One of the first businesses affected by the downturn in business was Celia Cohen’s Grapevine “blog.” Perhaps Celia had seen her 401K get large enough that she didn’t have to work any more. Who knows. But one thing is certain, she wants back into the game.
We know Celia for the fawning, inside baseball, incumbent-lover that she is, but apparently not everyone feels that way. DelawareLiberal.Net has obtained a letter that has been mailed to the Delaware Way crowd to ask for a bailout for Celia. The authors of this letter are the two opponents for Delaware’s lone congressional seat… in 1974… Pete duPont and Prof. Jim Soles.
We all know Pete, but Professor Soles is interesting. He has two positions at UD named after him and he contributed heavily to Barack Obama in the election. He is a little suspect, since Celia called him “a bi-partisan Democrat” Celia has written about him several times, including a post about his current gig.
The letter lays out the wonderful things that Celia brought to the table, such as the quote “Democrats like politics. Republicans like winning.” I prefer Celia on Rudy Guiliani in Delaware:
The Republicans also could console themselves that they were seeing something their Democratic counterparts most likely will not — a potential presidential candidate who comes to court them.
Classic. How can we all help get Celia back in the saddle so she can dish on all of the people that used to be relevant? By sending her money, of course. The letter claims that the Grapevine will be hosting the website at Delaware Today, which means that the money must be going to Celia’s salary. I’m thinking that no one kisses ass like someone with a dozen sugar-daddies to please.
Celia can’t make on her own, she never could. She had to rely on some angel (perhaps duPont?) to keep paying the bills for her, since she never attracted advertisers to her site. So now she is hoping that the subscription model will do it for her. She is kind of like NPR, but with only a column a week about your fellow subscribers, is it really worth it?
Best of luck, Celia. If you can take a few rich people for 50 grand a year to write about their social events, more power to you. But never try to pawn yourself off as an even-handed journalist, we know how this works.