Ok, so I must comment on Emily Gould’s recent NYTimes piece, Exposed, in part because I really enjoyed it and in part because people keep sending it to me.

I read the piece expecting to hate it — as some of you know, I have a knee-jerk frustration response to the microcosm of media in New York. I just get irked that someone can pee in a jar and drink it in New York and suddenly it’s world news with a six figure book deal and a reality show and we’re all fascinated because did you see that? Someone in New York peed in a jar and drank it!, while meanwhile you can have an entire small town of collective urine drinkers in, say, Michigan and no one notices or cares. I’m talking about things like the Save Karyn book here.

Despite going in with this bitter perspective, ready to hate Emily Gould for all her New York media myopia, I actually came out of the article with deep sense of compassion and empathy for her. I related to many portions of the article, for instance her relationship with Gawker commenters:
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