<![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> I'm sorry -- so why, exactly, did Jordan get fired? Anyone? Bueller?

donmiguel

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> @BartKela: Amusingly, I'm betting that icon face Owen is using for his comments is actually how he views himself.

Always has come across as a bit of an arse, this just reinforces it.

I suppose Jordan mightve been making him a bit insecure...best of luck finding a new job bro. Just remember to put Owen's parting insult on your resume. A diss on the way out from Gawker is viewed as a + in the rest of the journalistic world. ;)

DJCarbon43

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> For the geographically retarded, 'Valley' = the 650 and 408, not you car-less heathens in SF.

Eric Rice

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> It's kind of brutal to get a bonus for a memo firing someone, no?

raincoaster

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> @Jordan Golson: Are you saying that each pageview earns sixth-tenths of a cent?

That would mean that today's Top Five Stories earned $38?!?

BartKela

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> Paul:
I must decline your job offer. As you noted when we met, I could be the greatest Valley insider if I traded info for gambling debts. Unfortunately, my bottom-line-oriented employer objected my proposal. Violently. I'll be OK eventually.

bbucy

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@BartKela:

How about that? $12!

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Jordan Golson

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> @Owen Thomas: Based on the pageview count, crushingly boring appears to be amazingly popular.

BartKela

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> @crasher: Agreed. The only thing I regret about Paul publishing my memo is how crashingly boring you all must find it.

Owen Thomas

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> Since we're already in Soap Opera territory, will the actor that played Jordan come back with an eye-patch, playing his separated-at-birth twin? That would rock.

godospoons

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> @fishneversleep: Put some Bono shades on him and he looks like Boutin

Jordan Golson

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> @Annalee Newitz: Speaking of the ass kicking capabilities of Gawker Media's writers and editors, I would pay good money to see you and Owen go at it with pole axes, Star Trek style (see below). Owen's got 1960s era Kirk hair, and no offense, but you've totally got the vulcan-look going on. Who would be McCoy?

+ Watch video

fishneversleep

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> damnit, that image thing didn't work. i may yet buy the bastard that t-shirt though.

fishneversleep

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@Paul Boutin: Conclusion: Gawker eats everything, young old, rich, poor... everything except Owen "Sweater Bear" Thomas (pictured, left).

fishneversleep

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> @categorically: Yeah, no one will admit to reading Melissa's "how to manage your hooker" posts, but she gets all the page views. Quite a mystery.

fishneversleep

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> jordan was one of the non-negative parts of valleywag. denton should just fire owen. i think that would raise site traffic quite a bit. images like the one above scare both young and old.

jasonoliver

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> Gawker eats its Olds, too.

Paul Boutin

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> Now who will read Twitter so we don't have to, Owen?

Blackjack

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> Jordan was one of the best part of Valleywag. We'll see how Melissa does, but I usually ignore her stuff.

categorically

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> @FlakJack: Gawker Media eats its young. :-(

jackparsons

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> Writing destined-for-leakage emails that include "I've fired X and it was probably overdue" in the first graf doesn't seem like it does much to help a guy's chances for gainful employment. Is responding to Gasbag McArrington worth giving Golson a wedgie on his way out the door?

Maybe you can write him a LinkedIn recommendation that reads "I fired Jordan and I probably waited too long to do it. He knows why."

FlakJack

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> No Jordan in exchange for more Paul and Melissa? Deal.

DeltaGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> Yeah, Jordan wasn't bad. WTF?!

Oh No I Di'n't.

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> Oooh, more posts from Melissa. Those will surely cover all of those three bullet points:

* News of the day that's virile to the valley
* Giving readers insideriness... lets not go there
* Telling the story of the valley through anything in the sex industry tenuously connected to the valley.

That seems easier.

m-c

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> @WagCurious: Jackson West kicks Jordan's ass. I mean, as a writer. I don't know about literal asses.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> You know what would make for great copy? If Owen reconsidered and brought him back, but for less money per post. And then Jordan could write critical stories about Owen, kinda like the bad guy on a soap opera. They do this on the soaps all the time! Err, so they tell me.

WagCurious

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> "someone with deep Valley sources and a passion for Valleywag's mission"?

That's the kind of job description details Valleywag would be the first to laugh hard about :)

robinwauters

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> Jordan was a really, really, really good writer. Is there some other metric that you guys use to evaluate your writers? I mean seriously, we get Jackson West in place of him? That's like getting a guy that cannot play baseball in place of Mickey Mantel.

WagCurious

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> What a lame e-mail.

Grow a pair, Owen!

MarkTheMarketWatcher

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> I have to agree with Paul on this begging to be leaked. Why else would Owen take such an obvious shot at Techcrunch?

"Telling the story of the Valley as a human one, not as a series of dry tech trends or stock tips"

sample032

]]> <![CDATA[Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward]]> can you cover the news that's vital to the valley instead? thanks.

* Covering the news of the day that's vital to the Valley - artfully, distinctively, and completely

crasher

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