{"id":192960,"date":"2009-01-31T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/31\/people-make-a-living-at-this\/"},"modified":"2009-01-31T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T00:37:00","slug":"people-make-a-living-at-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/31\/people-make-a-living-at-this\/","title":{"rendered":"People Make a Living At This???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me rephrase: <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;\" >Really Stupid<\/span> People Make a Living At This???<\/p>\n<p>Because it appears that Pajamas Media, a sort of Blogads for right wingers blew through its venture capital, and has told its bloggers that it is dumping them, because the next big thing is, &#8220;Internet television called Pajamas TV,&#8221; for which even stupider people will actually pay to listen to right wingers with faces made for radio.<\/p>\n<p>The soon-to-be former members of Pajamas Media, such as Jeff G. of Protein Wisdom, are in full whine:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>What this means is that as of April 1, I am officially out of work. So save going to a pay model, this site will likely have to shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Small price to pay for helping PJM pick up an audience and credibility during its \u201cformative years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do this blog mostly to make regular notes for my annual newsletter (it&#8217;s about 5% of the content), and I&#8217;ve gotten a bit of money from Google ads,  a $107.24 check in October, and I&#8217;ve been blogging since May, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that someone could make a living at this is just a complete mind f%$#.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/tbogg.firedoglake.com\/2009\/01\/30\/roger-simon-is-pretty-much-a-back-stabbing-douche-so-this-was-probably-inevitable\/\">TBogg<\/a>, for letting me know that, &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Nobody could have anticipated that Pajamas Media would sucker the rubes and then destroy teh intertubes<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me rephrase: Really Stupid People Make a Living At This??? Because it appears that Pajamas Media, a sort of Blogads for right wingers blew through its venture capital, and has told its bloggers that it is dumping them, because the next big thing is, &#8220;Internet television called Pajamas TV,&#8221; for which even stupider people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,997,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}