I have left Jalopnik (Page 3 of 4)

Something certainly seems to have changed abruptly over at jalop, last week the comments were the usual entertaining and intelligent writing, this week all of a sudden bang, they're full of flaming idiocy and willful sexism. I'm *pretty* sure it wasn't always like that and I just missed it?

Also just unfriended Jalopnik on FB. The site has gone seriously downhill in the past few months. All of the NSFW posts and photos and even titles are a big turnoff. I don't want to read the word PENIS on any website I use to browse at work. I frequently have this disgusting naked dude/fish thing in a banner on the left side of the screen. Its really disturbing.The quality of the commentariat has also dropped off significantly.

agreed; the comments were one of the great things about the site, but are quickly going downhill.  not quite at CNN level yet, but getting there.

at this point i feel like i'm wandering through a big crowd of strangers until i see someone with a red heart, and it's like "oh, hey!"

As someone who always wished they could "really" write, it also pains me to see everything going in the crapper. I hope someday you, your wife and others like you are rewarded for hanging on to their integrity for as long as possible.

+1. When AutoWeek up and decided to become AutoBiWeekly a couple years back, I decided to let my subscription lapse, in part because the new format eliminated the possibility of providing timely news items (like the racing coverage), but more because I felt like I was getting almost all of the stuff that wasn't timely from teh auto blogs, and most especially, from Jalopnik. But then they started cutting the interesting stuff -- I mean I lived for NPOCP and PCH when Phil was writing it on the weekdays -- but ever since he and Jonny both got shafted, I've grown less interested. This may just cut it for me.

If only AutoWeek were actually a weekly again...

I have a lot of empathy for you, Phil.

A long time ago, in a land far, far away, I wrote "real" content. I found out in a hurry that people don't want that any more. Reading is too hard. It's too difficult to place yourself in the writer's shoes and pull up some feelings that you haven't had for a while. I think most people would crap on Richard S Foster today, and he's one of the reasons I like to write about cars. I really wonder if any one actually reads the books they buy any more, or do they just buy them to say they were there when the book came out?

When I got offered a slot at CarDomain, I didn't know whether to scream, cry, or LOL. I'm lucky that my editor is a wickedly good guy and has a good handle on how to utilize the CD blog within the site as a whole. We have a good time over there - it's not a glamour gig, but it's fun and I never have to watch my back.

The whole path of journalism is downhill right now. I blame PowerPoint and Rupert Murdock. It's even affected the scientific community - look at ClimateGate. Those are my peeps, and they fell for the page count thing, too.

<-- has a date with an Alex Horowitz tonight, so she can have an intelligent conversation with her 11YO.

Me neither, but I just assumed nobody liked me. 

I unsubscribed Jalop from my RSS feed reader after "Ms. Motors" "Hello" post. Ugh. At least Autoblog still delivers good info...TTAC is worth reading occasionally (except for that tool bag, Baruth).

Boo! I liked the irreverence of Jalopnik - it sucks now.

I don't have any affiliation with the site, but www.hooniverse.com is pretty good.

I've bookmarked the new Murilee Martin - good luck with it!

Hooniverse was the first place I suspected Murilee posts to start showing up.  This was posted there today, though:

Wow......
Don't hate me, but I entered the contest...*cringes*
"Lessons From the Brazilian Hooniverse"
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I just read everything in this thread and now I feel like a wide eyed Amish kid out on rumspringa that just got mugged.  I saw all of this degredation happening at Jalopnik and I was sad.  I didn't find everything to be as entertaining.  Jalopnik is where I discovered Lemons and the updates and profiles were awesome.  I saw Johnny leave and I went boo, but at least he's still with Lemons.  And then Murilee left last week and I realized my weekends just got more free.  And then this contest...  I thought "Wow, I could help make it great again!  Bring more Lemons stuff back!  Make the weekends awesome."  Murilee is irreplaceable as weekend editor, but I thought I could give it a shot.  I started thinking of ideas for weekly features dealing with Lemons and other random yet interesting articles, but then....this thread.  You all are completely right about Jalopnik though.  I thought that I could make a difference if I won.  I realize now that I wouldn't be allowed to.
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I feel so naive now.....