@iPORT , you are officially the worst journalist to ever live
It started as a joke. It became a warning — a dire warning — but it started as a joke.
Really, that's what this was meant to be, before however many hundreds or thousands of Phish fans read our post on the Outside Lands schedule and demonstrated how awfully limited their grasp of humor (and abstract thought) can be.
Here's what happened: This writer expressed appreciation for the fact that there are several interesting artists playing Friday at Outside Lands during Phish's more-than-three-hour headlining slot.
This writer made a crack about needing a minimum distance of 200 yards from any performing jam band.
This writer then moved on to other things.
Somewhere around yesterday evening, this blogged quip demonstrating mild dislike for Phish was absorbed into the online hive mind and spread to oversensitive fans around the world. Their reaction: hate, physical threats, more hate, criticism of our use of the em dash, more hate, and lots of comments on our site and on Twitter.
This writer has been called “the worst journalist ever to live,” a “hack writer,” and — my favorite — “a fucking tool.”
Here's what my @mention stream looked like on Twitter today:
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