When I read something in the news that’s indefensibly bad and gross, I usually track down the offending writer’s email address or Twitter feed, and let them know why they stink.
This morning Carly Baldwin, a writer for the traditionally decent Metro US-New York edition subway paper, found herself in the crosshairs of my rebarbative, media watch dog invective.
Here’s what got it all started (checkout the highlighted text box), followed by my email:
My email:
Dear Ms. Baldwin,
The aside you wrote (Welcome to NYC!) in this morning’s article “Man stabbed to death in E. Village” is one of the more disgusting things I’ve read in a long time. Your trivialization of another human being’s death—reducing it to “Tourists get front-row seat to murder:”—is worthy of a reserved word like heinous.
If you yourself are a resident of NYC, you should be ashamed. Go write for the New York post if you want to turn people’s real suffering–and deaths!–into crappy headline-subhead hooks.
I apologize for the brusque tone of this email, but I think it’s warranted.
Michael Cesari
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