Monday, December 8, 2008

Well this is awkward.

Emily Coswell (Smith) is was a writer for NOISE, the weekly entertainment tabloid put out by the Lansing State Journal. I've hated her writing for years, but whatever... I'm sure she has an audience.

She was recently laid off, along with three other writers for NOISE, one of whom surprised me--Christian Czerwinski, probably the only good writer they employed. He was usually pretty refreshing.

Anyway, in an attempt to sort out Emily Coswell's name change, I came across her last restaurant review for NOISE, published the same week she was laid off. In the comments section, someone posted a "critical" review of the column, on Friday, December 5th.

Obviously, this person didn't realize she had been laid off, but he or she proceeds to exclaim that Emily should be furiously fired. Oh boy. btw: why so mean to her?

Oh, and Emily has started up a new blog, where she posts items such as the facts that she was fired and that she is a talented writer. She also posted the same City Pulse article I linked to and says she told the reporter to plug her blog (they didn't). I guess I'm just nicer.

iusedtogetpaidforthis.blogspot.com/

UPDATE: The article to which she was referring had more information and had not been printed yet. It does link to her talent-filled blog. Here it is.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i've never understood why we have both noise and the city pulse.

Anonymous said...

oh crap, i know jeremy, the fired photographer! he was at dagwoods last night, i wish i'd known. he's good.

Joshua said...

They're published by different entities. Also, NOISE focuses on entertainment and dining while the City Pulse also has news and opinion. I always thought they seemed pretty different.

Anonymous said...

well I knew they were different publishers, I just didn't see the point of them. I guess I feel like CP coveres everything that's in Noise + some more.