YES VIRGINIA, There is A Social Mafia in NYC March 13
A cultural re-awakening and re-enlightenment is what is needed in New York City. Andy Warhol is dead and the Studio 54 crowd that continues to have a lock on New York Nightlife and whom or what gets promoted and written about, needs to go the same route and step aside or get more creative for our culture to evolve. Or in the words of Ayn Rand ”Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics – a rational ethics – as a precondition of rebirth.”—Christopher London, January 2009 in The End of Social Life.
Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus and also a bit of a “Social Mafia” so to speak in NYC. Truth told there are corridors where only certain scribes or photographers are made to feel welcome, while others are made to feel less significant, their presence or coverage less desired. But often it has nothing to do with the quality of your prose, the images you take, the style of your blog or its readership.
When I wrote about The End of Social Life in New York City more than a year ago, I was summarily dismissed by Cityfile with the snarky comment: “Sounds like someone needs to hit a benefit tonight and have a drink!”
There are a group of people in this town who celebrate themselves, highlight only the works and good deeds of their friends while acting/posing around a rather broken social construct with themselves as the top bananas or the gatekeepers. To quote my ex girlfriend who her self worked in the field of public relations, albeit at a more exclusive level: “They are stars in their own show.”
You can’t change the attitudes of self promoting, fame seeking douchebags nor should anyone worry that someone who is an empty vessel for the agenda of others has a successful blog. Truth is that looking pretty in a Keith Lissner dress, casting yourself as a modern Holly Golightly while swilling champagne at Cipriani replacing Breakfast at Tiffany’s, all while printing press releases and images taken by someone else hardly makes one a “New Media Entrepreneur” even if you have your own Wikipedia entry and a Godfather or godfather(s) shepherding you through the corridors of power, especially if you truly have absolutely nothing interesting, insightful or critical to say.
Make no mistake, GuestofaGuest.com is part of the genre of the social aggregation and nightlife industry blogs that exist as a dumping ground for all the content that is not fit to print in a magazine or that publicists cannot wrangle editors to make space for in their magazines. With the decline of the print medium event planners and publicists need a dumping ground for content that cannot be published elsewhere. If you are a blogger, this is a good thing. Why, because if you distinguish yourself online, as some nightlife and lifestyle bloggers have (see: ChiChi212, Scene B Seen, Scallywag & Vagabond), capture an audience, perhaps even a thinking or discerning audience, you many find yourself being courted like the New York Times.
Elevate, don’t salivate or get angry at those who have sold themselves out to appeal to the lowest common denominator and who will print literally anything and extol the virtues of Satan as long as they are getting paid, for that simply ain’t journalism.
What you can do, is simply work to Change the Phucking Game!!! Do not play the kiss my ass I will kiss your ass school of new media journalism propagated by those who desire to join the existing social order. There are lots of fascinating people, places and things going on in New York City. One need not simply cover the same folks night in and night out or suck on Devorah Rose’s proverbial penis (not that there is anything wrong with transsexuals or transvestites or even suggesting that someone is similarly atypically GLAM), or that of any other reality celebrity come editor of a Social Life Magazine, or for that matter extol the virtues of legendary photographers who after 25 years still have a hard time taking photos with ambient lighting or that are actually in focus. Talent abounds in this town when you search for it outside the existing and preferred social construct.
EPILOGUE: This blog also appears by permission at Scallywag & Vagabond, although the editor of that blog chose to edit out some of my language in the last paragraph pertaining to Devorah Rose and attribute it instead to Tinsley Mortimer, presumably after consultation with Ms. Rose. For the record this editor does not endorse that change, nor do I have an issue with the Socialite known affectionately as ‘The Tinz” marketing her designs.
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