Pink Shirts and Poor Journalism
I never know quite what to make of articles like this one, about a bar for rich assholes. On one hand, it's amusing, particularly when they brag about what they think are elite colleges. On the other hand, it's disgusting the way the Times casually reports about their lives, as if it's normal and acceptable for people to behave this way. It reminds me of a piece about women who drink while pregnant (I think it was in the Times, but I'm not sure). The piece was infuriating in its tone. It wasn't a news story about how some women are irresponsible bitches. Rather, it was a lifestyle story about "the way we live." Their behavior was reported the same way you might report that more and more people are trying yoga.
On some level, maybe it's all ironic, and I just don't get the joke. I don't think so, though. Either way, one effect of this kind of blowjob coverage is that it makes rich people look worse than they are. Plenty of rich people live their lives without making asses of themselves, but they don't get profiled in clever little lifestyle stories.
Maybe it's a New York thing. Oh, well. Another reason to hate the city.
On some level, maybe it's all ironic, and I just don't get the joke. I don't think so, though. Either way, one effect of this kind of blowjob coverage is that it makes rich people look worse than they are. Plenty of rich people live their lives without making asses of themselves, but they don't get profiled in clever little lifestyle stories.
Maybe it's a New York thing. Oh, well. Another reason to hate the city.
posted by James | 4:05 PM
3 Comments:
I agree that the piece was annoyingly written (and indeed perhaps should not have been written at all, although it sorta fits into the Times mandate of covering bars and restaurants). But I don't especially think the behavior described was especially jerky. I probably won't ever go to this bar, and I probably wouldn't like most of the people they interviewed, but I think you're basically blaming the victims of the Times's embarrassing coverage.
This stands in sharp contrast to the drinking-while-pregnant article, where the writer in effect condoned some pretty horrible behavior.
Yeah, you're right, it's not on the same level as drinking while pregnant. It's mostly just obnoxious that people behave this way, but as I said to Alan, they're playing a game that makes sense on its own terms.
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