about both incidents are false and defamatory. SkiCo has emails from the client that authorize both the lesson and the credit-card charge, according to the court filing.
“The CEO of the SkiCo published the false statements with both knowledge and reckless disregard of their falsity,” wrote Mulcahy, who is representing himself in the lawsuit. “Moreover, the statements are considered defamatory on their face without further evidence to put them into context and make them defamatory.”
Jeff Hanle, SkiCo spokesman, said Thursday that Kaplan had not been served with the lawsuit and “therefore he has nothing to say.”
Mulcahy sustained a “great financial loss in the year 2011, in [an] amount exceeding $15,000, and plaintiff alleges that such losses are due to the slanderous activities of the defendant,” the lawsuit says.
Mulcahy, who did not return messages Thursday, writes that his reputation has been damaged and that Kaplan’s statements have deprived him of his livelihood. The plaintiff was “subjected to great humiliation and mental anguish and subjected to other damages from ‘the company that owns the company town,’” the lawsuit says.
Kaplan’s statements and the manner in which Mulcahy was fired “are stigmatizing and false, [and] they significantly foreclose plaintiff’s possibility of future employment in the field as well as the ‘company town’ in which he was employed by defendant,” the lawsuit says...." (Read more? Click title)
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