Gawker: Toure

This is Not a Crack House

ian spiegelman — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:54:28 EDT

Last week, annoyingly one-named reporter for The New York Times, Toure, wrote about his middle class guilt and snitching to the cops about a crack house on his block. The article was illustrated with this photo of some handsome residences in Toure's neighborhood. But, oops!

"A picture last Sunday with an essay about a crack house in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, was published in error. The three houses in the picture are on the same street as the crack house, but none of the three figured in the essay." The photo's been removed from the original article online. Good thing we grabbed it. [NYT]

Touré Has Lost Any Possible Street Cred

rebecca — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:46:20 EDT

Fort Greene is not gentrifying fast enough! At least that's the experience of cultural critic and dude about town Touré. The single-named author was living right across from a crackhouse on South Oxford street in Fort Greene, only a block away South Portland, Time Out New York's most desirable place to live in 2006. But even with a sushi place on the next corner, there was still a crack house across from his apartment. After a bout of black liberal guilt, Touré tried to get the po-po to clear the streets, but they ignored his calls. We don't judge Touré's conflicted anti-neighborhood crack house stance—since the advent of Google Maps, Mole Edition, we are all snitches now. [NYT]

Tour Ditches CNN for BET

Jessica — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:05:57 EST

CNN pop-culture correspondent Tour has, it would seem, grown tired of his gig as the 90-second-black-dude on American Morning. BET has hired the jack-of-all-commentary as a host, writer and Consulting Producer for BET News. He's joined by former Source EIC Selwyn Hinds and writer/filmmaker Nelson George, who will work as BET News producers.

Interestingly, the press release notes the trio of new hires are Brooklyn-based; in fact, it's mentioned three times before the third paragraph. Is the borough from which these men hail the most important thing about this story? How about the fact that this might be a revival for the short-changed news division? Or, say, the significance of Tour taking his talent from the CNN powerhouse and investing it in BET? No, no, these things are not important. Brooklyn, that's where the cred is. Right behind the couple with the stroller, next to the girl in cowboy boots.

Pop Culture Personality Tour Headed To BET News [BlackNews]