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Originally Posted by Monarchos1
Because he has suggested that she has handled the situation poorly and provided no evidence of that. An explanation certainly seems appropriate.
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Although I cannot speak for DRF, I believe I can provide some explanation and should have before some of the questions and rancor arose about this topic..
Lauren has been a great addition to "At the Races" and I greatly appreciate her contributions. She has been very generous with me doing the weekly segment, and she is as popular doing it as she is elsewhere in racing media. However, it is not unfair to criticize the way in which she has handled her departure from the DRF publicly, as she has characterized it very inaccurately and placed some people, including me, in awkward positions doing so.
The fact is that she was offered a similar deal to stay on at DRF that Dave Tuley, Closer Look authors, and other peripheral (non-track beat) writers have been offered, which was a position as an independant 'contributor' to the paper rather than as a full-time staffer. She flatly refused that and has turned around and acted as if DRF dropped her cold and out of the blue.
Her campaign to have people email DRF executives, including some that had been staunch supporters of hers over many years, was grossly unfair, and the way in which she broached the 'campaign' on venues like ATR was rather unprofessional. Everyone I've come across likes Lauren Stich very much, and understands that when the situation came about she was upset. But her version of events has been excedingly one-sided, and she seems uninterested in acknowledging that she was offered an option to continue her pressence at the paper.