{"id":9690,"date":"2011-12-01T19:39:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T00:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=9690"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:14:30","slug":"gawker-explains-the-absurd-awfulness-of-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/quote-of-the-day\/12\/01\/gawker-explains-the-absurd-awfulness-of-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Gawker Explains The Absurd Awfulness Of The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5864214\/why-you-should-never-be-profiled-by-the-new-york-times-style-section\">Perfectly on point<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>See, the secret of the Style section is that it&#8217;s intended for two audiences. The first audience is its &#8220;official,&#8221; explicit audience: people who see nothing problematic with being told by The New York Times what&#8217;s cool, and think of the Style section is a straight-ahead, unironic record of hip trends and cool people. This is the audience that most people imagine when they okay a Style section profile.<\/p>\n<p>But then there is the second, &#8220;secret&#8221; audience: everyone else. This audience, of which you are a member, is both mesmerized and repelled by the Style section. Its reaction, week after week, is &#8220;what the fuck is wrong with rich people?&#8221; To the secret audience, the Style section is full of dispatches from a different universe; a universe where some of the most horrible and insufferable people on the planet are treated as visionaries and geniuses. 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The first audience is its &#8220;official,&#8221; explicit audience: people who see nothing problematic with being told by The New York Times what&#8217;s cool, and think of the Style section is a straight-ahead, unironic record of hip trends and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gawker Explains The Absurd Awfulness Of The New York Times - Prose Before Hos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Perfectly on point: See, the secret of the Style section is that it&#039;s intended for two audiences. 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