{"id":343,"date":"2009-03-18T08:05:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T15:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/03\/_washington_post_art_critic\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T08:05:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T15:05:50","slug":"_washington_post_art_critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/03\/_washington_post_art_critic.html","title":{"rendered":"Blake Gopnik impersonator on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Post art critic Blake Gopnik emailed yesterday to say he was the victim of a drive-by Twitter post. Somebody’s impersonating him in the department of Tweet Tweet.
\nI saw the item about his Twitter post<\/a> on MAN. Note Tyler Green’s question mark, which I ignored:<\/p>\n

Look who’s Twittering?<\/strong>
\nWashington Post art critic Blake Gopnik? Here’s a sample — and one which manages to miss many points at once: “I, for one, won’t miss the Rose Art Museum. It was always a second-rate collection in a city full of first-rate art.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I responded with this post<\/a>, unfortunately titled, A Washington Post twit on Twitter<\/em>, which includes:<\/p>\n

A man who tosses off irresponsible one-liners but builds paragraphs into essays with the reliable if unexciting skill of a bricklayer is not best served by Twitter. All his worst faults are on view, his best suppressed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gopnik, who says the offending item was not by him, wrote me:<\/p>\n

I thought you might like to know that I have never Twittered, and am not even signed onto the service as a user. Someone is impersonating me. I am surprised that you didn’t suspect such a thing. The Twitterer’s voice and opinions are clearly not mine, and many of the issues addressed are not ones that I have ever expressed an interest in. I am even more surprised that, as a professional journalist, you didn’t take the basic step of calling or emailing me to fact-check this.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s right. Somebody went to a lot of trouble to set him up. I should have spent a small fraction of that time checking it out before responding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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