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We'd really like to write up a big piece on the Inquirer and Daily News buyouts that were announced today.
OK, OK, we really don't want to write about the buyouts, but even if we did, there'd be no point: Dan McQuade at Philadelphia Will Do is all over it, like a blogger on Cindy Sheehan.
It's a sordid tale of soon-to-be unemployed writers and soon-to-be-copy-editing again Amanda Bennetts. The Inquirer wants to lose 75 staffers through the buyouts while the Daily News would like to cut 25 staff members. We're not sure if this applies to the Inquirer and Daily News bloggers, but that would be pretty cool if it did: with most big media outlets riding the blog train, we need something new and hilarious (and we don't think The Early Word counts). So, buyouts would be fun: not because we like seeing people lose their jobs, but because we like it when blogs are treated seriously.
So yeah, a buyout or a Pulitzer will humor us nicely.
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i'm doing my best to understand what you're saying in that post. Are you wishing we were laid off?
I...don't know where you got that.
Of course not.
I wonder how much you'd be rooting for your buddy Dan McQuade to get canned. Or are you?
Well, I know you are.
I'm not sure where exactly I'm rooting for someone to get canned, anyways. I'm just sort of amused that a blogger could be bought out, just because it may be the first time that ever happens.
Not rooting, not salivating over someone being unemployed - just trying to have a little fun with a blog post.
Plus, ya'll ignoring that I'd be equally happy with a blog being awarded a Pulitzer. I'm totally rooting for Dan McQuade AND Dan Rubin to get one of those.
Well, I'm not.
"We're not sure if this applies to the Inquirer and Daily News bloggers, but that would be pretty cool if it did" - that's where you're rooting for people to get canned.
That you'd be happy with a blog receiving a Pulitzer isn't the rediculous claim. That you'd be equally happy with writers, who also blog, being fired, that's rediculous. As far as I know Dan Rubin is the only full-time blogger, all the rest are splitting time writing for the paper and for their blogs.
Albert, have you ever considered that they're both ridiculous claims? What with me saying they're equal and all at the end of my post.
I don't like seeing people lose their jobs, and rather than be all sappy, I'd rather be playful about blogs being bought out. As a writer who does a lot of his writing for free, I find it kind of amusing/dreamy.
John, have you ever considered that blogs winning Pulitzers is not a rediculous claim? Times are changing.
Times are changing, eh? So, apparently, is the spelling of ridiculous.
Listen, you take the blogosphere seriously, that's fine. You're protective of it. I think people take it a little too seriously, I'm playful with it. I think that's fine, too.
I think you're treating this issue too lightly.
But hey, okay, you continue to play. Stay where you are. Have fun.
I'm not treating it lightly at all. I think it's terrible that 100 people will lose their jobs. It's terrible that any hard working person loses his or her job. But it's also a reality of most businesses, especially the newspaper business which is facing a loss of profits from things like...internet media!
People react to bad news differently. Some are angry, some are sad, some are happy, some are snarky. I have the unfortunate latter afflicition.
Saying "A blog could win a Pulitzer" is equal to saying "A movie could win Super Bowl MVP," albert. Since the Pulitzer is a NEWSPAPER award and not given to blogs, I don't think any blog will be winning one anytime soon.