Does Mainstream Media Have Post Envy?

Of course it does, says AdAge‘s Scott Donaton:

Like the teen who writes nasty things about a girl in his MySpace profile because he can’t admit he likes her, many mainstream-media journalists and pundits sneer at the Post because they can’t admit how frustrated they are by their inability to achieve the paper’s lively, confident, insider’s tone.

Setting aside Donaton’s assertion — and let’s assume mainstream media is all hot for-slash-jealous of the New York Post — how ultra-meta-meta is Donaton’s own column? Donaton’s prime example of love-hating on the Post:

On a recent Saturday, the Post splashed across its front page a story about the relationship between the CFO of a major media company and a woman accused of running a prostitution ring.

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