nick sylvester = maker upper

In its March 30 issue, The Village Voice broke a shocking story connecting the growth of US-aided Muslim militance in Afghanistan with the February bombing of the World Trade Center.

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In March of this year, the Village Voice broke exclusive new details of a special IBM wartime subsidiary set up in Poland by IBM's New York headquarters shortly after Hitler's 1939 invasion.

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First, there was the story the Village Voice broke about the Mayor's aides allegedly offering a $144,000/year job to former City Councilman Thomas Ognibene in order not to run against Mayor Bloomberg in the GOP primary.

- its not a serious paper or anything

"Disclaimer: With the exception of the MP3 and verifiable band bio, this entire entry is probably made up."

instead of smiling knowingly at the bravado - "Hey, I'm on this kid's radar, cute"

how would you feel if a big newspaper printed a story saying you were in new york when you weren't? how would your wife + family feel?

it wouldn't work. they would hear me snoring on the couch.

JIMMY: YES I AM ADDICTED TO IT

RIFF: WOULD YOU SAY YOU ARE "CUCKOO" FOR IT

JIMMY: ...

You know you've hit bottom when Tom Smith is lecturing you about ethics.

2) fluffpiece/lifestyle feature 'journalist' fate (neil strauss, tom junod, richard meltzer) - positive: nothing negative happens to yr career. negative: this means you're still a fluffpiece/lifestyle feature 'journalist'. positive: except now you're better paid. negative: you become an even bigger asshole.

Janet Cooke worked at a department store for like 20 years or something!

Also: Yes, yes, we know about that essentially useless Editor’s Note. More on that TK later.

Hmmm.

Is there anything Nick's written for the voice that hasn't had some sort of parody disclaimer or was at least written in the guise of being a gossipy music article?

I am going to steal the fuck out of that.

Isn't it pronounced "Gee" though?

xpos YES

i'm sure that's been the gameplan since his freshman year.

xpost

maybe a reader-submitted mcsweeneys list too?

um, this story?

i know all the facts aren't out, so it's hard to judge this situation completely. but i'm kinda weirded out by people making the "c'mon-they-should've-known" defense. even if you think the editors should've known -- which is a stretch, and you'd need to know what kind of talk went on between reporter and editors -- there's no way the reader can know. and yeah, it's fluff. guess what? writing good fluff is hard. having the right quotes, the right anecdotes, it takes work like anything else. making shit up is making shit up.

By Nick Sylvester

Use slang I can't understand.

Be from the south, or at least, Virginia.

Have avant garde minimalist production.

Wear Bathing Ape sometimes, if not a bucket hat.

Be poor and Black.

Capital "B," cuz.