August 02, 2004

Cindy Adams doesn't hate Boston... nearly as much as Boston hates her. Have you ever seen a "top-shelf" news paper/website expend this much effort to make one has-been NYC gossip columnist to task?
posted by es el Queso 20 years ago
  • ugh, TAKE not MAKE.
  • Damn. All the subtlety of a big middle finger, but funny stuff. This Boston/NYC thing goes deeper than just a little baseball rivalry, doesn't it?
  • Wow. Doesn't that seem like just a liiiittle bit more trouble than it was worth?
  • Wow. Doesn't that seem like just a liiiittle bit more trouble than it was worth? No, because the intended audience loved it. This was a big forward for people in the Boston area today. Which is good for an ad revenue site.
  • Boston's had a beef with New Yorkers for years and vice-versa. The fact that they savaged Cindy and that fishwrapper with pictures they call the Post doesn't bother most New Yorkers one bit though. The subway thing, however? Nice of them to show a pic of a train from 1983 and compare it to the T of today.
  • Bad ideas: Jumping from 20ft up, onto concrete, and expecting to walk away from it. Looking down the barrel of a gun to find out if it is unloaded. Criticizing any city large enough to have its own newspaper. Backlash from your criticism is inevitable if enough people know who you are. I would think that a gossip columnist would know this, but maybe that's why she did it.
  • Well, it's made her more well known, so I guess it all worked. Gossip columns and magazines annoy me so much - probably because I'm not in them, and I almost never understand who the people in them are.