Lileks fisked, of all things, Adam Gopnik’s New Yorker piece
about Times Square:
“It’s not filled by media images that supplant the experience of real things.”
Neither is my back yard or toilet bowl or left kidney; lots of things are not filled by media images that supplant the experience of real things. Folks, let me tell you: when you reach a certain level in an organization, you can write things like that, and the copy desk shrugs and says “whatever.” Because it’s Opinion, it’s Creative, it’s the Star Writer on a tear, and you don’t step in to point out the emperor is not only buck-fargin’ naked, he’s wearing white before Memorial Day….
Bang. Crunch. Thump. Oooh!
Read the whole thing here.