Why do you call out Rob Crossley without posting any of his responses? It sounds like he was really rude based on your description yet I have no way of telling whether he was just calling you out after he felt your email was fake.
Further, that section seems to imply that Crossley was convinced from the beginning that the story was fake.
"...he accused me of being 18 years old with no job, right off the bat..."
It's interesting that he calls out Crossley as unprofessional when Crossley seems to have done his job rather well. I know we like to equate "professionalism" with "politeness," but it's not Crossley's job to be polite to people---especially people he suspects of deliberately wasting his time.
Ryan Holiday's book Trust Me, I'm Lying is a good account of the state of blogs and online journalism today. After reading that book, things like this don't surprise me any longer.
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[ 6.1 ms ] story [ 23.3 ms ] thread"...he accused me of being 18 years old with no job, right off the bat..."
It's interesting that he calls out Crossley as unprofessional when Crossley seems to have done his job rather well. I know we like to equate "professionalism" with "politeness," but it's not Crossley's job to be polite to people---especially people he suspects of deliberately wasting his time.