They published a retraction and admitted they got hoodwinked by Three Names Barrett.I left myself wide open for that one
But I mean, it's better this way. Someone named Sloane. Fencing and lacrosse. Everything about this Sloane is "through Sloane's attorney". That this contained fabrications lends it some serious authenticity in the world it's describing.
Whats.And we identified the need to correct the location of a lacrosse family mentioned in the article: They do not live in Greenwich, Connecticut, but in another town in Fairfield County.
The.
Fucking.
Difference.
I mean, holy hell. Like we thought someone named Sloane with a fencing/lacrosse kid lived in Yonkers or Newark.
I can picture Lena Dunham bullying Allison Williams into the worst sex scene Brian Williams' daughter from New Canaan would do. Presto, B-Dub's daughter getting her ass eaten on HBO.
Allison Williams, all high cheekbones and slender elegance, screaming "upper crust". Lena Dunham, looking like a doll made of twinkies, pulling showrunner rank and giving Williams a front row of pawns and herself a front row of queens. That privilege got oh so checked. Lulzy.
Anyway, yeah, this Atlantic snafu, the content of it, the nature of the snafu, it's basically happenstance perfect Performance Art. It ate its liberal self, and that liberal self deserved to be devoured alive, but then it got bulimic, vom'd it back up, and it's really taking a stand leaving the bucket on the stoop for all to see, instead of just flushing it, like that would have fooled anyone.