http://mathewingram.disqus.com/enSun, 13 Jan 2008 09:24:02 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/12/gawker-continually-jumping-the-snark/#comment-75215I'm not sure about that. It's true that Denton doesn't seem all that<br>attached to his employees, but the sites I read regularly --<br>Valleywag, Idolator, Gizmodo and Kotaku -- seem to still have more<br>half-decent posts than not. It'll be interesting to see how that<br>changes with the new compensation scheme.mathewiSun, 13 Jan 2008 09:24:02 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/12/gawker-continually-jumping-the-snark/#comment-75057The problem with Gawker, and Gawker Media as a whole, is that Denton doesn't care about his employees. This is more than easily seen when actually <em>talks</em> about his employees. Denton cares about his PVs and his money and getting it his way, ethics or professionalism be damned!<br><br>On the whole, most Gawker Media sites' quality of writing has been in sharp decline in stark contrast to their pageviews continually going up. With such an ongoing fresh crop of readers, very few people realize how bad the writing has actually gotten and how little <strong>anyone</a> on a Gawker Media site actually writes anything other than being a press release-repeating, RSS-feed-regurgitating machine. It's paying the bills but it's not doing a thing for their credibility.</strong>jwestfallSun, 13 Jan 2008 01:07:00 -0000