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Well, Douglas Wolk is a journalist, whereas Nick Sylvester is a humorist who ended up working at a newspaper.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:27 (twenty years ago)

so I guess the only silver lining here would be some updates on his dormant Riff Central?

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:28 (twenty years ago)

"I didn't read the viral marketing piece"

i'm not sure anyone did

― noizem duke (noize duke), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

I heard he was suffering Post Tramatic Stress Disorder from an iPod War.

― A. Poster, Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:31 (twenty years ago)

WINNER!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:32 (twenty years ago)

you are given an assignment for the cover of a major newspaper that involves reporting = you learn to be a reporter real quick or you turn it down

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:33 (twenty years ago)

No argument there!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:34 (twenty years ago)

HARMONY

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:35 (twenty years ago)

Side by side on my piano

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:35 (twenty years ago)

At least he didn't lie about pizza.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:39 (twenty years ago)

I think we're all missing the most pertinent question this story throws up: will this The Game book actually help me get laid more often?

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:40 (twenty years ago)

no but it might get you booted in the cack

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:41 (twenty years ago)

What are you, Cliff Clavin?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:47 (twenty years ago)

cack

\Cack\, v. i. [OE. cakken, fr. L. cacare; akin to Gr. ??????, and to OIr. cacc dung; cf. AS. cac.] To ease the body by stool; to go to stool. --Pope.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:49 (twenty years ago)

the context was perhaps a bit off

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

that TLASILA email exchange is ridiculous

― lil' flipper (eman), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

"perhaps the village voice will be cacked by this experience"

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

http://villagevoice.com/news/0610,news,72372,2.html

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

oooh.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:03 (twenty years ago)

Awwwkwaaaaaard

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:03 (twenty years ago)

Here we go.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:04 (twenty years ago)

― ohboy (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:06 (twenty years ago)

Does this mean we don't have to wish him the best anymore?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:09 (twenty years ago)

the word "reported" makes that statement of apology particularly painful.

― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:11 (twenty years ago)

aaaaand....scene

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:12 (twenty years ago)

This thread has been abandoned by everyone except vultures.

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:12 (twenty years ago)

The City's New Gay Saturday Bash

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:14 (twenty years ago)

i don't rilly get how a writer for, despite its aimlessness and paralysis, still the premiere alt newspaper in the nation could think he could get away with this in the age of Jayson Blair and james Frey. Don't know the guy, find the few things i have written smug, don't bear him ill will…but I don't get it. Hamron called it correct.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

So you're calling yourself a vulture?

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:16 (twenty years ago)

that was supposed to be "…things I have read smug…"

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:16 (twenty years ago)

commence lmaoing

― lil' flipper (eman), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:18 (twenty years ago)

wry ott going on = gold. Just sayin'

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:21 (twenty years ago)

why do i have the sinking suspicion that many of the people here sending out their support to him are actually enjoying every moment of this?

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:21 (twenty years ago)

I don't know why the response seems okay to me when I was sad about the Brent DiCrescenzo debacle and wanted him to write again.

― WillS, Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to stay out of this, but it's worth pointing out that the voice got rid of all of their fact-checkers about a month ago. that doesn't excuse what happened (if it's true), but the voice should certainly look into hiring some fact-checkers, pronto.

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

This thread makes me sick.

― save the robot (save the robot), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:41 (twenty years ago)

why?

― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

Sicker than making shit up and publishing it?

I'm willing to overlook the douchebaggery on this thread when the offense is so serious. That's not to say that we should all be rubbing it in though.

xpost

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:53 (twenty years ago)

This thread could be filled with much more douchebaggery.

But my heart goes out to poor, poor Sylverster. All he did was fabricate quotes - when did that become such a crime?

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:25 (twenty years ago)

Wry Cooter.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:28 (twenty years ago)

wroffle

― lil' flipper (eman), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:32 (twenty years ago)

Guy made a mistake, owned up to it. Move on.

― erklie (erklie), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm actually happy that Lookner is actually a real person - it sounds so made up.

xpost - "mistake"

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:33 (twenty years ago)

yes, a decision can be a mistake.

― erklie (erklie), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:50 (twenty years ago)

Too bad. I guess he was in over his head? I dont know. I thought the story was pretty boring personally, I just didn't care about the topic enough to read the whole thing, but it sucks that this happened. Hopefully he'll learn from this.

― D.J. Short (D.J.), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

geeta otm.

also, i just read that piece today and was thinkinga posting here about it, or on ile rather. it does have the "too-good-to-be-true" shattered glass vibe, but less in a set-piece sort of way and more in a "naah he's blowing everything waaay out of proportion" sorta way.

perhaps nick was making a statement about the new management (i.e. "burning down my masters house"?)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:57 (twenty years ago)

this is what you get for talking shit about WEEZER, dicknose!

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:00 (twenty years ago)

on the other hand that cocks and dolls blog response doesn't really say anything incriminating...

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

monkeyfishing

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:03 (twenty years ago)

i'm trying to think of any lifestyle/fluffpiece feature writers where this sort of thing didn't end up really really helping their careers - it certain helped neil strauss for example (i'd almost suspect nothing that's happened with how this has played out has been an accident). do ruth shalit or stephen glass count as fluffpiece writers? (glass probably does right, but he occasionally veered into the political forum so that probably counts as journalism where there's 'ethics' and 'standards'). suspension = his editors weren't in on the joke, that's where he fucked up.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:06 (twenty years ago)

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