Buzz Bissinger Continues To Taunt Philly Media Not As Awesome As Himself With Nothing But Sweet Memory
Dig this bit from ol’ Buzzy’s review of the new Pete Dexter book in the Times:
“Dexter often throws punches of profundity at the end of his columns, and too often they miss. But I began not to care. Even two decades later, Dexter’s writing holds up. It doesn’t necessarily make him timeless, although I did find myself terribly nostalgic for the column he wrote in Philadelphia and for the way voice was once so coveted that reporters for The Daily News and The Inquirer used to strut about with swagger and pride. It’s different now, under a new publisher who has just engineered a brutal round of newsroom cuts and seems to think the phrase “online ad revenue” is inspirational. It’s also what makes Paper Trails so bittersweet. The forgotten streets and forgotten people that Dexter felt obligated to memorialize ‚Äî a momentary voice to the voiceless with his own original voice ‚Äî are now just forgotten.”
We know it’s almost part of your bitching-in at Broad & Whatever to think this guy is the biggest prick of ever ‚Äî and to some degree he is ‚Äî but who cares. We are loving Le Buzz lately with a renewed sense of righteousness.
NYTimes: Dexter’s Laboratory
Previously: Buzz Beefinger
March 5th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Frankly, that whole schtick is getting old. Why isn’t Bissinger trying to contribute to making the Inquirer better? Right, because it’s easier and more fun to talk smack. Whatev, dude.
And from what I see, the people still working at the Inky right now are too busy to give a hot snot about what Bissinger or the other shitbirds have to say. But that’s just what I see.