Michael Jackman of the Metro Times has a response to Gawker for this week's online conversation among staffers about what should be done with Detroit.
Jackman did not like the Gawker "campfire chat." His feelings are best summed up by three of his words:
Fuck these guys!
Jackman also wrote:
Bobby Ferguson
After reading this crap, don’t you wish these fuckers could be kidnapped, blindfolded and dropped off in a tuxedo at the corner of Dexter and Richton at 2 a.m.? It’s enough to make you want to break Bobby Ferguson,* right, out of the federal pen just so he can go give these self-absorbed twits a Detroit-style pistol-whipping.
Jackman writes in a blog post that he enjoyed Gawker in the past because of its penchant for "taking the piss out of self-important figures."
These jaded news-watchers have usually trained their sights on celebrities, moguls and other gasbags, with satisfactory results.
But then we looked at a piece about Detroit in Gawker this week and thought, “That’s some seriously stupid bullshit right there.
The “article” in question was the content of a “campfire” chat between various bloggers about what was to be done about Detroit. And it shows that the folks who write for Gawker shouldn’t comment on stuff they obviously don’t know or really care about.
That’s because the “article,” which the editors probably thought was a snarky, irreverent, laugh-a-minute chat that would stand on its own as a Gawker post, was a piece of offensive, self-important horseshit. Anybody who knows humor knows that, to be really funny, you only pick on big people, never little ones.
"But that news hasn’t been passed on to the people at Gawker. They exhibit a passing familiarity with the issues facing Detroit, all while flaming one another and spitballing ideas any Detroiter would find offensive."
Note to New Yorkers: Bobby Ferguson really does pistol-whip people. But don't worry. He's in federal prison for a couple of decades.
