{"id":581798,"date":"2010-05-27T15:51:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=106365"},"modified":"2010-05-27T15:51:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:51:18","slug":"m-i-a-vs-the-new-york-times-rapper-posts-reporter%e2%80%99s-phone-number-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581798","title":{"rendered":"M.I.A. vs. The New York Times! Rapper Posts Reporter\u2019s Phone Number On Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You can take the girl out of the hood, but you can’t take the hood out of the girl.<\/p>\n

Outspoken Sri Lankan rap star M.I.A. is so livid over a slightly-disparaging New York Times Magazine<\/a><\/em> article about her whiny political views (which includes the assertion that Facebook is owned by CIA operatives), she unleashed the reporter’s phone number across the Twitterverse in retaliation.<\/p>\n

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“917.834.3158 CALL ME IF YOU WANNA TALK TO ME ABOUT THE N Y T TRUTH ISSUE, ill b taking calls all day bitches ;)….” M.I.A. wrote in an early AM Tweet<\/a> to fans.<\/p>\n

Lots of people thought dialing the number with the NYC area code might actually lead them to a breathless phone call with M.I.A. herself. This is what they heard instead:<\/p>\n

“You have reached the mailbox of Lynn Hirschberg. This mailbox is currently full.” <\/em><\/p>\n

Lynn Hirschberg just happens to be the journalist who penned the NYT’s<\/em> somewhat-unflattering profile on the “Paper Planes” emcee, published Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Well, you have to admire the girl’s moxie!<\/p>\n

“It’s a fairly unethical thing to do, but I don’t think it’s surprising,”<\/em> said Hirschberg, who has been fielding calls from M.I.A. stans all day. “She’s a provocateur, and provocateurs want to be provocative\u2026[it’s] infuriating and not surprising.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Lynn — who still has a full mailbox — says she plans on keeping her phone number.<\/p>\n

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