Resource-Sharing At Inky/DN Produces Still Even More Whining
Look, fuckers over there at Broad & Whatever, I gotta be honest with you people. Every time we post about your many woes and troubles, it’s like an anti-boner pill for this website. Nobody who reads this cares. They don’t care about your forthcoming layoffs/section cuts, they don’t care about your deeply fucked work culture, and they probably really, really don’t care that as of yesterday, Inky and Daily News newsdesks started sharing things like photographers and copy editors and that you guys are all really, really upset because you have no interaction whatsoever with the actual world, where people have problems that are real and not justified by decades of poor service to their respective readerships. Why? Because they cashed out on you bitches a long time ago. Meanwhile, I’m stuck here getting all my blogjuice sopped up by a sponge made of public service and morbid curiosity. Double-meanwhile, here’s just one screaming example of how fucking petty and ridiculous the Inky/DN culture is, and why, just maybe, it needs to die, even if that means we’ll all just have to get our AP stories from the Metro one day: Dan Gross actually used the term “Inqwaster”, as if the same company does not cut checks for both papers and with no apparent sense of irony, in an item about two Inky employees kinda sorta maybe being caught thinking about having sex somewhere. Case dismissed. When the going gets tough, the tough do not titter with sexual jealousy and posturing, self-righteous infighting. All of you, get the fuck out of my office.
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July 8th, 2008 at 11:25 am
the editorial/opinion pages from the last two or three Sunday Inquirers have been way over the top. Though debatable whether Tierney is the devil, he’s definitely a GOP stalwart and apologist.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:37 am
rant. on it.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I cancelled after subscribing for years, not just because of the slipping quality and Santorum having a fucking column, but because they couldn’t reliably deliver my paper by breakfast time. If I can’t read the paper while eating my cereal and have to fire up the laptop and go online anyway, what’s the point in subscribing?
Fix the little stuff first.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
fair enough. but surely you also noticed that the bulk of stuff on the every block philadelphia site was from the Inquirer. you’ll miss us when we’re gone.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Is anyone else really sick of Philebrity lambasting everyone else for gossip snippets and small-minded, petty bullshit, pretending like this sort of thing isn’t their bread and butter? I mean come on guys, you say at the top of this post that no one reads when you post about the Inquirer. But when you write about how lame that kid from Project Runway is or how Lauren Graham snubbed you on a movie set or how hot Kate Moss looked at Johnny Brendas, your readers go ape shit. So don’t act like you are above it. I am not giving the Inquirer a pass here, just get off your fuckin high horse about it.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
You’re right, Steele, but the first part of curing yourself of an addiction is realizing that other people you kind of can’t stand but are sort of a lot like you have a much worse problem.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
And also, it’s not that we’re above celeb/Phileb gossip, it’s just that we demand a higer calibur. This newsanchor shit just isn’t gonna cut it. We’re more interested in people who’ve done things with their lives — such as, say, landing Dov Charney as a “Daddy.”
July 8th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
you demand a “higer calibur”? What the hell are you smoking over there? Can I have some?
July 8th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
do you read much? Dan Gross uses the term “Inqwaster” all the time when referring to the Inquirer, so unless that’s the first fime you’ve read the Daily News I’m not sure why this usage is any different. I actually don’t have a problem with it, as the Inquirer and Daily News are very different papers and stirring up a little intracompany rivalry is actually somewhat refreshing, most companies would mandate cross promotional love fests
July 9th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Chase Rollins (great name btw) is right: “Inqwaster” is Gross’ standard name for the paper. He’s called it that for as long as I can remember.
But Philebs has a point about the ridiculousness of printing what amounts to unsubstantiated office gossip about two anonymous co-workers who allegedly wanted to have sex with each other. Big fucking deal. At least you could always count on Stu Bykofsky to be batshit insane when he was writing the gossip column. Gross is just boring.