Elliot’s iPod gets stolen – a big suck. Elliot somehow gets contacted by The New York Times, which was doing a story on iPod thefts, and he gives the following quote: “All the value was really in the music. The thing itself was just a stupid device.”
Shortly thereafter, Elliot finds himself sans iPod and sans job. Village Voice columnist Tricia Romano has a theory: “While Fader publisher Andy Cohn issued a terse ‘no comment on anything having to do with Elliot’s dismissal,’ I’d heard from several sources, including former and current employees of the company, that Aronow, who was identified as a Fader employee in the Times story, was canned because of the perceived negative comment about an Apple product – Apple is a Cornerstone [Communications] client.” And Fader magazine is owned by Cornerstone.
Everyone, of course, denies everything.
Via Obscure Store
