YM Reclusive: Choire Sicha Calls Vanessa Grigoriadis On Her Big Fat Greek Lying

David Brooks, Vanessa Grigoriadis: Throwing a Fire Party* in Their Pants?

Choire Sicha woke up on the wrong side of a post-Christmas "no views, no food" coma yesterday and rudely nudged YM's hibernating Gawker Obsession. He's such a broadsheet hog. Before we even had a chance to set the toaster oven to the Today Show, he's feverishly pacing the bedroom and boring us with his byzarro dreams, sloppy yawning about one-eyed, wanton lying red-faced media eaters. Apparently his nocturnal cork blew when he felt surrounded by a closing wall of mendacities with no cup to hold his detaching teeth. Follow? I hope not. Background, hit snooze as needed.

What kept us under the covers of this story all day was Choire's ultra-weird sneaky attack on David Brooks. In praising Vanessa Grigoriadis's October (surprise!) Gawker feature in NY magazine as one of the best essays of the year (surprised?), Brooks made the feh-tell mistake of believing and repeating Vanessa's reportage on the history of Gawker employee pay. Aaaaaaah!!! According to Choire, it's "all lies!" but instead of smoking out the quoted source (Vanessa) he goes the proxy newspaper route with a "bad journalism" bong hit on old bag Brooks. (Checked Fact: He's over 45, that's old.)

The liar accusation is pretty serious, LIKE DEAD SERIOUS, in journalistic circles so you better have your shit squared when triangulating a claim. In this ALL-IMPORTANT SCENARIO, it is absurdly reckless to place any blame on Brooks who was just doing a blogger's work of commenting on someone else's piece. So what's the deal with Choire's redirected anger? How does Vanessa G. feel about being called a liar? Why didn't Choire correct her when the article originally surfaced? Or now? Was a correction even needed? Is the information actually false? (I remember when pay was the equivalent of $8.33/post and pay-for-performance has never been a secret.) Does that make Choire THE LIAR?? <--Questions!

*Link added to maintain our music cred, though I'm sure 99 would have preferred if it was Scrawl.