It is not so much Jason Cherkis calls someone who posted something bad about him a “pussy” or that his development is arrested.

What would concern any ethical editor is that Cherkis in his original posting was attacking a blogger who had engaged in media criticism of him– without telling his readers as much. Common sense would tell the guy not to be using the credibility of his newspaper (albeit, a sorry assed one) to settle a personal score.

But that is what the City Paper has become all about: Cherkis’ expose of his landlord, while he was in various legal disputes with his landlord and his fellow tenants–none of which he decided to let his readers in on. Or there was the writer who was a cancer survivor who Cherkis decided to crack some cancer jokes here and there. Ha ha yuk it up the due had cancer. Of the landlord tenant lawyer who Cherkis called fat and ugly and had accused (as reported in his story) of making up quotes.

Any real editor would put an end to using a publication for such personal ends. But then the editor of the city paper is.. Erik Wemple.

The same Erik Wemple when his wife is turned down for a full time job at the Washington Post after her work is not found to be too great during a probationary period– decides to make it his life’s mission to be the Post’ foremost critic.

Creative loafing should find the right faculty advisor to some junior high paper and clean up the whole mess