Hatching plans
Sen. Orrin Hatch has a new instrument in his public-relations orchestra: incoming press secretary Mark Eddington.
Eddington left the Tribune Thursday after an 8-year run, doing terrific work for the paper. He was hired as the Utah County beat reporter and spent years mining that rich lode for great stories.
More recently he was editor of the Tribune's Close-Up zoned supplements and learned how to juggle with the mastery of a circus performer.
He's a talented guy who will likely serve Hatch well, which means we are probably going to be doing some hand-to-hand combat at times in the future. My parting advice to him: "Don"t take it personally."
Communities Editor Dave Noyce, who had the sharp eye and good sense to hire Eddington, did his stint at Letterman and came up with 10 reasons Eddington left the Trib to go to work for Hatch.
Here are the ones (only five) we can repeat in public:
5 -- To get a discount on Hatch's pipeline of nutritional supplements.
4 -- Thought the "Capitol Gang" was an offshoot of Utah County's old fight club.
3 -- To be lead guitar for Orrin's next "Don't you dare burn the flag" concert tour. (Eddington is the world's biggest Neil Young fan -- though he says he really is starting to appreciate Orrin Hatch's music, too, as he awaits his first Senate paycheck.)
2 -- Mistakenly thought he signed up as Salt Lake County Councilman JOE Hatch's flak.
1-- Worried that it was just a matter of time before his Trib buddies found out that not only was Mark a closet Orrin fan, but he also secretly lusted for Marie Osmond, taught hang-gliding to Super Dell and penned the original draft of BYU's honor code -- you know, the version that started every paragraph with "and it came to pass" and ended with the revelation that Cosmo is gay.
-- Dan Harrie
Eddington left the Tribune Thursday after an 8-year run, doing terrific work for the paper. He was hired as the Utah County beat reporter and spent years mining that rich lode for great stories.
More recently he was editor of the Tribune's Close-Up zoned supplements and learned how to juggle with the mastery of a circus performer.
He's a talented guy who will likely serve Hatch well, which means we are probably going to be doing some hand-to-hand combat at times in the future. My parting advice to him: "Don"t take it personally."
Communities Editor Dave Noyce, who had the sharp eye and good sense to hire Eddington, did his stint at Letterman and came up with 10 reasons Eddington left the Trib to go to work for Hatch.
Here are the ones (only five) we can repeat in public:
5 -- To get a discount on Hatch's pipeline of nutritional supplements.
4 -- Thought the "Capitol Gang" was an offshoot of Utah County's old fight club.
3 -- To be lead guitar for Orrin's next "Don't you dare burn the flag" concert tour. (Eddington is the world's biggest Neil Young fan -- though he says he really is starting to appreciate Orrin Hatch's music, too, as he awaits his first Senate paycheck.)
2 -- Mistakenly thought he signed up as Salt Lake County Councilman JOE Hatch's flak.
1-- Worried that it was just a matter of time before his Trib buddies found out that not only was Mark a closet Orrin fan, but he also secretly lusted for Marie Osmond, taught hang-gliding to Super Dell and penned the original draft of BYU's honor code -- you know, the version that started every paragraph with "and it came to pass" and ended with the revelation that Cosmo is gay.
-- Dan Harrie
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