Wolcott (here and here) is all over David Corn for agreeing to join the editorial board of the odious Pajamas Media, future web home for war hacks not yet indicted. Like Michael Ledeen. Corn’s response makes it clear that he has no idea what he’s getting into: “I look forward to a new Internet enterprise that seeks to promote varying views, even if the idea came from conservatives.” Well, as Wolcott says,
Does Corn really want to be associated with fun blogs like Little Green Footballs and Gates of Vienna (“At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war”)? I guess he does, because he’ll be appearing on a panel at Pajamas’ gala conference in November in Manhattan, where Roger L. Simon and company will break out the ginger ale and announce their new monicker. Then everybody will adjourn to invade Syria, if they can arrange transportation.The weird thing about Pajamas Media is that it doesn’t even know what it wants to be when, if ever, it grows up. Originally, it was an idea for right-winger and warblogs to make money selling advertising, but they appear to have jettisoned their advertising guys — one of whom fortunately blogs so that we can read the entertaining story of that backstabbing. (Also see the links here – Blowing the cover off Top Secret Pajamas Media Foreign Correspondents.) They claimed to be the “New Media” but the keynote speaker for their New York City gala launch party is none other than Old Media icon Judy “The Aspen Roots of WMD” Miller, who possibly works for the New York Times, which last I checked, was almost the definition of Old Media, according to the New Media.
Well, PJM’s launch party is two weeks away, so they have plenty of time to decide what they are before that. Meantime, a competitor has apppeared on the blog-aggregation scene! Meet Lingere Media:
LINGERE Media is a new blogging venture designed to bring together some of the internet’s more obvious fast-buck artists and will hopefully cobble together a single source that will, in our dreams, complement and re-define journalism in the 21st century, which we can then unload on a gullible public via a stock offering. Upon its official debut in November 2005, LINGERE Media will feature content from over 300, no 70, no 150, no, make it 70 half-assed bloggers. The company was founded in 2004 by acclaimed accountant and blogger Dennis The Peasant and Cletus Barnwell, cesspool manager, hog calling champion, and author of the blog What Smell?With that extensive roster of Quality Bloggers only thing Lingerie Media needs to catch up is to announce a grandiose launch party keynoted by a noted failure in their field! Maybe Scooter Libby is free.