Jason King to Bleacher Report

Can't believe they didn't simply promote a bunch of the people that blogged for them.

 

Imagine how pissed you be if you spent 5 years SEO raping for free on their behalf, helping make the original owner $250 million, and when the money started finally going to the writers, they wouldn't even give you a look.

 

The question is not whether or not they hired from within (they did, there are plenty of us who worked up through the ranks and are now full-time). We exist. I think, therefore I am. All that...

No, the question is whether or not any of you would care if they put our names in a press release. You wouldn't, so they don't.

Probably even more under-the-radar, however, is that a lot of the one-time top writers on the site—kids who were college interns, or working the newsdesk as our first full-time paid staff—are now editors. Two associate NFL editors started as unpaid writers. I personally worked with one of our NBA assistant editors when he was interning while at UMass. Another former writing intern is in charge of community/moderation. Our video staff is stacked similarly.

Cream rises to the top—that was always the "promise" associated with B/R. Are there people that wanted a bigger piece of the pie that wasn't there for them? Sure. But I hate when it's painted as some sort of either/or. Mike Freeman and I work side-by-side, and we've only had one gladiatorial-style deathmatch once...and that was completely our choice.

 

It's a new day. Nobody owes you anything. You work for two weeks, they pay you, and then the relationship begins for another two weeks. That's freakin' it. Or, if you are a blogger being paid $2 for every 1,000 page views of your blog, you pull out your calculator at the end of the month and tally your take.

Besides, if I am Bleacher Report, and I am looking to make a big credibility splash, then sorry, I don't promote the bloggers who were making $2 for every 1,000 page views. It's just business, and it often ain't pretty.