Must-Read Q & A In Which I Try to Help Gawker Figure Out Their Strat

whatevs:

I don’t agree with my peers that Rex Sorgatz’s profile in the New York Times — in the STYLES section — is akin to the death of Journalism. That said, I do have to call bullshit on something that was written in this article. Specifically, this:

IT was a rainy Tuesday night and Rex Sorgatz, a rail-thin man with spiky red hair and Sol Moscot glasses, walked into a birthday party held at Tom & Jerry’s, a bar in NoHo that has become a go-to place for New York’s Twitter class. A circle of friends who occupy the digital elite closed in, all shouting “Rex!”

I have been to many, many social functions where Rex Sorgatz was also an attendee. I have ALSO been to Tom & Jerry’s on a number of occasions where Rex was also there. However, in neither of those situations have I ever once HEARD OR SEEN a group of “digital elites” descend on Rex, en masse, shouting “Rex!”

What can we draw from this? Either:

1) It never happened

OR

2) Rex set it up in advance

Does anyone know the real deal? No offense, Rexy, just doing some homework!