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― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

One rumor inside the Voice, we hear, is that the decision not to fire Sylvester came from Village Voice Media HQ — the Arizonans formerly known as New Times Media — who agree that Sylvester can be forgiven because he is young and was “fatigued.”

Think I can ask my boss to forgive me for fucking up million dollar buys by being young and fatigued? Ah who cares, I quit anyways.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

it seems like people here are still speculating whether Sylvester quit Pitchfork or was asked to quit, this says the latter:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--villagevoice-fabr0302mar02,0,7432230.story

personally, I'm kind of surprised, considering that the Voice has only suspended him so far. I mean, what if they decided not to fire him? would Pitchfork want him back? besides, PF had a pretty lax attitude toward fact-checking themselves until what? 9 months ago?

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

I can't agree with that assessment of their fact checking. I.e. this review http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/comp/soul-jazz/tropicalia.shtml. Shot through with errors.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

and only about a month old.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:00 (twenty years ago)

The new Gawker update to which Candicissima refers.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

not saying they still don't make errors! just that they didn't even seem to know what fact-checking was a few years ago, compared to now. (xp)

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

remember when I wrote but like Pitchfork could care? upthread? Guess I was wrong.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

xpost, I was sort of agreeing with you, I was meaning that PF is being hypocritical with this move: why the hell take Sylvester off the staff for making stuff up while keeping someone who has researched his review on google?

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

is it some sort of "no really, pitchfork is a real magazine with high ethical standards" kind of move? Just interesting if the Voice doesn't fire him and Pitchfork does. Was he fabricating his own opinions in record reviews? Did he really hate those bands he liked and vice-versa?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

so far, this is the best quote this thread has produced:

This reminds me of the time my sea monkeys started eating each other.

-- My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (nicole.kessle...) (webmail), March 2nd, 2006 1:22 PM. (Ex Leon) (later) (link)

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Oh, no question of that, Midi!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

that is a Pitchfork 9.8 rated zing

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

if nick sylvester was fired, how the fuck do they justify keeping brent dicrescenzo on their masthead:

Last Tuesday, June 15th, Pitchfork published a review of the Beastie Boys' To the 5 Boroughs by Brent DiCrescenzo, a frequent and trusted contributor. In his review, Brent detailed experiences with the Beastie Boys' public relations firm Nasty Little Man, and its president Steve Martin, over the course of several years. Pitchfork has since determined that a number of DiCrescenzo's assertions were false, based on corroborated statements from the two parties he claimed were participating in the chain of events referred to in the review. With apologies to Steve Martin and Nasty Little Man, we have retracted the original review in its entirety, and would like to make the following known publicly, to correct any and all falsities perpetrated by Brent's review:

1) Radiohead were never in Milan in June 1999.

2) Radiohead never moved a concert from Villa Reale in Milan to Monza in 1999, 2000 or otherwise.

3) Steve Martin never "forgot to tell" Brent that the concert was moved, as it was not.

4) Neither Steve Martin, nor anyone working for Nasty Little Man, ever confirmed a Radiohead interview with Brent DiCrescenzo or Pitchfork.

5) Brent DiCrescenzo's declaration that Steve Martin had not gotten back to him or Mean magazine about a possible Beastie Boys interview after six weeks is untrue: Martin was in constant contact with Mean publisher Kashy Khaledi and editor Andy Hunter throughout that period.

6) Mean magazine never "delayed their publication to accomodate [Martin's] procrastination." Kashy Khaledi did so of his own volition in order to keep the Beastie Boys cover story Martin had confirmed and saw through with him every step of the way.

7) Steve Martin has never, to Brent DiCrescenzo's knowledge, "dangled [his] major artists... like carrots to the media in an attempt to blackmail press for features" on less established artists or bands.

Sincerely,
Pitchfork Media

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Was he fabricating his own opinions in record reviews? Did he really hate those bands he liked and vice-versa?

