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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
Biff — His comments also include reference to a 6-unit building he owns… ya know, the typical property for a 29 year old to own. Oh, wait. No, that’s the sort of property that is bankrolled by daddy’s or granddad’s money!
(Or he was a successful meth cooker before he got into the high-rolling career of urban planner. I’m assuming that’s what he means by planner… or perhaps he’s a party planner.)
Little self-righteous turd.
Brownstoner long ago gained momentum enough to quash attitudes like this, which are usually more perplexed than outright hostile, in the dust.
I don’t think anyone who lives in Park Slope is in a position to be calling other people yuppies.
“So you fancy yourself a member of the media now?” — Um, this is media, EK, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to access it.
“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?” — Um, he did report a story. He had the scoop on the WF letter to CB6. Small potatoes, but it is reporting. Your comment is in the follow up thread to that story.
“Your site offers absolutely nothing of value in terms of news” — so why are you reading it? You must place 0 value on your own time.
“only exists to help your boyhood UES Manhattan pals sell overpriced real estate.” — Um, this is Brooklyn, not UES.
“Go to school, work hard, and get a real job if it’s respect and recognition you crave.” — Maybe the two of you should get together and compare tax returns.
“Or at least hire writers who know how to formulate sentences.” — Where’s the subject of that sentence?
“Posting links to other people’s work does not make you part of the media.” — Again, I think you need to look up the definition of media.
“You write a blog and you run a dirty flea market.” — OK, yes, he writes a blog. And yes, it is hard to sanitize a large outdoor urban space. So you got him there.
“You’re no different than the other 100,000 yuppies who’ve moved to Brooklyn in the past decade.” — There are 100,000 other Brooklyn blogs that generate equivalent hits and revenues? I’d love to see them.
“You’re quite far from being part of the media elite in this town.” — Bit of a straw man, don’t you think? You got a cite for Mr. B claiming he’s part of media elite?
Oh my, and I thought I was a firebrand of sorts.
Bitter, table for one.
How has EnglishKills been in Brooklyn since 1978 (despite references in past posts to having also lived in Queens) yet he’s only 29 years old? Is Brownstoner like the Land of Oz where posters never grow old?
Englishkills must new around here, or he’d know Mr. B’s background, and he wouldn’t have mouthed off!
Good golly! Back away from the keyboard…slowly…slowly…hands up…right…that’s good…