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Is This Actually Gossip?

Isn't the New York Post's Page Six supposed to be filled with gossip? That's what I thought... until I read this about Gawker co-editor Jessica Coen:

Unknown outside the dork-infested waters of the Blogosphere, her name is Jessica Coen, and she's the co-editor of Gawker.com, where she regurgitates newspaper and magazine stories and slathers them in supposedly witty sarcasm. Every time we bump into Coen, 25, who likes to accessorize with a stuffed dog poking out of her handbag, she smiles and showers us with sycophantic praise. But her every mention of PAGE SIX on her Web site is snide and snarky. Word to Coen: Next time you see us at a party, keep walking. Or slithering. You can't be a boot-licker and a back-stabber at the same time.

Where's the gossip here?

Jessica, of course, has an amusing response critiquing the Page Six item up on her personal weblog. For example, she suggests instead of constantly calling her snarky, saying instead she's "contemptous, irritable, cranky, cocky, insolent, sneering."

· Gawk at This [Page Six, reg req'd]
· Hello! [JessicaCoen.com]
· Gawker Archive: Page Six [Gawker]

Posted in Media on July 17, 2005, 11:51 PM | Permalink

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