A Letter from the Blackboard regarding Nate Berg - by N.L. Belardes
That's a wrap, folks! I'm guessing I should just ignore the supposed Mr. Berg's emails...could be a dastardly ploy for press. See what you think:
Hey there Nick!
Boy oh boy oh boy. This whole Nate Burg nonsense is just becoming a lot hoo-ha, isn't it? It's too bad he does this kind of negative stuff to drum up publicity rather than positive things.
The reality is, The Blackboard stopped running pieces on Nate Burg because I felt it was a waste of time investing ink on that tiny, small person.
I ran a letter to the editor criticizing how he handled a show, hopefully and naively, so he'd change his ways. Instead, he called us and threatened to sue us for slander (and anyone with half a brain knows that a newspaper gets sued for libel, not slander). I got emails from a number of people that he was running around downtown with copies of the newspaper BRAGGING about the bad press. "Look what the Blackboard is saying about me!" I guess some people just don't get it.
Coincidently a band's manager requested we cover a gig at Jerry's Pizza, and when our reporter went to do the event, Nate held her up at the door and refused to let her in because, "Her editor talked a lot of shit about him." The band got screwed in the deal and a lot of bad feedback got returned to the New York publicists doing the promotion.
Nate tried very hard to stay in [bad] print in the Blackboard, calling and leaving threatening voice mails on the phone, trying to ramp up drama, but we never returned his calls. He called about two or three months after being so offended with being called a Nazi, and talked to my wife. He was complaining about the Valley Plaza Security finding methamphetamine on him and harassing him for it. He said they beat him up in the back room. (And almost as an afterthought, it occurred to him to deny that he had the tweak on him in the first place.) My wife pawned him off, saying I was busy and would call him back. He left a voice mail trying to scare up the same story a couple of days later, but we ignored him.
I think Nate Burg's reality is a little warped, because the decision to stop covering him had nothing to do with calling him a Nazi, offending his Jewish heritage, and any implied fallout of doing that. It had to do with Nate Burg being a small person. No matter what we tried to make everyone happy, Nate kept up with drama and garbage rather than presenting solutions. I was hoping he'd combat the asshole reputation he developed by using the newspaper to set up a new gig for the rapper that he left out in the cold and extend an olive branch to the writer he locked out of his club. Instead he lived up to his reputation and made matters worse, threatening lawyers and (ahem!) slander. I'd rather not deal with small people, so I dropped him like rotten meat...
peace
Jason Rickett, Editor-in-Chief
The Blackboard Free Press
http://www.theblackboardfreepress.com
jrickett@theblackboardfreepress.com
Hey there Nick!
Boy oh boy oh boy. This whole Nate Burg nonsense is just becoming a lot hoo-ha, isn't it? It's too bad he does this kind of negative stuff to drum up publicity rather than positive things.
The reality is, The Blackboard stopped running pieces on Nate Burg because I felt it was a waste of time investing ink on that tiny, small person.
I ran a letter to the editor criticizing how he handled a show, hopefully and naively, so he'd change his ways. Instead, he called us and threatened to sue us for slander (and anyone with half a brain knows that a newspaper gets sued for libel, not slander). I got emails from a number of people that he was running around downtown with copies of the newspaper BRAGGING about the bad press. "Look what the Blackboard is saying about me!" I guess some people just don't get it.
Coincidently a band's manager requested we cover a gig at Jerry's Pizza, and when our reporter went to do the event, Nate held her up at the door and refused to let her in because, "Her editor talked a lot of shit about him." The band got screwed in the deal and a lot of bad feedback got returned to the New York publicists doing the promotion.
Nate tried very hard to stay in [bad] print in the Blackboard, calling and leaving threatening voice mails on the phone, trying to ramp up drama, but we never returned his calls. He called about two or three months after being so offended with being called a Nazi, and talked to my wife. He was complaining about the Valley Plaza Security finding methamphetamine on him and harassing him for it. He said they beat him up in the back room. (And almost as an afterthought, it occurred to him to deny that he had the tweak on him in the first place.) My wife pawned him off, saying I was busy and would call him back. He left a voice mail trying to scare up the same story a couple of days later, but we ignored him.
I think Nate Burg's reality is a little warped, because the decision to stop covering him had nothing to do with calling him a Nazi, offending his Jewish heritage, and any implied fallout of doing that. It had to do with Nate Burg being a small person. No matter what we tried to make everyone happy, Nate kept up with drama and garbage rather than presenting solutions. I was hoping he'd combat the asshole reputation he developed by using the newspaper to set up a new gig for the rapper that he left out in the cold and extend an olive branch to the writer he locked out of his club. Instead he lived up to his reputation and made matters worse, threatening lawyers and (ahem!) slander. I'd rather not deal with small people, so I dropped him like rotten meat...
peace
Jason Rickett, Editor-in-Chief
The Blackboard Free Press
http://www.theblackboardfreepress.com
jrickett@theblackboardfreepress.com
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005.
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Nate Berg is the Mike Tyson HYPE of Bakersfield.
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