Fight For Your Right

karenuhoh:

doree:

Meta-interconnected-something-ness:

Mr. Kaplan will leave a New York media world that is fundamentally different than the one he entered in 1994. Just last week, the Observer broke a story about a Brooklyn con woman, the so-called “hipster-grifter,” in a news article that provided just the kind of New York intrigue and context that had been a hallmark of the newspaper. But Gawker, the Manhattan gossip blog, immediately took custody of the story, annotating it with attitude and reader-submitted sightings of the protagonist that all but obscured where the story came from in the first place.

Doree, hon? It’s your fucking story. Everyone with a brain in their head knows you OWN it.

Hear me, out there? In the cold CyberUniverse? EVERYONE WITH A BRAIN KNOWS.

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   A lot more people know a lot more than they used to about a lot of things related to that story. It’s not just the NY...

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   doree:Meta-interconnected-something-ness:

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   Doree, hon? It’s your fucking story. Everyone with a brain in their head knows you OWN it. Hear me, out there? In the...

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   Oh who cares what Gawker did? The more important point here is that Doree is responsible for the swansong accomplishment...

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    …and another meta-media-raspberry is sputtered from across the playground….

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