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KSK Blogger Fired by WaPo

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Hot and Rickety, Apr 17, 2008.

  1. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    You'd be surprised. If the Post says, "We're going to fuck you in every immaginable way possible as long as you try to stay employed here, and eventually we'll fire you, or you can walk away now" and you say, fine, I'm done, then you're still going to shuffled out by security. I've personally seen people walk into a top editor's office, tell him they were quitting for something better, and by the time they get back to their desk (100 yards) they're locked out of the system and have to gather their things because security is coming. It all comes down to how much you piss off the employer.

    Anyone else call b.s. on the claim that he earned as much blogging this year as he did at the Post? Post staffers, per their Guild contract, earn between $70,000 and $80,000, and that's on the low end. If KSK sold the site up front for $300,000 up front this year and split the kitty five ways, then I believe that. But right now, I seriously do not believe they have enough ads on their website to EACH be pulling in $75,000. And if Christmas Ape was earning that much, then Drew deserves to be making double that.
     
  2. Cousin Jeffrey

    Cousin Jeffrey Active Member

    You know we're in a new media age when you can write this sentence, and I understand, and perhaps agree (I like Ape's racist Hines Ward impression) with it:

    "And if Christmas Ape was earning that much, then Drew deserves to be making double that."
     
  3. Chi City 81

    Chi City 81 Guest

    KSK is saying he didn't quit.

    http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/2008/04/michael_tunison_has_a_bigger_dong_than_you.html
     
  4. Happened twice at my first paper, actually.
     
  5. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Then I defer to y'all. But I never have seen it.
     
  6. beardpuller

    beardpuller Active Member

    Which one of those guys does the Jerry Jones-Wade Phillips thing?
    That's usually really good. A lot of the rest of it is unreadable.
    But good luck to this guy. And you have to wonder if the Post isn't being shortsighted ... they have a guy who has been able to create a sizable audience online, and instead of finding a way to make that work for THEM, they want him out of there?
     
  7. Mighty_Wingman

    Mighty_Wingman Active Member

    Well, in fairness, the KSK guys have built their audience online with dick jokes, softcore porn and racist humor. It's all very well executed, of course, and I for one am a regular reader. But it's hard to imagine it working for the Washington Post.
     
  8. OnTheRiver

    OnTheRiver Active Member

    Well, in fairness, newspapers have tried everything else online. Why not give it a shot?
     
  9. beardpuller

    beardpuller Active Member

    It was a fleeting thought. I wasn't saying you could do KSK on the Post site. But funny is funny ... there might be a way to do PG-13 versions of some of that stuff.
     
  10. jgmacg

    jgmacg Guest

    http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003790987
     
  11. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Good God, where to start with this one?

    First, Downie and the rest of the Moral Editorial at the WP should take the afternoon off for a collective enema, the better to clear their thought processes.

    Second, schedule a staff outing to the home store for a supply of rags with which to clean their glass house. They can talk about ethics and conflicts of interest when they stop accepting paid advertising.

    Third, since when can a paper claim control of an employee's free speech outside the office and off the clock? Unfathomably outrageous, I say.
     
  12. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    After reading that, and learning that he was essentially a editorial assistant/clerk/occasional reporter, I'd like to reduce my salary guess by half. And also speculate that he wasn't a member of the guild, so they could can him whenever they wanted.
     
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