Jones gives good blog?

Much thanks Bubs but Al Green is all I need to make 21 melt.

DD is my homeboy. We reached peace a while back.

 

Over the past six months I've clicked on about ten of Cook's posts. I think he wrote a long piece about somebody called "The Montauk Grifter." But the fact is I don't like Gawker enough to deign spending more than 10 minutes at a time on their site. So I don't really care if that story was any good. The Gawker site is radioactive.

That being said, there were two recent posts of his which I liked:

The first was about the importance of writers' integrity--and I was intrigued because I've always had a nagging dislike for both David Sedaris and David Foster Wallace, and I felt that Cook articulated well what they have in common: http://gawker.com/5894913/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-larger-truth-this-american-lifes-rich-history-of-embellishment.

The second post was about The Oregonian firing a reporter because she chose not to disclose that her colleague had died of a heart attack while having an affair. Cook sides with the fired reporter. And at the end he states: "Transparency is an extremely good and extremely important value to adhere to. So is a commitment to candor and accuracy. So is not being a heartless fuck." (http://gawker.com/5893891/paper-fires-reporter-for-being-insufficiently-monstrous)

So, taken out of context, he sounds like a principled writer who values truth and integrity. But I acknowledge, also, that it's impossible to be principled at Gawker. So does that make him a hypocrite? He talks about the "value of accuracy", and meanwhile he writes stuff like the Jones post. But still...you can't call someone a hypocrite if they don't have relevant principles.

 

Still waiting on that link, Roland.

 

Al Green is the shit. Here I Am (Come And Take Me) might be the best soul song of the early 70s. Can't believe I don't own the Call Me album.

 

Damnit, I knew I shouldn't have held off on that reference.

 

Perhaps if Jones owned that album in his single days, we could have avoided this whole situation.

 

Talkin' about the man.

 

But doesn't ESPN have a bit of a slot machine mentality? It seems like somewhat of a contradiction. The poor kid is probably really confused with the mixed message that you are sending him. He wonders who Chris Jones really is. Is he the guy who writes riveting and sometimes tear jerker portraits such as the one about Joe Montgomery? Is he the talented back page columnist at ESPN who is making people fast forget Rick Reilly or is he the guy who writes the provocative and somewhat misogynistic frat boy humor stories in Esquire?

Who is Chris Jones, that is the central question here.

 

It's all I need.

 

Zeke - this count? http://gawker.com/5897485/

Unless I'm reading it wrong, that's their SCOOP. Not an insignificant one either.

Also: You've got your Zevon wrong. The sonofabitch Van Owen is in Mombassa. I'm in Palestine and Berkeley. I'm guessing Gawker writers are somewhere in the last verse of "Splendid Isolation."

As for what I think you're insinuating - nah. I'm a lurker going back to the days of baked chicken gags (ah memories). Just a guy who'll cop to enjoying rowdy tabloid journalism now and then.

 

That's a recap of a 4chan thread... A worthwhile one, yes.

In-depth journalism?

And I wasn't insinuating anything. Just like Zevon, is all.