Quote of the Day
Brownstoner, So you fancy yourself a member of the media now? That’s a laugh. Sit around copying and pasting links all day from actual newspapers and you feel you deserve to be included amongst reputable publications that actually put in work and report the news? Your site offers absolutely nothing of value in terms of…
Brownstoner,
So you fancy yourself a member of the media now? That’s a laugh. Sit around copying and pasting links all day from actual newspapers and you feel you deserve to be included amongst reputable publications that actually put in work and report the news? Your site offers absolutely nothing of value in terms of news and only exists to help your boyhood UES Manhattan pals sell overpriced real estate.
Go to school, work hard, and get a real job if it’s respect and recognition you crave. Or at least hire writers who know how to formulate sentences. Posting links to other people’s work does not make you part of the media. You write a blog and you run a dirty flea market. You’re no different than the other 100,000 yuppies who’ve moved to Brooklyn in the past decade. You’re quite far from being part of the media elite in this town.
Keep up the good work.
— Posted by EnglishKills in Here’s the New Whole Foods Rendering
@g man: Yeah, but I have no idea who this Craig Hammerman guy is, and I’m certainly not on his email list. Stoner was the 1st place I read about it so to me it was news, and that’s pretty much the point of redundancy and dispersion of information via any form of media, eh?
Good to know benson; thanks. After about 20 comments, I decided the Whole Foods thread didn’t have much to tell me and stopped reading it.
this is better than gossip girl which ALSO takes place between people who live on the UES and Brooklyn! hahahah
*rob*
G-man;
Lots of people called out Mr. B. in the Whole Foods thread, and deservedly so. English Kills’ comments, however, are over-the-top.
WHAT!?
What a hilarious quote.
We are all media now, especially Mr. B.
— Member of the Old Media (the one that supplanted the people who copy illuminated manuscripts)
This website often does break news (many times because there is a tipster who observes something going on in their own neighborhood) but in this case I agree with g man that this info was hardly a scoop. I’ve seen many other cases where a mainstream NYC newspaper obviously got the idea for a more obscure local story from a blogger and failed to indicate their debt to the smaller and far-less-well-funded source. The ongoing Whole Food saga was being tracked by lots of people for a long time now…
If there is nothing I hate more, it’s a lovefest, so I’ll just throw a little contrarian thinking at this. Craig Hammerman blasts every e-mail address he ever came within ten feet of (mine included) with the news he received from Whole Foods. Brownie posts it verbatim and then when other media run the story–probably from other sources–gets peevish that the blog didn’t get credit for “breaking the story?” Puh-lease!
Killah business model, well-designed website, excellent source of information that I value and check several times a day, but EnglishKills ain’t the only one who lacks perspective here. Stoner’s lapses like this are infrequent but (to myself) I called bulls#it on his incredulousness as soon as I read it.
Douchey with a capital D.
Yeah I know, the weather sucks ass today.
love this. little does the poor guy know how much he made my day. thanks b’stoner for posting it and giving us a chuckle. I’m picturing a skinny white guy with dandruff in dirty tighty-whiteys at his keyboard cursing away.