Can't Joe The Plumber Get 'Em Out Of S#!T?

The Pajamas Media ad network, which fringe-right bloggers attached themselves to in search of a paycheck for the dreck they write, will go belly-up at the end of March. I knew they should have stuck to selling flag lapel pins!

From the Village Voice:

Pajamas Media, a consortium of mostly rightbloggers, was founded in 2005. Its "eventual goal," reported National Review at the time, was "to replace the established media sources with a network of what [co-founders Charles Johnson and Roger L. Simon] call 'citizen-journalists.'" They felt good about their chances; after all, said Simon, referring to Johnson, "You're sitting four feet away from the guy who ended Dan Rather's career." (If you don't remember who Dan Rather is, you can read the Wikipedia entry.)

Pajamas Media has retained a hard-on for the "MSM," its fans' preferred acronym for professional media outlets. In November Pajamas correspondent Kenneth Anderson told readers what was wrong with the online operations of the hated MSM flagship, the New York Times. Anderson said the Times facilitated "online cocooning of its smugly elite audience by 'journalists' whose task is not to spend time digging out new, expensive, and quite possibly important facts, but instead to create, care, stroke, tend, and feed little online forums where they interact with readers and create little communities of the like-minded."

Anderson did not seem to realize that his description far more accurately applies to Pajamas Media. While the Times continues to share actual news with its online readers, Pajamas mostly eschews this -- except for adventures like the fanciful "reporting" of Joe the Plumber in Israel -- in favor of citizen opinion journalism via a number of affiliated blogs, who were cut in for a piece of the revenues via the Pajamas network.

"Affiliated blogs" such as the one run by Queen of Eye-Rolling Indignation Michelle Malkin, among other carbon-copy jingoistic scolds, Palin fetishists and delusional dangers to themselves.

It looks like Pajamas Media ad revenue is just another right-wing "eventual goal" unrealized, sort of like keeping an abstinence-only Alaskan teenager in school, off Oxy and childless.