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This is probably a little bit inside baseball but what the hell, all I pretty much do is blog about bloggers anyway.
Memeorandum is kind of a one-stop shopping area for bloggers to check out what the hot stories are and who else is blogging about them. Usually the top stories are not blogs blogging about blogs, but today was different. And if your name happened to be Roger Simon, the above is what you had to look at most of the afternoon.
Sucks to be Roger who just went from being themanwhocreatedmoseswine to themanwhomadewingnutbloggerswhine.
Over at the newly renamed Pull My Finger Media™, Roger decides to rub a little salt in the wound:
Actually that part of our business has been losing money from the beginning, so the people getting their quarterly checks from PJM were getting a form of stipend from us in the hopes that advertisers would start to cotton to blogs and we could possibly make a profit. Didn’t happen. No wonder those people are kicking and screaming now that they are off the dole. I might too.
"Off the dole"?
Nice touch. Nothing like first insulting and then making the PJM network bloggers have to tell their tens of readers that they are being thrust from the PJM nest and will probably plummet to the ground, landing with a sickening thud only to lie there twisted, broken and writhing in excruciating pain until the ants come and begin to feast on their still living flesh, their silent cries unheard..
On a lighter note, Roger has a book coming out next week:
Either the timing of this was a weird coincidence or possibly the most brilliant and twisted marketing campaign ever.
Oh, sweet mama. And I thought the Obama years were going to be no fun.
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I felt a great disturbance in the
Forceblogosphere, as if millions ofvoiceswhiny bitches suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenlysilencedno longer being paid to diddle themselves. I fear somethingterriblewonderful has happened.There wasn’t any percentage for Simon in being nice to those people; he’d been more than nice enough simply by paying them even though PJM wasn’t making any money.
But as you can see from the comments (all over the other blogs) the way he handled this was poor, to put it nicely.
Now everyone hates Roger and what slim minuscule hardly-breathing chance PJTV had of succeeding goes the way of the Jonah Goldberg Edition AbMaster.
Wait. You mean they were getting paid for an audience they had yet to create/attract? Huh.
Oh, can it really be true that Flautus Shruggs is, uhm, flat busted now?
Sorry, I know that was probably sexist, but since I can’t quite figure out what sex she is anyway, I don’t think I’m stepping on anybody’s, er, toes.
I was hoping the first proposed subtitle, “I Let H. Rap Brown Fuck My Girlfriend, So All Liberals Suck” would take.
It’s too bad all the blogger bailout money went to the liberal blogs.
Praise Obama-Pelosi!
“Mommy, that man exploits people!”
“I told you not to play with him, dint I? He gave you five bucks to blow him, so STFU.”
Ah, the right-wing business model — subsidies for all our friends.
The wingnut implosion over the coming years is going to be a joy to behold.
But what about the bonuses for PJM members? They’re still going to get them right? I mean, if you create something, you should get a piece? I vote one piece of flaming dog poo for all!
I’m interested in the tick-tock of this. If Roger the Bodger is being truthful in describing the blog network as pure wingnut welfare, he presumably realised that shutting it down would be backlash central, so there was an incentive to drag it out as long as possible.
Still, as others have said, it’s not as if burning through VC money in ‘pre-revenue’ mode isn’t the doliest dole of all. What distinguishes jimjimeedja from the more, um, ‘mature’ forms of wingnut welfare is that they’ve let their danglers hang out. The Scaife-Olin-Bradley stuff is a bit more subtle.
I guess they really thought the Faux Spews business model would work for them. They fail to realize that Faux supports its political wing via all the T&A crap sitcoms that the Family Research Council gets it’s panties in a wad about occassionally. That, and sports programming, plus crappy newspapers. Perhaps if PJM could just start a co-branded pay-for-pron website, they’d have enough to keep paying the bloggers. Waddayasay Pammy, a little “acting” for the cause?
Indeed. He made the fatal mistake of being honest to them, telling them that they were on the dole. And here they thought they were paragons of the free market.
Though really, deep down they knew they were on the dole — or wingnut welfare as we call it — they’re just upset that, as the latecoming stragglers to the wingnut-welfare system, they’re not getting the million-dollar book deals and paydays handed out to talk-radio schlubs and the various graduates of the Olin- and Scaife- and Bradley-funded sheltered workshops known as “think tanks”. And since in an economic downturn last hired is first fired, they were on the chopping block.
In the sequel, Embargoing Myself, Rog will tell of how his courageous decision to write a book about his courageous decision to wet his pants after 9/11 (which left him with nothing to wear but his footies, leaving him alone and friendless in liberal Hollywood) kept him alone and friendless in the publishing publicizing world, with nothing to do but plug his book on the Pajamas TV
scamsite.This whole PJM thing is trickle-down at its finest. When times were flush, it was fine to spread a few pennies around to the D-list. Now with times tough, no more trickling. A thing of beauty.
Inasmuch as the PJ blogs, with the exception of John Cole’s Balloon Juice, all had the same opinion variously expressed on any given topic I’m surprised that they lasted this long. A whirl through the PJ blogs was always a visit to the Department of Redundancy Department. Wonder how long it will take for these jokers to realize that Regnery isn’t going to publish their books either.
So that’s how Jeff Goldstein funded his stay-at-home bad role model gig. I wonder what he’ll do now for employment.
I’m guessing that it will involve truck stops and airport restrooms.
GOING to be?
I’m delirious already.
Yes, because blogs have a helluva time getting advertisers and making money. I mean, most companies want nothing to do with blogs, so I can’t imagine anyone making money off of them.
Oh, wait …
You know, for a bunch of people who support unfettered free markets and put businesses before human beings, a lot of folks on the right sure don’t seem to understand how the hell capitalism actually works.