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Thursday, March 05, 2009
Some Brooklyn Bloggers Outraged Over Brooklyn Paper's Coverage of Guskind's Death
Xris Kreussling, the blogger who runs Flatbush Gardener, left the following note in the comment section of the Brooklyn Paper's article, The Death of a Blogger, about Robert Guskind's death. Kreussling, like quite a few other bloggers was outraged by the tone of the article by Mike McLaughlin.
are lowered to NY Post status by this article.
"If you were not his friend, you have no right to speak of him this way.
"If you were his friend, you would never think of doing so.
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"If you haven't read the article, it's god-awful garbage. The Paper is
a piece of trash." -- Xris Kreussling
March 5, 2009 in Robert Guskind and Gowanus Lounge | Permalink
Comments
you'd think gersh kuntzman would try NOT living up to his name. pun intended.
nobody wants your tribute, brooklyn paper, they want you to act like human beings.
Posted by: grumpygirl | Mar 6, 2009 11:02:11 PM
Robert Guskind's site, www.gowanuslounge.com, has been restored to service. Readers are welcome to post memories and comments, which will be moderated.
Posted by: GL friend | Mar 6, 2009 8:54:08 AM
the tone of this piece is terrible - I agree with above criticism.
Posted by: caroline ghertler | Mar 6, 2009 4:19:18 AM
Agreed. It was pretty disgusting and disrespectful.
Posted by: lesterhead | Mar 5, 2009 9:59:39 PM
They have already edited out the more egregious text. Many others left similar comments on the article. They got the message.
Posted by: Xris (Flatbush Gardener) | Mar 5, 2009 2:57:37 PM
Our news article is not an obituary, but coverage of a breaking story that is being updated on the fly.
In due time, The Brooklyn Paper and its Web site will run a true tribute to a man I admired greatly.
I would ask our readers to appreciate that we are putting aside our own emotions about Bob as we report the essential news here. You would expect nothing less on other stories. Please give us that latitude now.
GERSH KUNTZMAN
Editor
Posted by: Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 5, 2009 1:07:00 PM
Wow. Coming from someone who appears in the same newspaper weekly. Ouch.
Posted by: Donald | Mar 5, 2009 12:56:13 PM
