See if you can identify the
douchebag from the line-up of photos below!
#1:
Done? If you chose #1, "
The Suspicious-Looking Cat-Brandishing Lady," you are correct! You've identified
Anne Tallent, editor of
b, Baltimore's potty-mouthedest free-tabloid!
See, what she did was, is she printed the word "douchebag" on the cover of
b, the
Baltimore Sun's free daily* (*weekends not included) for the mentally handicapped. Wanna see it? Behold!
Even worse:
Want to read it?
So it actually got printed on Tuesday, September 16, and then, oddly, many people were all like, "WTF? You can't drop that word on the cover of a real paper, no matter how insipid and crappy and designed for people who are flummoxed by
Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader it is!" And some of those people are reporters at the big boy paper, and they wrote to the editor of that equally-befucked up publication. They complained. And they cc:d Tallent, because they don't respect her and her gross little free paper ("Speculation, your honor!" "Sustained!"), and knew it would piss her off. Ding!
So
she wrote a retort, which used this logic: the Sun reporters weren't allowed to be offended by the word, because b's readers use it "differently." And I think she also implied that they were old and therefore prone to offense-taking from "new ideas." And also ZING she totally sniped at them for going to the big boss with their whining. Oh also, she showed those old fogies! She pointed them right to where they stole this dim-witted idea from (thanks
Radar!) Which somehow validates it? Thus, douchebag.
Hmm. Looking back on it now, I guess this quiz was a little too easy.
UPDATE: And so was my joke.
Former Sun staffer Dan Fesperman posted this to Poynter.org:
If that's the way Anne feels, then I guess she won't mind a bit that my reaction to her memo is: "Wow, what a douchebag."
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