tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36864475.post83061583566217459..comments2023-07-02T05:14:05.375-04:00Comments on The Clyde Fitch Report: More Spike Lee StuffLeonard Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14736316792887920991noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36864475.post-85867381000540476532007-07-01T09:35:00.000-04:002007-07-01T09:35:00.000-04:00I think you're wrong.I think you're wrong.Leonard Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14736316792887920991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36864475.post-1077732014686412082007-07-01T01:51:00.000-04:002007-07-01T01:51:00.000-04:00I don't automatically assume that journalists have...I don't automatically assume that journalists have standards.<BR/><BR/>The standard I would apply is one you use in your later post when you reference David Cote's comments about religion:<BR/><BR/>"I merely questioned the positioning of such a comment in a review in which the thought would not be germane."<BR/><BR/>You believe that using "racially charged" language in your piece on Spike Lee was germane to your argument, I think it muddied it. <BR/><BR/>As for whether you were beng sloppy, consider your sentence:<BR/><BR/>"Yes, I suppose that was a racially charged joke, but that would also mean that white people cannot, and do not, use the phrase "What up?" or "Yo" in everyday speech, and I hardly think that's true."<BR/><BR/>You begin the sentence by agreeing with Isaac that your joke was racially charged, but end it by arguing that it isn't racially charged at all. I think that's sloppy.Troubadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18120574073739567260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36864475.post-75463630883655076912007-06-30T23:29:00.000-04:002007-06-30T23:29:00.000-04:00I have responded to Isaac in my current post and t...I have responded to Isaac in my current post and that's all I have to say about that. I don't think it was sloppy at all. Isn't the purpose of a blog to be able to relate current thinking without the polish of a dissertation? Or are you holding me to some sort of superficial higher standard because I'm a journalist? If so, that's crap.Leonard Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14736316792887920991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36864475.post-75856660214335970552007-06-30T23:12:00.000-04:002007-06-30T23:12:00.000-04:00If you're going to use a "racially charged" joke t...If you're going to use a "racially charged" joke to make a comment about celebrity directing/casting on broadway, then you shouldn't be surprised that people take you to task on the racist implications of the joke, rather than the major concern of your post.<BR/><BR/>The fact that you obscured your main argument is a failure on your part to communicate your intention, and if you weren't intending to be racist then you were being careless and sloppy.<BR/><BR/>I also thought Isaac was bending over backwards to be civil.Troubadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18120574073739567260noreply@blogger.com