Since we've been blogging about our beloved Worcester, we've taken the 51 year old spinster, Rosalie Tirella, to task for her journalistic ineptitude. In fact, making fun of the Mistress of Muck has become a local sport. Yet we suspect she takes pride in her reputation; being a pariah among the locals is a medal worn with pride. And proud she is.
For those of you have not followed Rosalie Tirella’s professional career, it’s been a cavalcade of blunders e.g., the Dianne Williamson humiliation, or the Gerard Dio debacle, and the insanely fanatical attacks on locals – obscenity laced diatribes attacking anyone who may, or may not, have affronted her.
This highlights the fact that even as a self-professed journalist she’s incapable of putting together a coherent sentence. Makes Bill Randell look like a Pulitzer Prize winner. The fact is, there’s ineptitude in everything she does - professionally and personally. In a way that’s good for us - something to laugh about in this dreary town. We all need it. But there is a downside to her antics.
The fact is Rosalie Tirella hasn’t learned from her mistakes. And obviously never will. Now at the midpoint in her life, an honest assessment (she can't write for squat) of her pseudo-journalistic career would be in order. The fact is ICT is boring - sticking to a decrepit pseudo-journalistic model; just rehashing the same time worn paroles issue for issue - to ICT's detriment. ICT been doing the same thing for 10 years. Get with the times. Expand the content instead of just posting pictures of women's boobs.
Rosalie Tirella is blind to the fact that she’s made herself and ICT the target of derision, believing it sells copy. Locals no longer raise an eyebrow or smirk at the mention of her name, they laugh openly. Come to think of it, has ICT ever won a journalistic award? No - don’t see that ever happening. But she's won several BFA's - Blogging Fool Awards.
Which reminds me of two related anecdotes. Last month at a supermarket, exiting the store, a 40-ish male before me, reached for an flyer, inadvertently taking an ICT as well. Realizing his mistake, he tossed it back. It landed on the floor. Behind him a 30-ish woman intentionally walked on it and cracked, “the only thing its good for”. The man turned around, “how right you are”, then made a remark about Rosalie’s sanity. We all had a good laugh. I then took a WOMAG, called out, hey any you guys want a WOMAG? They smirked, "keep it" they said.
Or the time at City Hall, a stack of ICT's lying on the newsstand counter, a city hall employee came by and took them and walked out and tossed them in the trash.
If you haven’t already noticed, the once pervasive paper edition is no longer available at many of the previous outlets or lies untouched on the few newsstands willing to handle it. Or in the trash. The website is a failure, frequented by less than 200 visitors a month. If even that.
We expect that ICT will soon fade into local history. Just how long can one keep doing that shtick? Will we be poorer for it? Don’t think so. What then will Rosalie Tirella do? My guess is as good as yours. Thinking here. If she’s so politically smart and connected etc., as she maintains, why then doesn't she run for office once ICT dies. Or before. Maybe a run for school committee. I hear she loves kids.
And yes, rest assured Rosalie Tirella will retort with ludicrous claims about her integrity (ahem), her political (ahem), and cultural influence (ahem) on the city. Or with a lawyer even - I stole her story or libeled her. To even claim such nonsense suggests she’s delusional. But you knew that. One thing is true: Rosalie Tirella, a legend in her own mind.
But we sure would like to see those webstats.
