Subliminal Justice 101
Perhaps you've heard of the new celebrity crime tabloid Justice or even read our review of the magazine's debut issue on Mediabistro. Yeah, we hacked through it like a gang in Tambaram, India getting revenge on an accused murderer out on bail and left it resembling a sopping sack of human tartare. We had some fun, showed no mercy, probably pissed off anyone involved with the magazine, but the court of public opinion is not governed by any agreed set of laws or absolute, if sometimes flawed, decisions of right and wrong, innocence and guilt.
Rachel Sklar, who writes the FishbowlNY blog on Mediabistro, fires back with a rebuttal for the defense. Her review is significantly more "balanced" though I'm not entirely sure of its "fairness" with the seemingly big disclaimer in very small print: "The publicist for Justice Magazine is Rachel Pine, "Twins of Tribeca" author and friend of mine." I dunno, maybe she trashes her friends when she feels they deserve it (we certainly do even when our friends don't deserve it) but I'm still a little uneasy with the premise.
See, we find it best to not have friends in media if you plan to do objective criticism. Sure, you'll lose access and expensed lunches at Michael's, but you'll serve the public more effectively and sleep better at night (even if your AC is broken and your bedroom feels like a freekin' rainforest in this heat). We are citizen media critics, in every sense of each word. We're not professionals, have no code of conduct other than to tell the truth and respect the...
JUSTICE H. CHRIST!! WE WERE JOKING!!! WE LOVE YOU GUYS! Or, at least we dig the basic concept of your magazine. It was all a desperate attempt to attract attention so you would hire us. If it worked for that Gawkerist hobo, surely we could pull it off too. Do we suck that much? Don't answer. Please, let's have lunch first. We'll go through Robert Blake's trash every week or organize a Superbowl tickets celebrity sting if that's what it takes. We're that serious about our desire to not be taken seriously.
Update: Rachel Sklar did nothing inappropiate. It was just the set-up of my joke that fell flatter than an opened can of beer left in the sun for 8 hours. Is anybody reading this? Hello?
Rachel Sklar, who writes the FishbowlNY blog on Mediabistro, fires back with a rebuttal for the defense. Her review is significantly more "balanced" though I'm not entirely sure of its "fairness" with the seemingly big disclaimer in very small print: "The publicist for Justice Magazine is Rachel Pine, "Twins of Tribeca" author and friend of mine." I dunno, maybe she trashes her friends when she feels they deserve it (we certainly do even when our friends don't deserve it) but I'm still a little uneasy with the premise.
See, we find it best to not have friends in media if you plan to do objective criticism. Sure, you'll lose access and expensed lunches at Michael's, but you'll serve the public more effectively and sleep better at night (even if your AC is broken and your bedroom feels like a freekin' rainforest in this heat). We are citizen media critics, in every sense of each word. We're not professionals, have no code of conduct other than to tell the truth and respect the...
JUSTICE H. CHRIST!! WE WERE JOKING!!! WE LOVE YOU GUYS! Or, at least we dig the basic concept of your magazine. It was all a desperate attempt to attract attention so you would hire us. If it worked for that Gawkerist hobo, surely we could pull it off too. Do we suck that much? Don't answer. Please, let's have lunch first. We'll go through Robert Blake's trash every week or organize a Superbowl tickets celebrity sting if that's what it takes. We're that serious about our desire to not be taken seriously.
Update: Rachel Sklar did nothing inappropiate. It was just the set-up of my joke that fell flatter than an opened can of beer left in the sun for 8 hours. Is anybody reading this? Hello?
posted by krucoff at 1:12 AM
