New OC Register Publisher Asks Reporters to Give Him One Hour a Week for Customer Service Calls

By: Gustavo Arellano | OC Weekly

I'm still researching new-ish Orange County Register publisher Rich Mirman--the former casino executive who came in to clean up Reg owner's Aaron Kushner's mess--before writing anything extensive about him, but Mirman has already offended his newsroom in one big way: He's asking them to step up and become customer service reps for an hour a week.

It's strictly voluntary, mind you, and probably necessary after the fiasco that was Kushner switching delivery drivers and leaving Register subscribers without their daily drivel for weeks at a time (the switch came, of course, because Kushner wasn't paying his bills to his former delivery drivers, the Los Angeles Times).