Filed under: Journalism, Wonkette, Alex Pareene, Gawker, Nick Denton
The big news this weekend that a whopping three editors, including the managing editor, quit Nick Denton’s flagship Gawker Media blog empire, has left former Wonkette editor Alex Pareene up a tree without a parachute. Pareene, you’ll recall, was run out of Washington after his affair with a married female was revealed on Big Head DC. Denton looked kindly on him (maybe because Denton is known for some strange affairs of his own), and let him start quietly snarking in NYC at Gawker. But, with the departure of a majority of its editorial staff, Denton has now announced that he wants to re-fashion the site as a news disseminator — not a snark regurgitator. Yet, Pareene was well-known for saying at Wonkette that he was not a journalist, and he didn’t want to be. Should we expect another departure soon?
Is anyone else starting to feel bad for the kid?
nope.
Please, someone, explain the reference to why Pareene is sucking on a cell phone in that picture, which BHDC often posts. I don’t get it.
Is that the kid from Saved By the Bell?
No, he’s a phone sex operator when he’s not living at Denton’s SoHo ranch.
Oh, yes, I think I dialed his number by accident one night!
Sometimes I accidentally dial the DC Madam when I’m trying to order Pizza Hut! My old boss Lloyd Grove turned me on to Pizza Hut.
That’s funny, Anne. I gave my phone number out to all of my relatives and, it turns out, I was off by one digit. They called that same slut service by accident for years.
OMG. I heard that happened to Sam Donaldson, too!
His mom is a MILF — can we get more pics of her instead?
[…] BigHeadDC reports: […]
[…] In yet another aesthetically unpleasing redesign (this year alone), Nick Denton, publisher of Wonkette, has decided to change the site. With its numbers dropping dramatically since Ana Marie Cox left to work for Time almost two years ago, Denton doesn’t seem to understand that it’s not the background fonts, colors and graphics that are the problem. It’s the writers he’s chosen to replace Cox. Starting with Alex Pareene and continuing through to the latest new batch of editors, they don’t really seem to know or care what they’re writing about. They’re just trying to get page views, since that’s the way they get bonuses, and the site is hurting because of it. […]
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