I've become vaguely confused by what's going on at Gawker lately. The ostensible logic of the
chair rearrangement a while back seemed to suggest that The Big G was moving away from insider media reportage (save that noise for the
New York Observer!) and shifting toward entertainment coverage (TMZ must be denied!). But this week we've seen long pieces on
David Remnick's / Tina Brown's New Yorker and some
wacky meta-meta coverage of the NYT Mag Consumed column. As I
suggested on Twitter the other day (ugh), Gawker has become almost impossible to read, so I should probably welcome whatever they're doing to mix it up.
The whole thing seems to be playing to a cast of about a dozen regular commenters now.
yes. "impossible to read" is exactly right. the new team was funny when they first arrived, but recently they've slipped down a slope into incomprehensibility.
The New Yorker piece was fucking great -- I haven't been regularly reading Gawker, but after that well written background info on something I do read regularly, I'm now going to peek back at Gawker a little more frequently.