Gothamist: East Side Stories

matukonyc

Sun, 06 May 2007 10:30:33 -0500

I don't think if I were stabbed, I'd like to have what happened considered analogous to a Broadway musical. It's flippant and were you that boy's parents, how would you feel about it? "Literary license?" You can't even spell "privilege" correctly.

DaveH

Sat, 05 May 2007 23:43:51 -0500

Point taken Adriana, but when presented with a story whose mentioned components include NYC, gangs, young love, betrayal by friends, a stabbing, and an East Side location, and the fact that my post is about multiple versions of a reported event, NOT coming up with the title I did would probably have resulted in the revocation of my literary license and the privelege of using it.

Adriana

Sat, 05 May 2007 22:45:12 -0500

Might the previous poster ("a") be referring to the use of a screen shot from West Side Story, and the allusion to the movie in the post title?

DaveH

Sat, 05 May 2007 17:54:31 -0500

Actually, there's not a single disparaging statement about victim Alton McCarthy in our post and we regret if anyone is confused on that point. In fact, we were just contacted by a reader, Karen, who located and directed us to a periodical from four years ago that leads us to believe that Alton is on the verge of graduating from Manhattan/Hunter Science High School and at least four years ago was interested in pursuing a medical degree. We write "is" because he is not a murder victim. If the reports we've read can be trusted, he is currently recovering from his wounds in a New York hospital. There's nothing in our post that communicates Alton McCarthy was killed. That brings us to the crux of someone's misunderstanding. If the post above can be interpreted as disparaging (and we hope it is), it is of the almost comical inability of major media outlets in the so-called media capital of the world to relay an accurate account of a fairly straightforward episode: a young man stabbed in broad daylight on a crowded street or in a well-used park with dozens of people nearby. If in doing that we came across as clever, well, thank you very much.

a

Sat, 05 May 2007 17:12:29 -0500

way to belittle a murder victim...wtf is wrong with the editors on this site...just give us the news ..don't try and be clever..its not working

stop snitchin'

Sat, 05 May 2007 16:27:09 -0500

don't snitch if you know what's good for you.