Print journalism and punditry are officially dead, because Richard Wolffe killed them. He has quit his job at Newsweek and will go work for Public Strategies, the PR outfit helmed by Dan Bartlett that also employs our beloved sad cowboy Mark McKinnon. Basically, any journalist who is sufficiently competent to pen a press release is fleeing to PR now because there are no news/media jobs of any sort left anymore, except at Wonkette, the NAMBLA house blog. [Austin Business Journal]
Richard Wolffe Sells Out
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“… Wonkette, the NAMBLA house blog …”
so, when will the t-shirts be offered?
Does that mean no more elistist British pooves on with KO anymore??? Oh noes!!!
Face it guys: Wonkette is the Fourth Estate.
[re=278543]qwerty42[/re]: Isn’t it candy that usually gets offered?
Really, it must be a slow news day, because who the fuck cares? Guy looks like a douche, also.
It’s not like going from hack to flack is that much of a stretch for most of the MSM. This is just a tad more up front honest, no?
[re=278544]teebob2000[/re]: KO and our beloved Rachel do have tendencies toward filling their respective hours with journalist chat-fest/circle-jerks. So this guy will be replaced by, oh who cares? Some other left-friendly teevee wannabe.
Whereas Fox News is out there covering the story, ha ha ha.
i’m kind of going to miss his goofy face and british accent on countdown.
[re=278553]Red Zeppelin[/re]: And he looks nothing like Marlon Brando.
Ok, I’m officially miffed. To recap today’s exciting news:
–a journalist changed jobs
–a car was parked
–a restaurant opened
–trees bloomed
Why am I perturbed? Because I duly alerted the lizard people who monitor tips@wonkette of the REAL news of the day: Someone ripped Vlad Lenin a new one. From the BBC, we learn, “One of Russia’s most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear.” They even have a nice silly picture of the gaping new anus. So, harumph.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7976883.stm
[re=278568]user-of-owls[/re]: Hey, I told tips@wonkette.com yesterday about Miss Universe’s memorably vapid blog of her visit to Gitmo. It’s so hard to get published these days!
[re=278568]user-of-owls[/re]: Also, Putin’s
dog ate everybody’s lunch.
[re=278568]user-of-owls[/re]: On that OT note. Method Man was “too high” to pay his back taxes.
http://www.thecelebritycafe.com/features/26065.html
All kidding aside, it would be awesome if you could get Helen Thomas to guest blog one day.
[re=278549]Serolf Divad[/re]: I’ll take the Fifth.
Wait, weren’t you cheering over the demise of Tree-killing News Organs of Gloom earlier? Video Organs of Gloom are the next to go.
They’re still printing Newsweek?
[re=278575]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: Kev-O! Long time. Sup, dood?
No one reads tips@wonkette, btw.
I will miss his triangular head on KO and the way he icily says “Thank you, Keith” at the end of all of his segments. This has got to be an April Fool’s joke because suddenly, I has a sad.
“Better to sell out today than to be liquidated tomorrow” he stated, as he liberally applied his custom fragrance, which was made with bits of real nightsaber.
[re=278586]magic titty[/re]: No one reads tips@wonkette, btw. Does that surprise you? It takes too long to filter out all the email tips of “OMG, OBAMA IS IN LONDON!!!”
The alt text makes an excellent point – how is he going to fill an entire hour now? Chris Hayes will really need to step up his game.
[re=278586]magic titty[/re]: Oh, just surviving in the bitter cold and SNOWY Northwest. I finally got a call about a new job. I’m heading to an interview at a four star hotel here at 3 PM. Wish me luck!
Print Journalism will never die! You’ll have to pry the High Times from my cold, dead hands.
[re=278568]user-of-owls[/re]: I second your miffedness. That is an amazing photo. I don’t think it was a bomb, though. The old son of a bitch just farted.
Wonkette is the NAMBLA house blog?! What happened to chickenhawker.blogspot.com?
[re=278586]magic titty[/re]: That explains much.
They’re changing the name to “Newsweak” any day now. But the industry’s “problem” isn’t technology; it’s awful, awful management and fatcat hacks. Bloomberg showed how using technology right leads to bigger profits; he cleaned Dow Jones’ clock when they thought they were a monopoly on biz info and made hisself a billion. If only old, degenerate media baron Lord Wonkette would divest himself of this site!!
The problem is that without newspapers, most tv folks won’t have anything to talk about. Except Rick Sanchez and lemonhead.
[re=278588]Fivetree[/re]: Aww…I haz a sad too. He’s actually funny sometimes.
The word “flack” doesn’t begin to cover it. Did you delve into the Website? This organization Wolffie joined is owned by WPP, led by Wolffie’s new Overlord, Martin Sorrell. Sorrell started his empire fewer than 25 years ago when he bought a stake in Wire and Plastic Products Plc , a UK manufacturer of wire baskets(!). Since then he has acquired, among MANY others, Hill & Knowlton, Ogilvy & Mathers, and J. Walter Thompson (through a hostile takeover). They currently “partner” with Dell and have joint ventures with Google, thereby putting their fingers into the very computer on which I type this. According to Wiki, his personal motto is, “Act British, think Yiddish.”
And yet, read the Website of Public Strategies, Inc. Wonkette has a challenger in the goofiness department. If 10th graders made up a PR company, they’d have a more sophisticated online presence than this. And Wolffie thought life on McCain’s Bus to Nowhere was weird …
[re=278596]Godless Liberal[/re]: That’s easy. “MSNBC Presents 120 minutes of Rachel Maddow…with her sidekick, Keith Olbermann.”
But who’s going to be Olbermann’s guest now ? I guess he’ll have to double book Turley.
[re=278709]gjdodger[/re]: I would happily watch such a show. In fact, I would greatly prefer it to the current format, and I like KO just find.
[re=278598]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: BELLBOY!
[re=278558]sarcasticusername[/re]: …and his dewey-eyed, slow drawled, “Good evening, Keithmmmmmm”.
[re=278588]Fivetree[/re]: You, too? I’m buying.
Did this guy ever say anything important? I always get distracted by his giant head.
there are no news/media jobs of any sort left anymore, except at Wonkette, the NAMBLA house blog.
There is a difference?
[re=278568]user-of-owls[/re]: It is easy to see who is responsible. When it comes to violence and anuses, usually Rush Limbaugh is involved.
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