How About Them Cowboys? (Denial Edition)

So you may have noticed I haven’t blogged about the Cowboys (or for that matter McLaren) in awhile.  Why?  I’m a sore fucking loser that’s why.  I could blog about Butler, but I get a little to wrapped up to do that rationally.  So it’s probably gonna be politics until the F1 season comes around.

Internet Killing Fields

So there apparently have been some shakeup at Wonkette, the Gawker site devoted to politics. Why? It really hasn’t been said, but Greg Wasserstrom (who wrote the morning round up among other things), Liz Gorman (their photog and stunt woman, by DC standards) and editor Megan Carpentier were all let go in the same week.

This is interesting in that Gawker is one of the first media companies that exists solely as a collection of blogs; no hard website or old media ties, just a diverse collection of blogs. They’re advertising driven and rely upon page hits to generate income. Some are more successful then others, but Wonkette has always been a vanity name plate; well known in political circles but generating fairly low page counts (around 150,000 compared to 600,000 for Jalopnik and 3,000,000 for gizmodo.)

So what does this mean? Probably very little, given Wonkette’s level of notoriety and the lack of involvement by founder Ana Marie Cox one would have to assume it’s peaked for the near term. Unless there is another major scandal it can get out in front of (i.e. Washingtonienne, Mark Foley scandal), it’s hard to see how these firing will lead to any sort of revival. But one does have to question whether or not it will continue at the same level of quality. Why at this point would anybody with skill take the job knowing that unless a Senator is caught with a goat in his office you’re probably not going to be able to generate the page views to keep the job?