I <3 Choire Sicha

I would add this to my del.icio.us links, but well, it’s just too delicious to hold til tomorrow morning. In case you didn’t know, Choire Sicha is back at Gawker. I have been looking for signs of him, but they’re mostly drowned out by a lot of stuff I’m not so interested in. (This is sad. Balk comes through with good stuff from time to time, but um, yea.) Anyway, I digress. I’m here to talk about the good of Gawker that is Choire Sicha’s brilliant fucking post David Remnick’s New Yorker is Tina Brown’s, a painstakingly detailed rundown of nearly a decade’s worth staff changes. Here’s a passage:

Tina inherited Pat Crow, an editor who’d signed on in 1967, and John Bennet and Chip McGrath, who’d also been around a while—they’d worked as co-deputy editors since 1984. She nearly immediately gave all three $30K-a-year raises. Smart! Still, McGrath only lasted until November 1994; off to the Times and other disappointments. Crow faded quickly into a lucrative but unsatisfying “consultancy” to the magazine around the same time, then got divorced and went upstate. John Bennet, however, remains as a senior editor.

This, my friends, is Manhattan Media gossip. It’s not a chart or a venn diagram or an illogical matrix that you can play along with at home, it’s not some cutesy intern talking about who she spilled her Cosmo on last night. It’s actual reporting, with edge and insight. Choire, can you write more, all the time?