Shots Across The Bow

Brittney Quits; World Weeps

As you may have already surmised from the post title, I'm not going to join in the wailing and gnashing of teeth surrounding the departure of Brittney from Nashville is Talking.

Let's take a quick reality check here folks;

1. Brittney was getting paid to blog. Most of us, myself included, are paying for the right to do what she got paid to do.
2. She quit her paying gig. She wasn't fired. She wasn't run out. She wasn't told she had to change her style. She didn't leave out of some high minded campaign to keep pure her ideological point of view a la Knoxville's Tom Sullivan. She quit because she was burned out, and she didn't like the negative feedback she was getting, even though by her own admission, she received what she gave.
3. She hasn't quit blogging! She's just not getting paid for it anymore.

So why the tears? She's still blogging, still doing what she likes, but now she's doing it when and where she wants. Sorry, I just don't feel the blogosphere trembling beneath me. I say good for her for doing what makes her happy,and I wish her all the best as she continues to blog on her own time.

And a quick aside to any Knoxville TV or radio stations; if you want to try and duplicate the NiT experiment, I'll make you this promise. If you pay me to do what I'm doing now for free, people can call me whatever they want and I'll keep 'em coming back for more.

Posted by Rich at June 8, 2007 5:58 PM | TrackBack