Tacky, tacky, tacky.
Huh??? No idea what that refers to.
I think it’s the very idea that a decidedly first-world upper class foodie blog would try and do a piece on homeless people’s diets and methods of cooking. I only skimmed the article, but placing some guy heating up leftovers in scavenged pots in the same context as “The 5 best happy hours in the East Bay!” seems kinda… ick. And the reporting, such as it is, seems pretty surface level and shallow, liked they asked a couple of not-too-scary guys and just left it there.
Whether it was intended or not, I could see it coming off as very patrician and condescending.
In particular, it’s the fact that this comes under the heading of ‘Nosh: Dishing on the East Bay’ rather than part of the Berkleyside’s regular (non-lifestyle) reporting.
Things are affected by context. A picture of a kid in a swimsuit means one thing in a family album, and another in some deep web directory surrounded with a bunch porn.
Even if the article is merely ‘meh’, it’s made less serious by its surroundings. Poor optics.
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This. It definitely belongs in Berkeleyside. The Nosh section? Really?
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Good points. Thanks. I thought the article shouldn’t have been published. IMO it tells one nothing. And I agree that proper placement MIGHT have helped.
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