If you publicly refer to a Globe reporter's story as the sort of crap that would entitle one of your own readers to kick your sorry behind, don't be surprised if the Globe reporter fires back (click for the media insults, but stay for Geoff Edgers's mea culpa on the second half of the story).
Kat Powers, editor at the Somerville Journal, reads Globie Geoff Edgers's piece about second jobs - in which he spends a day on a UPS truck and then another as a fast-food cashier to see how the other half lives - and begs of you:
Dear reader, please kick my butt if I ever write anything like the elitist crap I just read about having a second job.
Thomas Garvey uses Excel to prove that, on his Exhibitionist blog, Globe arts reporter Geoff Edgers mainly covers non-Boston or Bigfoot Boston stuff:
Posts about events or organizations based outside Boston: 55%
Posts about the BSO, MFA, CitiCenter, or Boston Ballet: 40%
Posts about Ray Davies and/or the Kinks: 15%
Posts about local arts events: 15%
Posts about smaller organizations: 5%
Edgers replies, says he didn't realize he was covering the Kinks that much
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