Gawking at Gawker
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The lens gets flipped and it's creative class war as New York Magazine looks at the Gawker empire. Chock full of stuff like: 'Its long been known to magazine journalists that theres an audience out there thats hungry to see the grasping and vainglorious and undeservedly successful (douchebags or asshats, in Gawker parlance) put in the tumbrel and taken to their doom.' Rage, rage against the rage of the creative underclass.
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The article is quite nuanced, looking at blogging, celebrity blogging, journalism and all that brings these things together and tears them apart in a way that is not completely unbiased, but mostly balanced.
The power play between bloggers and traditional print journalists is going to play out over the next five years or so. In the course of that inevitable evolution, some of the areas of conflict will smooth out. But one thing will never change: the constant jockeying for position.
I am, by the way, both a blogger and somebody with a lot of traditional print experience.
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