What Brian is talking about is the author tag that The Awl editors add to essays. If you don’t specifically request one, which I never have, you just get whatever they feel like. So, Brian’s PRO TIP about concluding an essay is barking up the wrong tree and he should take it up with Awl editors Alex Balk and Choire Sicha. Yes, Since he’s giving out PRO TIPS, one might think he’d already know that. Anyway, congratulations on your mature reaction to your mistake, I’m sure Choire, who wrote that author tag, is impressed.
Update: I didn’t name the column either you dipshit.
And, further, I’m not a pro. If the pros were doing their job with this story, my reporting wouldn’t be necessary. For all five Target pieces (at least 10,000 words) I’ve filed at The Awl (below) I’ve been reimbursed exactly $0.
Target doesn’t support gay rights because it never did.
A Profile of Tom Emmer and his claims
A look at Target’s $150,000 for MN Forward
A look at Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel’s Hypocrisy
A look at the HRC’s flawed CEI rankings
A talk with Taylor Carick, proprietor of the great Minnesota blog Crazyinternetbeatz.com.
“What does diversity really mean anyway? Diversity means a whole bunch
of things that are neither one extreme or another. So, it means
“average.” Now, you tell me, who wants to be average? Not North Dakotan
children. The book has a section on film, painting by numbers, beat
sugar manufacturing and the filthy, depraved art of square dancing.”
Read It
Look, it’s clearly asking The New York Times too much to link, but can they at least, in a media column for Christsake, get the name right? David Carr certainly doesn’t tell people he works for New York Times. It’s THE New York Times. Just as it is The Awl.
The Awl should put logos on these and sell them in its Cafe Press store.
Want to lessen your opinion of American Public Media’s Marketplace Money program? Then listen to me talk to Tess Vigelnd (below) about the March Tuition Madness piece over at The Awl.
There is a lot of advice going around about what people can do to help in Haiti. The conventional advice is don’t give anything except money. This is good advice—unless you have a helicopter. If you have a helicopter or know of someone who has access to a helicopter, perhaps you can do something for one physician, one physician’s assistant and one optometrist cut off from assistance as they operate a makeshift operating room set up in a church in Gressier, about ten miles west of Port-au-Prince.
READ IT ALL
Related: Hey Fox News (and other media organizations), stop complaining that your planes full of reporters cannot land in Port-au-Prince. The FAA has halted flights landing in Haiti due to a logjam at the airport and you are fucking up aide for everyone by being part of that bottleneck. Fuck you in your collective Anderson Coopers. And no, “bringing awareness to the situation” does not constitute “doing your part.”
In case the (comprehensive) coverage of the unfolding Haiti disaster over at Reuters is too antiseptic and lacks first-person desperation, below is an email from doctors who were already there working at a clinic just outside Port-au-Prince:
We are ok call family members tell them we are ok. Tell them to contact EVERYONE’s family and churches from their group and tell them we are ok.
Please reply to us ASAP tell us if the airport is open and when help from other countries are coming.
many tremors, many haitians hurt. we have triage here in our yard…pray for the docs and nurses here ALL NIGHT. most buildings are not ok at Christianville. Our house seems fine with one crack on NON-weight-bearing wall. we are staying outside until the tremors end. we were told the last AA flight didn’t leave Miami….can you please confirm for sure? I have 4 women that were suppost to be on that flight. Team Leaders name is Kelle M….. R. please call her family to find out. I need to get our visitors out ASAP….please let us know about the airport…. ALSO please EVERYONE…do not flood us with emails. Only info that we need to know.
please pray.
a.
I’m told the clinics will soon run out of supplies and that they will be treating people well into the future. The particular group above can be reached here: Haiti Health Ministries. They accept donations of everything from money to pharmaceuticals to gauze to baby formula.
UPDATE: Below is from another doctor with the same group:
i’m ok, and so is R. and N. [the author’s infant daughter]. our house sustained damage (cracks, flooding, everything off the shelves) but didn’t fall down. J. and S.’s house (where i used to live) fell down. so did part of the clinic, the eye clinic, and all of the schools. the guesthouse is still standing, as well as our house and A. and D.’s house. everyone else lost their house. we worked all night trying to help people, and are still working today. it’s like being in hell… people dying on your doorstep, limbs falling off, gashes and paralysis and everything you’d see in war. all the missionaries here are ok, only a few bumps and bruises as they scrambled to get out of their houses. R. and N. and i were outside when it happened, so we were ok. D. and L. are ok, too.that’s all the update i can give you for now, because i’ve got to go back to more chaos. thank the Lord E. is here to take care of N. while R. and i work.
love you guys,
t
I did. An angry, angry, angry award.
Above is a video game in the basement of the Grand Forks bar O’Reilly’s. It is named “Bags.” Apparently, the place used to be the worst strip club on the face of the earth. Anyway, this game! Do people really want to play a video game version of bean bag toss? Really? Is the game such a local favorite that during winter when it’s too cold outside, fans make do with this? Bizarre.
