I say leave the poor girl alone. You know she was probably some intern who was charged with coming up with a creative pitch, which this is. It's unfortunate that Nocera was included on her media list, but who doesn't want a hit in the New York Times?

wanting a hit in the NYT doesn't happen by being insipid, talking about gossip mags and calling kids "fashion accessories." In general, the Times attracts a more thoughtful reader - even if fewer now.

for every pr flack who says "journalists are lazy, you have to do their job for them," I say: good for Nocera for finally saying "we're not as dumb as you think."

But I've had turd pitches (and pitch letters) left in my lap and been told to pitch them. When you are 23 and new to the job, you can't really refuse to send out something because you think it is terrible. People do need paychecks. I guess you can make your suggestions and hopefully they will be taken to heart. But to humiliate someone without knowing the situation is just disrespectful and wrong.

Her title is vice president, so I'm assuming she isn't a green pr person. Besides being off target, its content and the subject of the pitch itself, the writing is terrible. If you get a "turd pitch" you polish the best you can and run with it. She clearly didn't do that.

Calling her out by name was perhaps a bit unnecessary, but this pitch deserves to be ripped apart publicly.

Why are you people fiction writing here? Imagining her to be a young innocent, a forced laborer? This grown woman - an alleged professional - wrote poorly, sent bad ideas and was called for it. While I feel for her pain over a public lashing, the work stands on its own as some of the worst imaginable. If you look at the work, and not the victim fantasy scribed above, it is just unforgivably bad.