Gawker starts the year with industry leading cynicism.
Posted on 03. Jan, 2010 by Simon in Internet, media
Finding this image made my day amazing.
In this case perhaps, the dour snark is warranted as the site presents its Gawker Guide to a Journalism career, 2010 Edition.
Predictably equal parts sardonic and sadistic, there are some gem one liners that are painfully funny only because they are painfully true. To wit:
As newspapers and magazines desperately lay off talented people, the more established online precincts are scooping them up. Gawker is now a more stable employer than Conde Nast! Which is probably a bad sign!
Perhaps the only thing more hilarious than the article’s nuclear conclusion that any unemployed journalist right now should just go on a five-year sabbatical are the comments by the readers, many of whom are apparently unemployed journalists.
Got to give it to us at least — unlike layed off auto-workers, out of work writers can make woe-is-me more entertaining than Paris Hilton at the Vatican.
