Take Bacon, Add Sausage, Blog/It’s the Economy, Girlfr

flo

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/dining/28bacon.html

In case any of you kids haven't read this yet. Seems like a topic people might be interested in here.

MOD

Oh yeah I've seen this thing on different blogs. It's typical for fucking NYT to be a year behind any news or interest story.

regardless. I'll eat that.

flo

Not sure that a story on bacon or on blogging about bacon is really what the Times ought to do best or first or ought to be focusing on. Kind of think that things like this are what we need them to be doing best:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/series/toxicpipeline/index.html

Still--I could just be a sucker for the traditional news medium. I couldn't help but laugh though when I saw the article.

MOD

I'm in full agreement. There's an interesting article in the last NYMag on the new young people they hired to head the online direction of the website. They are basically using blogging techniques and turning the site into more of a common person, interactive information medium. Not really hard hitting news, if you ask me. And even their local news stories seem to be second hand. Gothamist or other sites break the stories first.

So who's going to cook us this bacon pork thing?? I'm hungry!

pitu

This strikes me as less than the sum of its parts.
But more interesting than the bitching of the wives and girlfriends of busted bankers
"It’s the Economy, Girlfriend"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/nyregion/28daba.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

flo

Agree-- "It's the Economy Girlfriend" was truly awful. Seemed like one of those articles in Page Six on Sunday where they report on mothers having chicken pox parties in Park Slope. One thing for sure--it's increasingly hard for me to tell when something is "real" or "faux" news. Tell me that the following sentence could not be published in The Onion--

"For Christine Cameron, the recession became real when the financial analyst she had been dating for about a year would get drunk and disappear while they were out together, then accuse her the next day of being the one who had absconded."

pitu

On the other hand, it's nice that the Times is writing about the concerns of sex workers.
:twisted: :cheers:

flo

http://jezebel.com/5140768/daba-girls-aint-messing-with-no-broke-bankers

speaking of sex...these gals are everywhere.

What has me curious is how or why these ladies and their particular blog is getting this attention.

flo

http://gothamist.com/2009/01/28/bankers_girlfriends_form_support_gr.php

Looks like Gothamist got the story from The Times here. Still, I'm curious about the original piece. Why was this the fodder of the day? If its true that the ladies who write the blog are in the media business, I wonder if they know the reporter who wrote the original story. If not, they certainly knew how to get his attention and apparently a lotlotlot of other attention.

Again, I'm half-convinced that this is some kind of hoax. I mean the daba website is only a few months old and has very few postings and few comments, so how or why was the journalist drawn to this story?

flo

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/01/defending_the_dating_a_banker.html

Now it's a phenomena.

flo

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/01/look_muffy_a_blog_for_us.html#comments

Origins? Is this the beginning of the phenomenon? Please tell me this is the result of a virus.

flo

I can't turn away from this traffic accident.

NPR blogger convinced its all a hoax:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2009/01/is_dating_a_banker_anonymous_f.html

Gawker tears apart Dawn Spinner:

http://gawker.com/5141956/dawn-spinner-davis-daba-girl-and-sad-symbol-of-our-times

Someone ought to interview the New York magazine blogger who wrote the original post and the writer of the NY Times story. I'm not as interested in talking about the blog as I am in the origins of this story.

pitu

Flo wrote: I can't turn away from this traffic accident.

NPR blogger convinced its all a hoax:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2009/01/is_dating_a_banker_anonymous_f.html

i-m....a little disappointed

flo

Pitu- Mediabistro's Fishbowl site is weighing in now too. I hope someone unravels the story. I think they gotta start with the original blogger on New York magazine's Intel blog first though.

It's not the most important news story of the day, but I admit a fascination with stories about insiders manipulating the news or a story about what is behind the hype. It stinks of a PR scheme.

pitu

links! links!

(I've completely ceded the wall street disgruntled sex worker watch to you, and I'm hoping you keep providing the links)

flo

Well pitu...I am still waiting for the nuts and bolts story on this...but as a side note according to those in the know, the Page Six magazine in the Post is a done deal..Can't say I'll miss it, but I am sorry to hear people are out of work.

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/breaking_news/page_six_magazine_eic_only_staffer_to_remain_as_weekly_goes_quarterly_107278.asp

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/media_people/did_the_nyt_get_punkd_by_the_daba_girls_107243.asp

flo

http://uk.reuters.com/article/marketsNewsUS/idUKN2930001320090129?pageNumber=1

flo

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/01/28/sex_stock_market/

flo

Am a bit wasted and need to go to bed. Hope you have enjoyed, Pitu. Seems to me that there are a lot of pretty good writers out there writing about absolute shit, but hey, I'm a bit wasted. G'night.

flo

http://jezebel.com/5142762/banker+dater-laney-daba-crowell-fired-by-fashion-website

And on it goes. So far no word that the Times reporter lost any work.

carnivore

voodoonyc

Ha! Brilliant, Carny.

flo

Liked that Carny. Had a feeling that in the end this might come back to bacon.

flo

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2009/02/the_new_york_times_responds_to.html

This just in..Times "reporter" (quotes for sartastic accent only) met the girls at a party. That kills me. I think I am in love with this NPR blogger for answering my question about this story. I just had a feeling this was an inside job. Here's to hoping I won't be reading too many more breaking news stories by Ravi Somaiya and his friends.