Twitter Responds to the News About Brett Anderson

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• The Gambit confirms.
• Blackened Out
• Blackened Out
• Is this the future?
• Cajun Boy, or Brett Michael Dykes, of Uproxx.
• The oenophiles at Vintage Orleans
• Simpson's voice guy, actor and New Orleanian Harry Shearer
• Joann Clevinger's Upperline
• Poppy Tooker's gonna follow him to hell.
• Michael Stoltzfus' Coquette
• Adolfo Garcia
• St. Louis chef Joshua Galliano
• The NOLA Wine Guy
• Drinks writer and part-time New Orleans resident Wayne Curtis with a call to action.
• John T Edge of the Southern Foodways Alliance
• Oral historian and Barbecue Bus driver Rien Fertel.
• Oxford, MS chef John Currence weighs in.
• Sam Sifton, former New York Times critic, leading the charge of critics past and present.
• Pete Wells, New York Times critic.
• Devra First, Boston Globe critic.
• Hanna Raskin, Seattle Weekly critic.
• S. Irene Virbila, LA Times critic.
• Francis Lam
• Joe York, videographer, with the best commentary of the day.
• Now that's perspective.

Yesterday was a bad day in New Orleans. (Overheard at happy hour at Twist: "The dark cloud of the Times-Picayune hangs over the city today.") With the Times-Picayune slashing its staff on its way to becoming a new, "digitally-focused news organization," the news broke early that the paper's restaurant critic and features writer, Brett Anderson, had been one of those to meet the ax. The news was met with a combination of rage, anger, rage, incredulity and snark, all directed at those people from out of state who own the Times-Pic.

Above, some of the best responses from Twitter, featuring local people gettin' fired up, notable critics from across the country giving condolences and a couple of jokes that landed particularly well.

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