Coffee-shop employee, blogger and occasional Xpress contributor Jason Bugg recently posted a rant against Tim Rawal, writer of the “Raw Talk” column for the Asheville Citizen-Times’ free weekly publication Take 5. While Rawal’s light-hearted “I’m new here” attitude doesn’t seem like it’d be the starting point for a war of words, Bugg is evidently not much of a fan.
“Every time I read [Rawal’s] column, I die a little bit inside. He does such a wonderful job of encompassing everything that I hate, that sometimes I think that I’d like to meet the guy and thank him … He has inspired me to do better, and maybe, just maybe, in the end, he will be the one working in a coffee shop while I am the one entertaining the unwashed masses.”
A blogger taking pot-shots at a writer in the mainstream media isn’t exactly rare (just take a look at the work of local blogger AshVegas), but Bugg’s post does bring up an interesting question: What do you think about your local columnists? Let us know by posting a comment in the field below.
– Steve Shanafelt, A&E reporter
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