“You know how it is when you are 12 years old and your parents do something that embarrasses you and you unload on them? Some people have never really left that (stage). I think that there is a kind of militancy of information that some people on the Internet have, where if there is something that is a little bit wrong they take it really personally and they feel like you are the reason why society is crumbling. . . .
And like you get the old guys on Hemmings where you accidentally call something a Valiant and, ‘Oh, no that was a transition year where the Imperial and Valiant. . . .’
So that’s something we’ve got to put up with. In the early days of Jalopnik, I used to ‘execute’ people for sanctimony. . . . But ultimately, we do need people to (speak up) because we don’t have fact checkers; we don’t have copy editors anymore. . . All that stuff has been crowdsourced. . . . We have hoisted all of that crap off on them because nobody wants to pay for copy editing and fact checking.”
— Mike Spinelli interviewed by Freddy ‘Tavarish’ Hernandez (2015)
RE:SOURCES
- Hernandez, Freddy “Tavarish”; 2015. “Shut Up, You’re not My Real Mom!” Offtrack. Posted May 21; accessed September 14, 2020.
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