Check it out. Jalopnik - slave to the "Unique Page View" and thus, increasingly prone to tabloid pseudo-journalism - decides to play pot-calls-kettle-black as they make snarky digs at aol.
Check it out. Jalopnik - slave to the "Unique Page View" and thus, increasingly prone to tabloid pseudo-journalism - decides to play pot-calls-kettle-black as they make snarky digs at aol.
I don't know what you are referencing. The link is to a picture from Hooniverse...
Have you been drinking?
Nope. Never do. The link is fixed.
Here's my complaint:
Jalopnik posts drivel like "Happiest woman alive rescues her cat after 16-day burial in tornado debris" (i.e. stuff that has absolutely ZERO newsworthy automotive content) in an effort to drive up page views. They know this will work because warm fuzzy stuff like that gets linked to from all over the internet. This brings in lots of people who won't ever read jalopnik regularly, but they don't care if it boosts their page views.
There's nothing wrong with them choosing to say, "To hell with automobiles, our commenters and community, we're chasing the new and shiny." The problem is that they then make snarky comments about other sites doing the same thing. (So what if AOL's car site is light on car content and trying to drive traffic with cute girls? Jalopnik has done this many times before.)
Okay...better.
(I didn't mean to imply anything by the drinking comment.)
I noticed the "cat lady" story also. WTH does that have to do with automobiles?
Jalopnik is pseudo-journalism.
Jalopnik jumped the shark a few years ago, its been in a grotesque decline since then.
After the redesign I started going to Jalopnik's Canada site because it stuck with the old design. However, that page frequently got stuck on February 23 for no reason I can figure out--half the time you'd get new content; half the time you'd see what they had up on 2-23. I finally gave up on the site completely because it's become nothing but a content farm linking to stories on other websites. There's virtually no unique content at Jalopnik anymore, and I won't reward them profiting off the work of others.
I also used to read Gizmodo, and I'm done with them, too. Gawker deserves to go out of business.
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