I know it's hard for you to believe it, sweetheart, but the media industry actually is bigger than Nick Denton's head.
caro:
“As someone actually employed as a writer, albeit not the sort of cranky navel-gazing social looker-on that Miss Bangs-and-Eyeliner seems to have once dreamed of being, I can tell you that the same thing applies to the media industry that applies to all niches of New York life. This city is what you make of it, and I can’t stress that enough. If you find their writing mean, don’t read it. If you find them intolerable, don’t go to their parties. If you’re convinced that you’ll never ever ever ever be famous unless you manage to strike up a conversation with Keith Gessen at a loft party and dazzle him with your repartée, put things into perspective and keep in mind that nobody who doesn’t read Gawker religiously has any clue who he is anyway. There are plenty of interesting and successful (well, relatively speaking) writers in New York who aren’t among the irritating ranks detailed in this heavily-quoted-and-reblogged post.”
This strikes me as incredibly defensive. Jessica Roy is just a kid, and maybe she did strike on something true about the social-climbing aspect of this town to raise your hackles? Or, why be so mean — even ripping on her appearance! — when it’s clear she’s reacting to something distasteful about the “scene”? Why tear her down?
Hear hear, JGH. I felt bad for Jessica Roy for being disillusioned; worse for people attacking her for being twenty. Give it a rest, people.
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