Last week PW’s Kia Gregory hurled a racial stink bomb into the Daily News‘ bunker. Today, the DN’s Simone Weichselbaum tossed a snark grenade back:

Of course, her one-sided diatribe failed to mention that a black man runs the DN or that one of the so-called racist crime reporters is actually a brown-skinned Brooklynite. PC just assumed that the rules of journalism don’t apply to alternative weeklies. Gregory defended her alternativeness in an email to the male-half of PC. She claimed that her factless article was really an opinion piece that allowed her to vent about the People Paper.

Sweetie, newspaper reporting doesn’t work that way.

Even if it is just your opinion, all stories need some context to it. Otherwise, it is just a sixth-grade styled essay titled “What I think about [fill in the blank].”
Enclosed are some writing tips. Heck, we all need help sometime. PC is not upset at you for printing your thoughts, we are pissed because a reader, not familiar with how proper journalism is conducted, might confuse your piece for the truth.

DN: Oh No You Dih-Int!
PW: Oh Yes She Did!

This entry was posted on Monday, June 26th, 2006 at 3:08 pm.