Employers In Don't Like Working With Liars Shockah.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Employers In Like Some Liars And Dislike Others Shockah

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't that DiCres review obviously satire, and it's main sin was publicist-baiting?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Also that DiCrescenzo review had no reverberations outside of PFM and its readership. To an outside eye, it potentially looks bad to have "the guy from that Village Voice scandal that was reported everywhere" on staff.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

yeah i think the main difference with the brent thing was that ryan and the site were in on the joke and it was fairly parodic on the surface

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Fritz, it's not like Pitchfork is some big company and they just discovered Nick lied on a feature for another publication...I'd assume Pitchfork had a long history with Nick, and wouldn't be so quick to dump him like that. It feels like a publicity move on their part. "yeah, he's worked with us for a long time, but we can't afford to be associated with him for a second longer."

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

and by "big company" I don't mean to reflect on Pitchfork's size, but trying to get at their relationship with one of their longtime writers.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

MAN: ARE YOUR SPONTANEOUS?

WOMAN: YES

MAN: DO YOU LIEK FUN?

WOMAN: IS THIS A YES-LADDER?

MAN: http://www.drudgereport.com/siren.gif

― lil' flipper (eman), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

yeah and I'm sure Neighborhoodies and fucking Aperican Apparel could care less about this. This is all a publicity play, there's no way any of their advertisers would pull out because of this.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

My question is, what's a "Senior Associate Editor"???

I was a senior associate editor for like 5 years! it just means that you've stuck around long enough and they want to give you a bump in pay, but w/o any real change of position! it's a total "farmer ted, king of the dipshits" type thing.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

dan, that sounds right. firing nick does seem like a bid for respectability or something. jaymc's argument that nick's fuck-up was more high profile than brent's echoes that.

here's the nasty little man story
http://www.timesnewroman.org/Brent%20Article.htm

seems to me of the "making up a bunch of shit to make someone look like a dick" school of parody aka libel, but i can be kind of dense. where is the tip-off that this is satiric fiction?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I never thought the Brent piece was satiric, I just thought he forgot shit, which is fair, although the piece in question was really repulsive.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

""Oh, Steve forgot to tell you that the concert was moved to Monza." Monza is a suburb 30 minutes north of Milan. I had passed it on the train from Frankfurt."

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Although the "Jmoke Jhop" point was good and has stuck with me.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Keeping Sylvester around is going to make it harder for other Voice reporters to do their jobs. Reporters like James Ridgeway and Jarrett Murphy, who collect sensitive information from anonymous sources, are going to have to work that much harder now to assure their sources that information will be handled properly. It goes straight to the credibility of the newspaper.

― reporter, Friday, 3 March 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I think in the old ILM thread about the Beastie Boys review, I figured out that he got the year wrong (2000 instead off 99 like he said) that all that shit supposedly went down, which might be the root of NLM denying it up and down.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

so is it parody, or is it reporting where the reporter got year wrong?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

like james ridgeway doesn't make up shit.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

like james ridgeway doesn't make up shit.

Prove it.

― reporter, Friday, 3 March 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

"Hello, Nasty," the girl on the phone says.

In one of the first "concept" reviews at Pitchfork, and one of my first for the site in general, I review Hello Nasty. I make some stupid Tibet joke, give it an 8.5...

It is not mentally possibly for me to switch on apathy towards the group-- and immediately hate this record because the Beastie Boys associate themselves with pricks like Steve Martin and his sycophantic fleet of product pushers who fail to see the benefit of funny, creative magazine pieces.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

like james ridgeway doesn't make up shit.
Prove it.

don't ask me, ask vice president mccain.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

This reminds me of the time my gaysians started eating each other.

― erklie (erklie), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Too much, too little, too late.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

This reminds me of the time my gaysians started eating each other.

So you've been to SEA?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I knew Sylvester was lying about Annie kissing him on the cheek, a fabricator through and through.

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

when annie played toronto i was introduced to her as being from pitchfork and the first thing she said to me was "do you know nick sylvester?"

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

He's everywhere, he's everywhere!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

now i realize she was just yes-laddering me

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

"drop the zero and get with the hero there svetlana or whatever the fuck your name is."

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

"your dj kicks sucked"

― NEGGED (Mark P), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

"dj kicks? I thought you said teenage kicks!"

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)

"i've got cocaine."

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

"Do you have a sister?"

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15

― George 'the Animal' Steele, Friday, 3 March 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

He's got a book deal?

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Tony Yayo: The Untold Story

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

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