Apart from writing in at least once a week to fix an egregious copy error of theirs (I have to triage – there are so many I can focus only on egregious errors), I occasionally drop Gawker a line to explain that their incredible scoops are positively old hat.
I’ve now had enough, since our dear Jewish and/or gay friends at Gawker are now at the stage of scanning in old Spy copy that I had already entered – using the kind of valid, accessible HTML that Denton still cannot manage – two full years ago.
- “NYT: Pitch Away!”
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Also, wasn’t the whole cease-fire-leads-to-soccer thing the premise of Paul McCartney’s 1983 “Pipes of Peace” video?
- And an entire movie, A Midnight Clear, starring Chelsea dad and Gawker mainstay Ethan Hawke. (More like Christmas spirit than soccer, but the theme is the same.)
- “The New Yorker Before and After Tina Brown”
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Tina Brown likes to remind people she put the New Yorker on the path to profitability before she left…with the widespread use of four-letter words. [But when has she reminded us of that lately? Where’s the news hook?] […] We dip into the retro-media files and produce a scan of Spy magazine from November ’93 that illustrates this point more clearly.
- Why not just read the whole thing yourself instead of squinting at a tiny scan?
See also: Ask Choire; “Great” Artists Steal, Allegedly.