It was like a scene out of The Office: Each day at the home office of the Inky and Daily News on Broad Street, it is customary for Brian Tierney to do a quick walk-through of the DN newsroom as he makes his way to the office. Frequently, he’ll stop and have a word with one of the rank and file, but just as often, he’ll do a parade-wave, saying hello and wishing a fabulous day to all within earshot. (It’s hard for us not to imagine Tierney magnanimously greeting the guys and gals every morning with salutations like “GREETINGS MY WONDERFUL SLAVES!” or “GOOD MORNING! AREN’T YOU GLAD I BOUGHT YOU?”) But this morning was different, goes the scuttlebutt around Broad Street today. On his pass-through this morning, a jovial Tierney waved through and bellowed:

Boy, it’s a great day to work at the Daily News, isnt’ it?

And was greeted with the kind of deafening, thunderous silence that he probably would have gotten if he’d walked up and laid his dick out on the receptionist’s desk. Wait. Did we hear that right? Staffers wondered. Naw, he couldn’t have. But oh, yes, he did. And while it’s true that today is perhaps a better day to be an employee at the Daily News than it is, oh, say, to be one at the Inquirer, well, as the hatchet man, it strikes us that Tierney shouldn’t be the one who gets to make that joke. On the other hand, whether you like it or not, he is.
And these are the days of our lives.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 at 5:32 pm.