Thanks Much,
Cheri

His Craigslist ad is sad. And funny.

But seriously, I don’t mean to be harsh… or catty… or wink-wink. I just think it’s a little mean-spirited, even if he is asking for it in a lot of ways. (Which I don’t doubt.)

As for unjournalistic, I think the part that crossed the line for me was the word “sad” appended onto the headline. (Are link descriptions considered headlines?) It just seemed gratuitious. Editorlizing, sure, but in a very gossipy way.

That said, I DO like this site a lot. I just get irked sometimes but the tone. I’ll let that be my problem and not yours. It’s obviously working for you.

“it’s unbecoming of a Pulitzer Prize winner….”

Ooooo, smack! Or do I mean “wink-wink”? Catty!

“…to use an ostensibly journalistic medium…”

Wow, where do we begin here?

“…to exploit the guy’s private life like this for gossip.”

Ai-yi-yi. You can’t possibly know Jaime Hook. Did you read the post? It’s written in this “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE INFAMOUS JAIME HOOK…” tone. You can’t “exploit” that kind of ostentatiousness! He’s sitting in his Brooklyn apartment right now, chuckling that he somehow created an impression that people are still talking about.

Of all the accusations, I take the journalistic one most sensitively. I’ll just say this: if I were writing a profile of Jaime Hook, I would use that Craigslist post as a fundamental piece of evidence in illustrating parts of his personality. It’s just packed with so much self-awareness, cockiness, wit, quasi-wit, strangeness… I’m going to run out of adjectives. If that’s unjournalistic in your mind, well, I can recommend a few books.

Fuck, there I go being catty again.

And, Rex, it’s unbecoming of a Pulitzer Prize winner to use an ostensibly journalistic medium to exploit the guy’s private life like this for gossip. Incompetent or not, asshole or not, he’s trying to move on and doesn’t need it his efforts displayed in a discussion forum made up largely of people who (if they know who he is) dislike him. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been “well, relatively sympathetic” to him in the past or not, this is just wrong. Look what the internet yields, indeed.

I don’t expect real journalism from City Pages, but this wasn’t even close. It seems like they are saying the plan should be scrapped because it disrupts local businesses. Well, if that’s the standard then we’d never develop anything or fix a street anywhere.

But watch, CP will be the first one to stand up and say what a great thing Midtown is once it’s finished.

Is the “you” in this supposed to be me? Cuz a) I promise you’ve never seen me rip on CJ for anything and b) I’m all about gossip mongering and schadenfreude and c) I’m the one who has been sympathic to Jaime’s plight (well, relatively sympathetic at least, compared to others here).

Regardless, I found it interesting in a “look what the internet yields” way, ’tis all.

Thats what I’am very afraid of. Suburbs have they’re Woodbury and Arbor Lakes type shopping areas and thats cool, but I just hope the Lake street doesn’t turn into that type of open mall where brand/bland stores full the avenue.