This morning the New York Times‘ website went down. As a way to pass the time until Pinch got the hamster wheel running again, NYT staff editor Juliet Lapidos tweeted the following:
How is the Huffington Post handling the NYT outage? Do they have contingency plans?
— Juliet Lapidos (@julietlapidos) August 14, 2013
Oh no she dih-int! You gonna take that, HuffPo’s Sam Stein?
i guess what angered me about the NYT's joking that we were lost w/ them down is the presumption that we'd HAVE to link to the NYT
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) August 14, 2013
Best tweet of the current crisis RT @julietlapidos How is the Huffington Post handling the NYT outage? Do they have contingency plans?
— marc tracy (@marcatracy) August 14, 2013
Hey @marcatracy. i want to introduce myself. i do original reporting for the Huffington Post. I don't monitor NYT. com for material.
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) August 14, 2013
I don't think people realize how insulting it is to our staff of great reporters (30+ in dc alone) to suggest we can't report w/o nyt. com
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) August 14, 2013
I know I don’t!
But everything’s cool now, you guys:
@samsteinhp I took the reference to be to the aggregating, not the reporting, but obviously you're right and I regret the crack
— marc tracy (@marcatracy) August 14, 2013
@samsteinhp @marcatracy Did not mean to wound. It was just a dumb joke.
— Juliet Lapidos (@julietlapidos) August 14, 2013
@DanSWright @samsteinhp NYT's @julietlapidos seemed to think we couldn't function with her paper's site down.
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) August 14, 2013
@mlcalderone Just meant that as a dumb joke. Sorry to offend.
— Juliet Lapidos (@julietlapidos) August 14, 2013
@julietlapidos @marcatracy no worries. water under bridge now. appreciate the note
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) August 14, 2013
Whew. Crisis averted.
Note to self: Do not displease Sam Stein! Unless, of course, I don’t have anything else to do and I feel like it because it’s fun.
Update: Just when a tenuous cease-fire had been reached…
What @samsteinhp said http://t.co/N0GNRxFvml
— Whitney Snyder (@whitneysnyder) August 14, 2013
And while we’re at it, last month we sent 67,000 readers to http://t.co/hyqSRtmWS3
— Whitney Snyder (@whitneysnyder) August 14, 2013
And 62,000 to http://t.co/FGFUXPI2fi
— Whitney Snyder (@whitneysnyder) August 14, 2013
And 51,000 to http://t.co/ux7fyAXT4E, a story, I might add, that our @nasiripour had covered earlier
— Whitney Snyder (@whitneysnyder) August 14, 2013
And since we’re not the vindictive type, we’ll keep linking to their great A1 story on the Clintons today.
— Whitney Snyder (@whitneysnyder) August 14, 2013
And a new front may have been opened:
@charliespiering @JGreenDC yeah, i'm sort of unclear what the "feud" was here
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) August 14, 2013
Stay tuned!