Sylvestergate: Yet More Nick News
These reports just in to Gawker HQ:
• From a Voice alum, who says acting Voice editor Doug Simmons has never been a very popular editor at the paper: "The news is that a bunch of former Voice staffers are crafting a letter to the new owners urging them to replace Simmons forthwith. The next step is to get a bunch of people inside the paper to sign the letter as well. A vote of no confidence, so to speak."
• And there's more weirdness in young Nick Sylvester's background. Assuming you're cooler than we are, which you probably are, you knew this already: Nick was a presenter the Plug Awards a month, when he decided to read a Malcolm Gladwell article in lieu of his presenting his award. He was eventually pulled from the stage. Odd.
• Finally: Nick did not in fact faint in his editors' office when Simmons confronted him about his partially fabricated cover story. It was outside Simmons' office, and it wasn't so much fainting as collapsing — he never lost consciousness. Just to clarify.