Clint Steib

CLINT STEIBPhoto Editor :

In a closed-door meeting on May 30, Waybourn told Clint Steib, the Blade's photo editor, and Greg Varner, the paper's arts editor, that if they participated in union activities, they would be immediately terminated.
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Waybourn based his threat on his claim that Varner and Steib were managers although they had never exercised any managerial duties as defined by federal labor law.
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In preparation for an NLRB hearing that was scheduled for June 15, the Guild subpoenaed Waybourn to provide documentary evidence that Steib and Varner were managers.
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Waybourn's attorneys claimed that the involvement of Steib and Varner would have tainted the entire unionizing process, because managers are excluded by law from assisting unionization.
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In his letter to Varner and Steib, Waybourn, quoting a section of the 1935 law, wrote:

Photograph by Clint Steib of The Washington Blade.

&emdash; Former Washington Blade photo editor Clint Steib, one of several staffers who have departed since Window Media bought what had long been considered the world's best gay newspaper, to the Washington, D.C., City Paper, April 11.

"I have no memory of my own mutilation [circumcision] experience.My mother told me recently that I screamed for hours in pain and shock.Because I don't recall it now doesn't mean it wasn't traumatic then.Can you imagine our medical system doing this unnecessary procedure in any other context?I'm sorry but this is an indefensible practice."&emdash; Gay journalist Andrew Sullivan writing at AndrewSullivan.com, April 16.

Former photo editor Clint Steib and others point to a litany of problems: a period when health-care benefits were suspended, significant lag times for checks to be paid, and anti-union activities. (Crain denies that there have been financial problems and says the union issue was settled amicably.)
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But in this case, says Steib, the turnover stems from philosophical, not transitional, issues.

"The Blade was a community-based newspaper, and Window Media moved it away from that community base," he says.Steib adds that having writers from other cities help fill the pages of the Washington paper has corrupted its identity: "They're going into local gay communities and buying up all the papers, and it's sad, because the quality has gone way down.The Blade was very well-respected in both gay and mainstream media, and you just can't say that anymore."

The paper's decline, says Steib, is evident in two recent cover stories: one on gay talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell and another on actor Russell Crowe, whose film A Beautiful Mind has been dogged by accusations that its creators purposely omitted the main character's bisexual history.

Former photo editor Clint Steib and others point to a litany of problems: a period when health-care benefits were suspended, significant lag times for checks to be paid, and anti-union activities. (Crain denies that there have been financial problems and says the union issue was settled amicably.)

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But in this case, says Steib, the turnover stems from philosophical, not transitional, issues.

"The Blade was a community-based newspaper, and Window Media moved it away from that community base," he says.Steib adds that having writers from other cities help fill the pages of the Washington paper has corrupted its identity: "They're going into local gay communities and buying up all the papers, and it's sad, because the quality has gone way down.The Blade was very well-respected in both gay and mainstream media, and you just can't say that anymore."

The paper's decline, says Steib, is evident in two recent cover stories: one on gay talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell and another on actor Russell Crowe, whose film A Beautiful Mind has been dogged by accusations that its creators purposely omitted the main character's bisexual history.

CLINT STEIB has left his job as photo editor of the Washington Blade.