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April 17, 2011

High Cheese — Gonzo feud over booing?

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Written by: Frank Ward
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Maybe there is a little feud between David Murphy of the Daily News and High Cheese fame, and the Inquirer’s John Gonzalez. Oh, you have to love Twitter.

A few hours ago, Murph posted this:

If this dude’s radio show was half as bad as his column, I can understand why he was such a failure: http://bit.ly/gB7QGC

Later, he posted a retraction?

David Murphy

I’d like to apologize for my earlier Tweet. It was immature of me to mock a guy who has made it clear that he does not expect, nor even desire, to be taken seriously. Rather than accept him for who he is — an irrelevant voice whose column shares space with the daily sports cartoon — I made the mistake of taking the easy way out and focusing on his various professional inadequacies. I should have just said this: We are in the business of fairness, and it doesn’t get more unfair than publicly accusing a writer of having contempt for his readership. Unlike the Lorax, I do not believe a fan base to be a homogenous group of people whose thinking and behavior can be neatly generalized for the express purpose of writing a simpleton column. I believe the majority of fans are rational individuals with a beautifully irrational love for their teams, people who have the ability to process critical thoughts on their own, people who do not need to be told how to feel by a columnist who has a latent inferiority complex and an eighth-grader’s grasp of the English language. The only people for whom I hold contempt are hack wannabe writers who invent stories for the express purpose of taking a pandering viewpoint. Please accept this apology.

Interesting to see who heckles who in the press box tomorrow night.







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