Hard journo to pay a compliment *

Yesterday's almost entirely positive media story on Nikki Finke gets another day in the news, thanks to her insistence that the piece by Jon Friedman of Marketwatch was "misogynist" and "shameful." Gawker today runs an item apologizing for co-editor Jesse Oxfeld's quip that Finke is "at least a bit crazy," and to show that it was said respectfully and in jest runs their entire email exchange. Finke comes out sounding, well, at least a little crazed. Finke's editor at the LA Weekly has advised her she's taking the Friedman story all wrong, she writes:

My own editor has emailed me “friendly advice” that I’m “tone deaf” not to realize this is an “almost overwhelmingly positive piece” and that “your journalism is given the highest praise and your quirks, what minor ones are discussed, are endearing in the piece. You look human….” To which I say, gee, my hearing was working fine.

A response to her rant at Romenesko also doesn't see what she has to be mad about.

* Finke "satisfied": She posts another update.