In this weekend's The Weekend Australian, Elizabeth Meryment's Food Detective column refers to a February 4 story from the New York Times about the growing influence of foodbloggers.
Ms Meryment writes: '... the Times story makes disheartening reading for those in the restaurant trade because it centres on the antics of one exceedingly annoying creature, self-dubbed Restaurant Girl, a nobody "former actress" by the name of Danyelle Freeman, who is trying to get herself noticed by reviewing restaurants on their opening nights.'
The NYT article reported that the blog had been the first to break the news that the Russian Tea Room was re-opening.
But the New York Times was wrong, and issued a correction on February 11.
It's deliciously ironic that newspapers frowning at the caprices of bloggers trip up on their own big, goofy, mainstream-media feet.
At least the New York Times corrects its mistakes. Papers here never seem to get around to it. I wrote an piece for The Sunday Age once and they printed my name wrongly as Paul Kelly. I rang the editor.
'Thanks for running my story,' I told her.
'That's all right,' the editor replied. 'Did it look all right in print?'
'It looked great in print. I love Times New Roman nearly as much as as I love Helvetica, and that's saying a lot. Just one thing,' I added.
'What's that?' she asked.
'If I'm going to be Paul Kelly, which Paul Kelly do you want me to be - the singer, the football player, or the Editor-in-Chief of The Australian?'
She was lost for a reply. I'm still waiting for a correction.
Ms Meryment writes: '... the Times story makes disheartening reading for those in the restaurant trade because it centres on the antics of one exceedingly annoying creature, self-dubbed Restaurant Girl, a nobody "former actress" by the name of Danyelle Freeman, who is trying to get herself noticed by reviewing restaurants on their opening nights.'
The NYT article reported that the blog had been the first to break the news that the Russian Tea Room was re-opening.
But the New York Times was wrong, and issued a correction on February 11.
It's deliciously ironic that newspapers frowning at the caprices of bloggers trip up on their own big, goofy, mainstream-media feet.
At least the New York Times corrects its mistakes. Papers here never seem to get around to it. I wrote an piece for The Sunday Age once and they printed my name wrongly as Paul Kelly. I rang the editor.
'Thanks for running my story,' I told her.
'That's all right,' the editor replied. 'Did it look all right in print?'
'It looked great in print. I love Times New Roman nearly as much as as I love Helvetica, and that's saying a lot. Just one thing,' I added.
'What's that?' she asked.
'If I'm going to be Paul Kelly, which Paul Kelly do you want me to be - the singer, the football player, or the Editor-in-Chief of The Australian?'
She was lost for a reply. I'm still waiting for a correction.
Couldn't you just be each one as it best suited you through the day? When you're watching Play-school with the boys you can be Paul Kelly the singer. Feeling active and sporty? Paul Kelly the footy player time. Wordy and intelligent? Editor-In-Chief Paul Kelly at your service. LOL!
ReplyDeleteRDM, I'd probably want to be the football player most of the time, except he played for the wrong team.
ReplyDeleteI used to drive long distances in the late eighties and early nineties with my grown up children in the car, all singing along to Paul Kelly's great music on the tape player.