‘False smarts’ sank pretentious job
Tue, 2015-05-26 05:00
News Staff
By Willis Webb
Everyone knows someone like this person — very bright but not quite as smart as they think they are. In the early 1970s, I was hired as editor of a sizable twice-weekly newspaper in an area adjacent to Houston, which had begun to grow rapidly with a spillover effect for my new town. This newspaper was beginning to reap the fruits of that growth and the then-owners decided to sell the paper to an ambitious publishing group. I got to keep my job as editor.