Answer: no, it’s not cool. Plus it assumes that the person owes you response - which they don’t, and especially not if you seem pre-determined to write a hit piece about them, as this writer was probably pretty clearly always intending to do.

Yeah, that’s really, really not okay to do to people who haven’t consented to its use. And very weird that a reporter who has spent a lot of her time on this site covering the “consent” beat would a) not think twice about using it and b) would have so little clue that its use would be controversial that she just…

Coincidentally I learned about this earlier this week from a coworker who casually mentioned that she does it and I honestly thought it was a thing everyone knew about and was doing except for me, so I pretended I understood while internally screaming. Glad others feel the same way I felt when I learned about it.

You sure a couple mean emails betweening feuding journalists from 2015 was worth all this work? 

I know she opened them because for professional emails, I use a tracking service, which shows how often they were opened; the service showed that Duca viewed every email multiple times from her iPhone, her Gmail account, and another mail client.

Intro: there’s been drama.
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Journalism drama
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Coworker drama
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Email drama
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Twitter drama
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Conclusion: there’s been drama.

How to turn off image display in Gmail to prevent the sort of tracking shown in this article:

Between this and the histrionic Charlotte Wilder article over on Deadspin it’s “Go Way Harder Than Necessary About Some Inside Baseball Nonsense” Day at GMG.

I appreciate that the main point of this article is Lauren Duca in general, but hold on:

I’m trying to see what she did that’s so horrible, beyond calling someone at work fat and some shitty tweets she’s apologised for.

Everyone fails a purity test at some point.
Constantly purging everyone for some evermore exacting standard of ideological purity seems self-defeating and a waste of energy, badly needed…

Lauren Duca (maybe) got drunk at a work party and did some stupid shit in 2015. It (probably) led to her moving on from HuffPo.  Since then, she’s gone viral and moved up in the world, but “everybody” (the media cliques running around on the east coast) still subtweets about her stupid shit. Jezebel’s tired of the…

Did you just write a 4,500 word story about how a young woman who has become a figurehead for the resistance for other young women once wrote some bitchy anonymous emails when she was 23?

This isn’t a site for women, it’s a site for feminists, which is a position men can hold. Saying this as a woman.

He’ll probably try to co-opt it... 

Psychological abuse is also abuse. It doesn’t have to a criminal offense to be something we can acknowledge as bad behavior.

I think he’s an amazing songwriter and performer. I love almost everything he’s done, own most of his stuff on vinyl, and I’ve seen him live three or four times. That being said, while I don’t really dig into the gossip arena, I’m not at all surprised he’s behaved this way ...at all. He was viewed by a lot of the…

Per the Times report, Ava had been a prodigy on the base, traveling to NYC frequently to gig with legit musicians even as a (n even younger) kid. After Adams, she never played another gig again.

What’s grossest to me about this is how CALCULATED doing the Taylor Swift cover album appears to be. How do you attract underage girls? By fake-ironically covering the music of their girl power idol, earnestly inserting himself into the world of the young women he ideally wanted to target sexually. It seemed like a…

She should just change all the criticism to grey and call all the critics misogynist trolls. That always works. 

just an insider look as a Colombian, The look, and feel of the documentary not only copies the feel of the Jiro Dreams of sushi, but also the spirit of two well known restaurants in Medellin and Bogota
Ajiacos y Mondongos Exquisitos = only 3 plates to choose from, and one dessert, and the obsession and look of the…