Q: Is Deborah Solomon a manipulative meanie who doesn’t return calls?
A: Yes, according to the New York Press.

Deborah Solomon, the Q&A queen of the New York Times Magazine apparently does not return calls, takes quotes out of context and makes up questions after the fact.

Of course, in the words of one journalist, “the New York Press is a bitter, little publication.” She could add, a wordy one. For about 1000 words, Matt Elzweig goes on (and on) about how Deborah Solomon wouldn’t get back in touch with him for the piece.

For those who couldn’t plow how through the minutia of Elzweig’s one-sided correspondence with Solomon, here’s the relevant part that follows: It seems that Solomon screwed two high profile journalists, Ira Glass and Amy Dickinson in her interviews.

In Glass’s case Solomon took a quote Glass gave her about no one talking about shows on Showtime out of context. Dickinson claims that Solomon added dialogue to the Q&A.

Of course, the Q&A that revealed Jonah Hill of Knocked Up and Superbad smokes pot occasionally was probably not made up.

Omitting context and inserting questions if of course morally suspect, so Elzweig goes the other way, and seems to include every piece of information he uncovers while reporting this story.

It’s like journalism vérité, and just as boring as cinema vérité.