Thursday, February 15, 2007

NY Times Editor Falls for Spoof, Threatens Kid   [John Podhoretz]

Two disc jockeys at a station in Jersey City decided to try and pull one on the New York Times' ever-so-precious Metropolitan Diary, the feature in which readers send in saccharine tales of life in the Big Apple. They got the fake item in, and chortled about it. After which, the column's self-serious editor — a person named Michael Pollak — sent an e-mail to a college-age intern working for the disc jockeys (to whom Pollak had spoken to verify the item) threatening to intervene and block her application for a Fulbright scholarship.

Metropolitan Diary is a light-hearted humor column.

P.S.: One of the disc jockeys is Andy Breckman, whose regular job is writing and producing the great TV show Monk.

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