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Sunday, June 29, 2008 --- 67 days ago http://deadspin.com/5020293/the-inevitable-evolution-of-one-william-f-leitch
 In early 2001, I was middling through a job at Thomson Financial Media as managing editor of “Health Care Finance” magazine. It was a quarterly publication, which meant plenty of downtime. It was during these extended lulls, reading MediaBistro, that I stumbled upon the ongoing unemployment saga of one William F. Leitch and his “Life As A Loser” series . MB did an item about one of Will’s columns, “ He Hate Me ”, where young William spoke of his time as a media news aggregator for Brill’s All-Star Newspaper, a mindless, Romenesko rip-off site-job that had absurdly garnered him an anonymous email stalker named Grady Olivier, who would pepper Will’s email box with brilliant daily reminders of Will’s consistent awfulness: ....We’ll begin today with your overreliance on the colon. Please provide a compelling rationale/rationalization for your need to use one every third sentence. Also, why did you hyphenate “front line” in the pull to the Ian Fisher piece? “A pair,” as in the Levin bit, would properly take the third person singular. You misspelled “government” in the Pomfret lead, you melon-headed motherfucker. There’s also the issue of your questionable comma usage in your intro to Mr. Hiaasen’s piece of February 28...Please resign your tenure as early as possible, making sure to apologize to Mr. Brill for your gross stupidity when collecting your severance. I was hooked. At that time, I think I was more drawn to Grady Olivier’s well-craf ... |
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