Comments on: Career Opportunities

By: MarkD

MarkD — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:27:30 +0000

” … in the hopes that advertisers would start to cotton to blogs and we could possibly make a profit. Didn’t happen.
–themanwhosucks”

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.

By: JuliaGrey

JuliaGrey — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:41:09 +0000

The wingnut implosion over the coming years is going to be a joy to behold.

GOING to be?

I’m delirious already.

By: DennisSGMM

DennisSGMM — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:07:52 +0000

I’m guessing that it will involve truck stops and airport restrooms.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:55:57 +0000

So that’s how Jeff Goldstein funded his stay-at-home bad role model gig. I wonder what he’ll do now for employment.

By: DennisSGMM

DennisSGMM — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:54:53 +0000

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.

By: PaminBB

PaminBB — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:17:12 +0000

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.

By: captphealy

captphealy — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:00:55 +0000

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 ~~scam~~site.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:54:07 +0000

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.

By: StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop

StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:30:18 +0000

“Wait. You mean they were getting paid for an audience they had yet to create/attract? Huh.”

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?

By: pseudonymousinnc

pseudonymousinnc — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:23:48 +0000

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.