Gone To Texas: Trent Seibert Uses His Pulle-Down Menu

By Kleinheider Posted on August 20, 2008 at 12:24 pm

That’s right. Former Tennessean scribe, TV newshound and think-tanker Trent Seibert has offered former Nashville Scene-ster Matt Pulle an opportunity to go right back where he left Nashville for the first time: Dallas, Texas.

As a staff writer for the newly-formed 501(c) -to-be, Texas Watchdog, started by board members Seibert, Lee Ann O’Neal and Jennifer Peebles, Pulle will be stationed in his old stomping grounds of Dallas, Texas. Pulle spent three years in between stints at the Nashville Scene on the staff of alt-weekly the Dallas Observer.

Texas Watchdog Editor-in-Chief Trent Seibert can’t be happier regarding his first hiring coup.

“I’m tremendously excited about being able to work with Pulle. He’s a great wordsmith and he’s got an edge in his writing that I like, ” Seibert said when contacted by Post Politics. “As an added bonus with Pulle, we’ll have some creative tension in our newsroom. I think Pulle has slammed all of us (Board Members Jennifer Peebles, Lee Ann and me) at one time or another when he was doing media criticism with the Nashville Scene.”

That said, as far as Pulle is concerned, the pleasure with this new union of former Tennessee journalists is to be all on his side of the table.

“When Trent first came to The Tennessean a few years ago, I was amazed by how quickly he was able to get on the front page with really good, interesting stories–better than what anyone else was writing at the time. Honestly, I was a little jealous. I didn’t get to know him until a few years after that, but he was one of those rare guys who gets you excited about journalism  and writing So when he offered me a job at his start-up and a chance to write about politics in Texas, I jumped at the chance.”

The Pulle gig, Post Politics is told, is only a three month firm commitment while Pulle decompresses from his brief eight month respite in Nashville and Texas Watchdog evaluates its position as a startup non-profit.

The fact is, however, Pulle is already on the case. A story regarding a certain Dallas-based money-man who has footed the bill for a certain ex-presidential candidate’s mistress is now live at the new, and now improved, Texas Watchdog.

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