You may recall that a few days ago Roy Subrosa was mocking Jeff for complaining about the termination of “wingnut welfare” in the form of PJM ad network revenues, Roger having supplied them with this peculiar characterization of the business relation between the network and its contractees. I wrote about it at the time, here. On the same day, the Voice terminated its contracts with several writers, including Nat Hentoff. Now it turns out that Village Voice employees may have been involved in boosting traffic stats to online Voice properties by gaming Digg.
I got the story from Kevin Williamson at NRO’s Media blog, who in turn got it from Romanesko.
Earlier today I had some fun with Wolly, but on the whole he’s an amusing fellow, the sort with whom it’s possible to swap cartoons of one another in a not overly mean-spirited way, and if we were 86ed from the same party I can imagine having a few Zombies with him at the Copacabana and sharing views on Sully’s vaginal speleology hobby and Lester Bangs. Roy Subrosa, on the other hand, is a mere imbecile, who works for a what seems a cheating shitheel organization that files claims for more dependents on its welfare forms than it has in truth, and thinks that’s clever.
The DEETs article is a nice bit of investigation. Please read it closely.
Wow, what a pack of sleazeballs.
Is there anything more greedy and unethical than a leftist?
I would like to say I’m shocked people are defending what the Village Voice did, but I’m not at all.
Well, some of them are “journalists”, pp, and I’m no longer shocked at anything those guys do.
Nice. Like a newspaper delivering to houses that don’t subscribe and including those in circulation figures
I remeber this Disney comic story. Scrooge McDuck visits Granny, and her barn is freshly painted and there is an ad for soup on the roof. Granny tells him that this company will do that if there are enough people driving past. Scrooge goes to a farm he owns and sees that few people drive past, so he races his car around the barn and clicks the counter line.
The painters start painting the barn and note the tire tracks looping the barn, going over the counter. They finish painting the barn, but choose which ad will be painted on it. The ad says “Scrooge McDuck is a Chintz.”
Village Voice online people are chintzes.
If this is an ethical business practice, then the VV won’t mind that link being forwarded to all their local advertisers, right?
I don’t ever go to Digg. I think it’s kind of nice in concept but dorky in practice. Kind of like Secret Santa.
Hard to say. It’s rather amusing to see the people who claim to despise “hypocrisy” above all else showing such deep wells of hypocrisy themselves.
I’m beginning to wonder if all their positions are based on projection.
Sorry Dan,
But I don’t see much remarkable here. It’s just another example of some slacker proggy/leftists that are gaming the system with self-serving intent…
It’s what they’re taught in school instead of, you know, useful sunjects…
I mean, I’m sure they’re somehow entitled to this faux interest driven traffic…
The way I look at this whole story, apart from the PJM story from earlier this week, it is simply an outgrowth of the same ACORN style tactics that were used to game the electoral system…
How appropriate that the story is from Minnesota; the state where more people voted in the Senatorial contest, between Coleman and that jackass Franken, than were actually registered in the precincts…Funny isn’t it?
It’s all part of the situational ethics that our youth are taught these days. If not counterbalanced by the instlling of real values by the parents and close family, well then that’s what they grow up believing is right. And since morlity is all relative, at least in the world to which they are indoctrinated, nobody is really doing anything wrong…
Disgusts me personally, but I don’t want to be all judgey like that; uniform morality, and especially honesty it seems, are OUT! in the age of O!…
They’re entitled to earn a living; by whatever means necessary!
Nothin’ to see here everybody…Just move along…
Drat…
sunjects=subjects
i wonder if sunjects are available at secret santa?
Sunject would make an excellent brand name for this stuff.
Vaginal spelunking? Jebus. Do they use those incredibly hot carbide head lamps? Do they find little white critters that have never seen the light of day? Do I find this mental image incredibly amusing?
It’s only amusing if there is an echo, Swen.
Just make sure you have a clew (classical sense 6). A tampon string just won’t do the job.
Only if you have Ariadne as a friend, SBP.
That dipshit Subrosa links me often, but it generates so little traffic I figured they have no readers.
I think the taint of WarbloggerWatch is following him around.
Plus, he’s just not nearly as clever as he pretends to be.