Regarding the article on "Friends of Eggers" site owner Gary Baum, which the Atlantic spiked (reportedly under pressure from Eggers), an Atlantic insider writes, "Eggers did not 'appeal' to the Atlantic for anything; he'd been trying, for reasons that had very little to do with the article and a lot to do with his paranoia and self-involvement, to get the article canceled for months, and what he did after his sister died was mount a campaign in which he asked everyone he knew in New York to put pressure on [the Atlantic]. Most of those people refused. Someone also put in an anonymous call to Gary's mom, frantically asking her to get Gary to take down the site. Which is fucked up, frankly. We decided not to run the article because the tone...was all wrong after what had happened, and it would have required a completely different article to get it right. There was really nothing else to do."