Earlier this morning, we tweeted about a story the New York Times ran on its august City Room blog about people auditioning for a show called “Brighton Beach,” billed as a sort of Russian version of “Jersey Shore.” Why did we inform you about the Times story? Only because the Ink had run its own report on the auditions a full two days before the Times did. Call it an episode of intemperate gloating, but whenever the Times plays catchup to a little minnow such as us…it’s something to gloat about!
But wait. There’s more! Upon looking over the Times story again, we found that among the pictures included in a slideshow accompanying the piece was one that featured our very own Mary Plummer who reported and wrote the story for us. It’s not every day that a news outlet takes a picture of another news outlet in the process of scooping it on a story, but sometimes, these things happen. We would note that we still adore the Times, love the City Room blog, and we would ask them to please not come after us.
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