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Putting stock in snark

MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman wraps up his three-part series on snark (I shit you not) this morning with a feature on Gawker, including an interview with editors Jessica Coen and Jesse Oxfeld.

Our favorite segment–when Friedman calls out Coen and Oxfeld for sloppiness–citing only one example, derived from his own Gawker experience:

The heavy workload can contribute to occasional sloppiness. Gawker commented on a Jan. 4 column in which I speculated about who’s in and who’s out in the media. I’d said that because of MSNBC’s “serious improvement,” Fox “could feel a pinch.”

Gawker’s unappealing interpretation: “Jon Friedman is clearly smoking crack, as proved by (among other things) his prediction that MSNBC will beat CNN and Fox News in 2006.” (Among those “other things,” I’d suggested that Gawker was “in” and the New York Post’s gossippy “Page Six was “out.”)

When I good-naturedly protested Gawker’s account of what I’d written, Oxfeld dismissed me by saying I was “splitting hairs.”

Three years worth of Gawking, and that’s the best you can do for ’sloppiness’? No wonder this whole journalism thing is going down the tubes.

This entry was posted by Kyle Bunch on Friday, January 13th, 2006 at 11:09 am and is filed under Gawker Media, Jesse Oxfeld, Jessica Coen. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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