Meta-interconnected-something-ness:
Mr. Kaplan will leave a New York media world that is fundamentally different than the one he entered in 1994. Just last week, the Observer broke a story about a Brooklyn con woman, the so-called “hipster-grifter,” in a news article that provided just the kind of New York intrigue and context that had been a hallmark of the newspaper. But Gawker, the Manhattan gossip blog, immediately took custody of the story, annotating it with attitude and reader-submitted sightings of the protagonist that all but obscured where the story came from in the first place.
Oh who cares what Gawker did? The more important point here is that Doree is responsible for the swansong accomplishment in Peter Kaplan’s Observer career. Once the original ”hipster grifter” story was published, he probably thought: “OK. My work here is done.”
