Yes, I read the NY Times Gawker pieces (I,II)this weekend. My take?
- It was remarkably lazy reporting. Choire Sicha is not pleased with how he was quoted
in the piece. The story shouldn't really be "Gawker changed". The
story really is "How Gawker has adapted to the Amurkanization of New
York and pop culture". As I said before, it's a bit early for a Gawker Deathwatch.
- More? It is amazingly smug that Allen Salkin to assume that those writing blogs "covet
an increasingly rare slot among the news media establishment". Were Salkin
to exit his fully-mirrored biosphere, he might realize that many
of us are simply tired of mainstream media feeding tired baby-boomer bullshit fluffery. Lazy.
- The real Gawker Media story is the TV-B-Gone stunt pulled by my straight lover Richard Blakely at the Consumer Electronics Show.
